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Faced with the pandemic in which we find ourselves on a global scale, from the sociology of education we have coordinated an exploratory study that\u00a0has just been published<\/a>\u00a0and which pays special attention to the voice of educational and social agents.<\/p>\n It is about knowing how they are perceiving and experiencing, mainly students and families, an unprecedented phenomenon that generates as many concerns as questions: something that started out as exceptional and about what is now said to give way to a “new normal”, without know very well what this term points to.<\/p>\n What is certain is that\u00a0this pandemic will mark a before and after in the field of education<\/a>\u00a0and opens scenarios of increasing uncertainty.<\/p>\n The field work for this first radiography has been carried out through twenty interviews.\u00a0Thus, we have made a journey from the first cycle of Early Childhood Education (0-3 years) to university to highlight the diversity of situations that our educational system is going through in the process of adapting face-to-face tasks to virtual ones.<\/p>\n The profile of interviewees is very varied: we have collected testimonies from women and men, from urban and rural areas, from different parts of the peninsula and from the islands.<\/p>\n In the case of\u00a0students<\/a>\u00a0, the people interviewed are from ESO and Bachillerato.\u00a0In the case of\u00a0families<\/a>\u00a0, they are mothers and fathers who speak, either individually, or as members of parents’ associations, as well as\u00a0teachers<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0union representatives<\/a>\u00a0who also respond from their role as mothers and fathers.<\/p>\n The balance leads us to make a wake-up call on educational and social inequality and on the consequences that this crisis is having and will have on the intensification of inequalities.<\/p>\n This pandemic makes of glass and magnifying glass: it reflects and amplifies our limits and our response to them.<\/p>\n The conclusions indicate that, once again, the big losers of this pandemic are the socially vulnerable groups and that they are further away from a school culture that is now becoming a culture of the digital age.<\/p>\n A transversal and common axis to all the testimonies is the importance of the public, in times of need, within the framework of markedly neo-liberal policies.<\/p>\n As for the students, the question arises if, in a moment as difficult as this, it makes sense to continue sending \u201cexaggerated amounts of homework\u201d (student, 4th ESO, Cuenca) instead of taking advantage of the situation to promote meaningful learning for life on issues related to the pandemic, society, people, citizenship, care and digital.<\/p>\n The debate has been placed on a sensation of curricular loss, when it could be a time to learn and grow “in another way”.\u00a0This is illustrated by one of the students: 1st Baccalaureate student<\/strong>\u00a0.<\/p>\n Also one of the teachers states: Infant Teacher 0-3<\/strong>\u00a0.<\/p>\n Another representative of the teaching staff agrees: Infant Teacher 0-3.<\/strong><\/p>\n On the other hand, from the field of management, attention is drawn to students with special needs: CEIP Director<\/strong>\u00a0.<\/p>\n For their part, families point out that the greatest difficulty they find at the moment is the lack of access or ICT skills, as well as the supply of teaching tasks. CEIP Director<\/strong>\u00a0.<\/p>\n Added to this is the debate, from a feminist perspective, on the global workload: It will be necessary to monitor the possible imbalances that this causes in the sexual division of labor, if a new possibility has been opened for co-responsibility or gender gaps have increased.\u00a0Even, some adaptation key to the digital culture is offered:A wake-up call on inequality<\/strong><\/h4>\n
“It is not the right method”<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\n“I do not find out anything … In many subjects they send us to copy without really knowing the objective of this task, and I think it is not the most appropriate method.”<\/em><\/p>\n“That they discover the value of being with family”<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\n\u201cDuring this time of confinement, more emphasis should be placed on discovering how valuable it is to be with family, developing autonomy, learning to do tasks that are often done by their parents, and thus giving them more time to be together.\u00a0This is also learning and, above all, being \u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n“This is going to have an impact on learning.”<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\n\u201cThis situation is going to have an impact on learning.\u00a0Depending on how we treat it, this impact will be either beneficial or detrimental.\u00a0Not so much at the content level as at the emotional level \u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cWorking at a distance with the needs students\u201d<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\n\u201cA special section should also be made for students with educational support needs.\u00a0With these creatures it is more difficult to work at a distance, for them it is essential to have a reference that motivates and accompanies them in the learning process \u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n“The teachers are not present”<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\n\u201cMost families have tried to contribute to normality by coordinating and contacting teachers.\u00a0It must be understood that it has been a very complex and alarming situation for everyone.\u00a0From one day to the next the way of teaching changes, the teachers are no longer present, there are their recommendations, the family becomes the one who takes charge of the process. \u201d<\/em><\/p>\n“It is difficult to telework with children at home”<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\n\u201cMany women have lost their chances of reconciling work and family life.\u00a0For those who are lucky to telework, it is being very difficult to do it with children at home.\u00a0Those who are forced to go out to do their work do not have support networks either. \u201d<\/em>
\nHead of the FEsp-UGT union<\/strong>\u00a0.<\/p>\n“You could buy computers instead of books”<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\n\u201cWith the money that families spend on textbooks, they could buy laptops without problems and it would not be difficult for there to be digital content for all levels\u2026 However, this is not done in the interest of publishers.\u00a0As there is also the book bonus, families are not aware of the money that the administration disburses. \u201d<\/em><\/p>\n