A global perspective on schooling in the COVID-19 pandemic era

The COVID-19 pandemic led to disruptions in education worldwide that have been characterized as "the worst education crisis on record". A key response globally to slow the spread of the pandemic was a radical reduction in face-to-face contact between people. Accordingly, general and vocati...

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Published in:Tertium comparationis (Print) 2022-12, Vol.28 (3), p.241-249
Main Authors: Sonnenburg, Nadine, Hornberg, Sabine
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescents
Bildung
Child Care Centers
COVID-19
Distance learning
Educational Opportunities
Educational Quality
In Person Learning
International education
Learning Processes
Lifelong Learning
Pandemics
School closures
Schule
Students
Teaching
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Summary:The COVID-19 pandemic led to disruptions in education worldwide that have been characterized as "the worst education crisis on record". A key response globally to slow the spread of the pandemic was a radical reduction in face-to-face contact between people. Accordingly, general and vocational schools were shut down intermittently. The resultant education crisis "brought education systems across the world to a halt, with school closures affectins more than 1.6 bil-lion learners". According to a Sep 2021 UNICEF press release, since the pandemic's start school children worldwide had missed an estimated 1.8 trillion hours of classroom instruction. These numbers meanwhile have only grown as a result of ongoing or repeated school closures. In addition, "millions more are at risk of never returning to education". Thus, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, an enormous number of children and adolescents worldwide have been affected by what often are far-reaching interruptions in their education. Here, Sonnenburg and Hornberg look at the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic era on schooling.
ISSN:0947-9732
1434-1697
1434-1697
DOI:10.31244/tc.2022.03.01