The education and learning means of pandemic covid-19: the challenges and lessons

Abstract

The present study presents lately lessons learned as how to issue public policies by school managers, professors, and legislators to counter the COVID-19 pandemic. The targeted aspects are education field focused, inherently connected with distance learning during this period. The approach is qualitative having documental and bibliographic research as initial exploratory techniques. The data collection was through an on-line survey divulged by social networks. The paper is structured in four main sections: the first about methodology, the second covering the surrounding introductory picture, the third discussing education and its relation with the pandemic, and the last section presenting the analysis on the collected data. At last, the following main lessons are outlined: (i) professors were not ready for the distance teaching; the importance of (ii) democratizing the access to the internet, and performing learning through open television, telephone and radio; (iii) including on the curriculum and politic-pedagogic project teaching, learning and evaluation alternatives for an abnormal school period; (iv)  properly evaluating the Nacional Curriculum Directives and including education techniques disciplines on the teacher training curricula; and (v) reviewing the regulatory policies on distance learning for basic education. The transition from formal and face-to-face activities to the virtual one implies several consequences, in particular, there should be an increase in educational inequalities.