Views of referents of educational institutions on education in pandemic

Abstract

This work is part of a wide research project wich aims to identify several problems (social, nutricional, educational, psychological) arising from the Preventive and Compulsory Social Isolation (ASPO) that affected child welfare in the districts of La Plata, Berisso and Ensenada, province of Buenos Aires. In this article, we focus specifically on recovering the voices of workers in the educational area, who worked in differents positions (teachers and school authorities), levels (initial, primary and secondary) and areas (state and private) during the ASPO. For this, semi-structured interviews were carried out that dealt with: the incidence of isolation in the work of teachers and managers; communication between educational institutions and families; the accomplishment of the scholastic tasks; the feedback from the teachers and the modes of evaluation. All this with the intention to inquire about the actions implemented by educational institutions to sustain pedagogic continuity and collect the reflections on the matter from the workers in the area. The aim is to contribute to the formulation of public policy and pospandemic strategies.