An unprecedented challenge for Families & Teachers: Covid-19 against Education
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Una sfida senza precedenti per famiglie e insegnanti: Covid-19 nemico dell’istruzione
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Questo lavoro intende esaminare il grave impatto del COVID- 19 sulla relazione genitori-scuola, sui protagonisti di questa relazione (genitori, studenti e insegnanti) e più in particolare sulla loro salute mentale. Varie fonti affermano che, a causa dell'epidemia di Coronavirus e dei suoi effetti collaterali, l'apprendimento online a cui sono stati costretti quasi tutti gli studenti di diverse fasce di età e parti del mondo, ha fortemente influenzato l'apprendimento, l'insegnamento, la salute mentale e la vita quotidiana. La perdita del lavoro, soprattutto per le madri lavoratrici, le difficoltà finanziarie delle famiglie, la didattica a distanza e la devastante perdita di parenti e amici hanno provocato in molti una caotica instabilità in termini di salute mentale (APA, 2020). La disuguaglianza digitale, le differenze di status socio-economico (SES) e la generale assenza di rapporti di fiducia tra genitori e insegnanti sembrano aver intensificato le disparità educative che necessitano di essere valutate in modo approfondito dai ricercatori.
Poiché la pandemia persiste nel trasformare l'apprendimento come l’abbiamo conosciuto finora, l’impegno dei genitori, che è emerso come imperativo nell'apprendimento a distanza e la cui importanza è stata l'epicentro di una grande mole di ricerche in tutto il mondo per decenni, invoca pratiche e strategie efficaci che colmino il divario tra i due agenti della pedagogia favorendo una cultura di dialogo e fiducia. Il rapido e inatteso progresso tecnologico che ha travolto l'insegnamento, se utilizzato nel miglior interesse dei bambini, potrebbe trasformare l'istruzione nei termini di un suo migliore adattamento all'era moderna. Si tratta, tuttavia, di uno sforzo che non può essere fruttuoso senza l'invito strategico degli insegnanti ai genitori a un rapporto rispettoso e fiducioso.
Parole chiave: Covid-19, salute mentale, educazione, relazione famiglia-scuola
An unprecedented challenge for Families & Teachers: Covid-19 against Education
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This work intends to examine the serious impact of tenacious COVID- 19 on the parent – school partnership and its members, parents, students, and teachers, and more particularly on their mental health. Various sources claim that because of the Coronavirus Outbreak and its aftereffects, the induced online learning to almost all students of all ages worldwide, has greatly oppressed Learning, Teaching, Mental health, and Everyday life. Job loss, mostly for the working mothers, and financial distress for the families, in addition to shouldering home-schooling, and the devastating loss of relatives and friends has created a chaotic mental health instability for many (APA, 2020). Digital inequality, and Socio-Economic Status (SES) differences and the overall absence of trusting relationships between parents and teachers seem to have escalated educational disparities which need to get estimated in-depth by the researchers.
As the Pandemic persists on changing learning in ways we have known so far, the emerged and imperative for Online Learning parental engagement, whose importance has been the epicenter of a great amount of research worldwide for decades, evokes powerful practices and strategies that will bridge the two agents of pedagogy into a culture of dialogue and trust. The unanticipated rapid technological advance that has overwhelmed teaching, if used for the best interest of the children, could transform education to its better adjustment in the modern era. That is, however, an endeavor that cannot be fruitful without the strategic invitation of teachers to parents into a respectful and trusting relationship.
Keywords: Covid-19, mental health, education, family-school relationship
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.32043/gsd.v5i1_sup.311
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