Researching Education During a Pandemic

According to Marjan Šimenc's article The role of technology in education and equal opportunities for students in the Covid-19 crisis, during school closure and the enforced use of technology, access to the internet suddenly and simultaneously meant access to education, and this became a fundame...

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Published in:Sodobna pedagogika 2021-01, Vol.72, p.264-10
Main Authors: Ermenc, Klara Skubic, Urbančič, Matej
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Distance learning
Educational research
Students
Teaching
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Summary:According to Marjan Šimenc's article The role of technology in education and equal opportunities for students in the Covid-19 crisis, during school closure and the enforced use of technology, access to the internet suddenly and simultaneously meant access to education, and this became a fundamental issue of equal opportunities. Students' opinions during the Covid-19 pandemic, the author uses anecdotal examples to show how big the decline in the quality of instruction and assessment was during the first school closure and how negative its effects were on equity, having deepened differences between students according to their socio-economic backgrounds. The author argues that the public open space offers a number of opportunities for informal learning and public pedagogy, it represents a space for building personal and community identities, for learning social rules, tolerance and joint action. In The challenges of school leadership in emergency situations, Jana Kalin, Klara Skubic Ermenc and Jasna Mažgon present the findings of their study conducted among primary- and secondary-school head teachers at the time of the school closure and the introduction of distance teaching in the spring of 2020.
ISSN:0038-0474