New educational needs an approach to the conditions of the educational system in times of social confinement

Abstract

The objective of this study was to identify the main needs detected by teachers in their own group of students during the social, preventive and compulsory isolation ordered by the National Government in March 2020. Teachers and managers from different educational levels belonging to the province of Mendoza, Argentina (n = 777). The qualitative results were worked on and analyzed from the answers to open questions and small narratives that give rise to the free expression of the participants. By means of the Grounded Theory, explanatory categories were constructed that allowed identifying needs that go beyond technological and connectivity restrictions, entering the economic, family, pedagogical and psycho-affective sphere of students from different educational contexts. These results constitute a first approximation to the conditions that the educational system faces in times of compulsory social confinement. In turn, they constitute a relevant input for the generation of knowledge about the educational reality in this time of pandemic and for decision-making at the institutional and provincial management level.