Primary and Secondary Education During Covid-19 : Disruptions to Educational Opportunity During a Pandemic

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910500587103321
• Autore: Reimers Fernando M
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, : Springer International Publishing AG, 2021
• ISBN: 3-030-81500-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (467 p.)
• Soggetti: Education; Educational strategies & policy; Study & learning skills: general; Organization & management of education; Ensenyament a distància; Telecomunicació en l'ensenyament; Política educativa; Pandèmia de COVID-19, 2020-; Llibres electrònics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- 1 Learning from a Pandemic. The Impact of COVID-19 on Education Around the World -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Goals and Significance of this Study -- 1.3 A Stylized Global Summary of the Facts -- 1.4 The Backdrop to the Pandemic: Enormous and Growing Inequality and Social Exclusion -- 1.5 The Pandemic and Health -- 1.6 The Pandemic, Poverty, and Inequality -- 1.7 Readiness for Remote Teaching During a Pandemic -- 1.8 What are the Short-term Educational Impacts of the Pandemic? -- 1.9 Methods -- References; 2 Experiences with Risk-Management and Remote Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil: Crises, Destitutions, and (Possible) Resolutions -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Education and Its Discontents with COVID-19 in Brazil: When the Wave of Uncertainty Hits the Hardest, Risk-Management Needs to Be in Place -- 2.3 The Loss of Instructional Time and the Sense of Urgency to Mitigate COVID-19 ; Shocks -- 2.4 New Means of Instruction and Curriculum Reprioritization in the COVID-19 Context -- 2.5 The Variance of Responses Against COVID-19 and the Waning of Learning and Participation; 2.6 The Attempt to Gradually Reopen Schools to Avoid Further Losses: The Contentious Site of Education -- 2.7 Planting Seeds of Hope in Shaken Terrain: The Possibilities to Build a Future After a Traumatic Event -- Appendix -- References -- 3 The Fragility of the School-in-Pandemic in Chile -- 3.1 Education in Chile: Basic Context -- 3.2 Policies Adopted to Confront the Pandemic in Education -- 3.3 Effects of the Pandemic on the Educational Process and the Responses of Actors -- 3.4 The Fragility of the Experience of Schooling at Home -- 3.5 Final Reflections: Looking to the Post-pandemic School; Appendix 1 -- References -- 4 Experiences of Moving Quickly to Distance Teaching and Learning at All Levels of Education in Finland -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Finnish Education Context -- 4.3 Preconditions for Distance Teaching and Learning During the Pandemic -- 4.4 Organisation of Teaching and Learning During the Pandemic -- 4.5 School-Level Teaching and Learning Experiences During the Pandemic -- 4.6 Teacher, Principal and Student Well-Being During the Pandemic -- 4.7 Discussion -- References; 5 Covid-19 and Education on the Front Lines in Japan: What Caused Learning Disparities and How Did the Government and Schools Take Initiative? -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The COVID-19 Pandemic and Japan's Response -- 5.3 Home-Based Learning During the School Closure and MEXT's Policy Initiatives -- 5.3.1 Background: Japan's Education System -- 5.3.2 Disparity in Home-Based Learning During School Closure by School Type -- 5.3.3 Disparity in Home-Based Learning During School Closure by Prefecture -- 5.3.4 The GIGA School Initiative as the Policy Solution; 5.3.5 MEXT's Additional Supportive Policy Measures
• Sommario/riassunto: This open access edited volume is a comparative effort to discern the short-term educational impact of the covid-19 pandemic on students, teachers and systems in Brazil, Chile, Finland, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Spain, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. One of the first academic comparative studies of the educational impact of the pandemic, the book explains how the interruption of in person instruction and the variable efficacy of alternative forms of education caused learning loss and disengagement with learning, especially for disadvantaged students. Other direct and indirect impacts of the pandemic diminished the ability of families to support children and youth in their education. For students, as well as for teachers and school staff, these included the economic shocks experienced by families, in some cases leading to food insecurity and in many more causing stress and anxiety and impacting mental health. Opportunity to learn was also diminished by the shocks and trauma experienced by those with a close relative infected by the virus, and by the constrains on learning resulting from students having to learn at home, where the demands of schoolwork had to be negotiated with other family necessities, often sharing limited space. Furthermore, the prolonged stress caused by the uncertainty over the resolution of the pandemic and resulting from the knowledge that anyone could be infected and potentially lose their lives, created a traumatic context for many that undermined the necessary focus and dedication to schoolwork. These individual effects were reinforced by community effects, particularly for students and teachers living in communities where the multifaceted negative impacts resulting from the pandemic were pervasive. This is an open access book.