Uma docência entusiasmada: considerações de/sobre uma professora

The paper discusses teachers’ knowledge with the arrival of coronavirus pandemic, view of the need to know it better, as a condition to strengthen elementary education. The investigation intended to understand the meanings a Sociology teacher at elementary schools, who promoted the teaching-learning process, in 2020 and 2021, gave to her work and the professional knowledge she had previously built and/or mobilized when the classrooms became digital platforms and afterwards. The methodology, with a qualitative bias, consisted of monitoring online classes, producing a balance of knowledge and interviews, in the line of life history. The teacher used an amalgamation of all types of teachers’ knowledge to work aiming social transformation, which turned into a progressive methodology, focused on affectionate interaction with her students and mobilization for learning, which can be qualified as “enthusiastic”.