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

• Author: Reimers, Fernando M.
• Sonstige: Reimers, Fernando M.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (467 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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....

Table of Contents

• 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