Responses to COVID-19 From Non-State School Leaders in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa and, India: A Call for Educational Equity

Cordeiro, Paula A.; Gluckman, Maxie; Johnson, A. A.

doi:10.3389/feduc.2021.618323

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“…Prior research has indicated, for example, that COVID-19 has created an unprecedented crisis with numerous and ongoing challenges to educational systems around the world (Rincones et al, 2021). These challenges required both adaptive and contingent leadership, including targeted responses to the social, emotional, mental health and academic needs of students and school staff (e.g., Moss et al, 2020;Cordeiro et al, 2021;Greany et al, 2022).…”

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Schools’ improvement capacity and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from schools serving disadvantaged communities

Beckmann

Kötter-Mathes²,

Klein³

et al. 2022

Front. Educ.

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The goal of this paper is to analyze the relationship between six different dimensions of school improvement capacity (SIC) and schools’ efforts to sustain teaching and learning as well as student well-being during the first lockdown in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on data from 13 qualitative interviews with principals and data from a standardized teacher survey at schools serving disadvantaged communities in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (N = 385 teachers), we assessed (1) the schools’ level of SIC shortly before the lockdown, (2) their reported response to the lockdown with regard to sustaining student learning and well-being, and (3) similarities between the schools in terms of the combination of the level of SIC and the reported effort to address the challenges of distance learning. Our results suggest that two major groups of schools can be distinguished in terms of level of SIC. Furthermore, we identified a range of thematic clusters related to how schools acted during distance learning, each of which can be assigned to one or more dimensions of SIC. Finally, we identified four patterns, referring to different combinations of SIC and the schools’ reported actions. The results indicate that schools with a higher initial SIC were more able to find flexible and pragmatic solutions in order to sustain student learning and well-being during distance learning. Our findings stress the importance of school improvement activities at schools serving disadvantaged communities in dealing with sudden challenges for teaching and learning, such as those encountered during COVID-19.

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Schools’ improvement capacity and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from schools serving disadvantaged communities

Beckmann

Kötter-Mathes²,

Klein³

et al. 2022

Front. Educ.

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“…Another finding is associated with education equity (Cordeiro et al, 2021): the responses to COVID-19 From non-state school leaders in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and India point to the support provided during school closures (35% of the participants indicated that they offered some support through technology and 53% through paper methods). Technologies utilised included messaging apps, video or audio conferencing, and/or LMS.…”

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Education in Emergency: Lessons Learned About School Management Practices and Digital Technologies

Monteiro

Leite

Coppi

et al. 2023

Research in Educational Administration and Leadership

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In a period strongly marked by constraints and abrupt societal changes, school leaders had to manage the pandemic crisis, guide changes, and find new solutions to respond to the demands of increasingly digitalised schools. Taking this situation into consideration, a study was carried out with the aim of identifying the main challenges faced by school leaders in Portugal related to the teaching and learning processes, platforms and other digital technologies (PDT) used, and lessons learned for a post-pandemic future. From the methodological point of view, a questionnaire with closed questions on digital technologies and open questions on the COVID-19 pandemic issue was submitted to Portuguese school leaders in the period between November 2020 and March 2021. The results, based on a descriptive statistical analysis of the closed questions and the content analysis of the open answers of 145 school leaders, point to aspects related to lack of training, lack of resources, widening inequalities and communication issues. The PDT are the same as used before, mainly office applications, and spaces for storing and sharing school information; however, these PDT were used more frequently. These findings imply the need to invest in continuous training for leaders in how to manage crises and how to optimise the use of PDT in schools; and to capitalise on internal and external partnerships in collaborative efforts and networking to overcome the lack of resources, social needs and inequalities. The lessons learned during the process of finding and evaluating solutions can contribute to improving school management processes in crisis situations.

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“…The students also experienced stress in maintaining their education, particularly those in higher education, who, normally more independent, could afford such transition by their means, still had to address diverse family, economic, and curriculum factors and environments [26]. In any case, the situation for public and private schools generally lived differently [27].…”

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Post-COVID-19 Transition in University Physics Courses: A Case of Study in a Mexican University

Delgado

2022

Education Sciences

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The extended confinement imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns resulted in the imposition of online education for two years. Many students experienced their transitions to higher educative levels during this time, surely losing some academic learning as a consequence. On the other hand, this context could have promoted different types of competencies, until recently not explored, as a function of students’ personalities or academic profiles. Physics teaching is among those areas which have changed from its traditional methods during this period. The return to school during the ‘New Normal’ has resulted in certain concerns about students’ adaptability due to their possible lack of learning over this time. We analyse, in the current research, the transitions of three generations crossing several pandemic stages during their time participating in university physics courses during the first year, a common entry point for engineering programs. In addition, we analyse several academic traits as causal factors of academic success in order to understand how performance could be affected during online education and during the ‘New Normal’. The results highlight a general high level of adaptation for the most of the students, but still, some of them were affected in terms of the functioning of their learning styles or regarding their personality profiles. Notably, no meaningful losses were detected among the last transition; instead, several interesting aspects were found relating to academic profile appearing to have an effect on the students’ performance during the first transition to online education, and then during the second transition back to face-to-face education in the ‘New Normal’.

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Responses to COVID-19 From Non-State School Leaders in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa and, India: A Call for Educational Equity

Cited by 6 publications

References 26 publications

Schools’ improvement capacity and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from schools serving disadvantaged communities

Schools’ improvement capacity and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from schools serving disadvantaged communities

Education in Emergency: Lessons Learned About School Management Practices and Digital Technologies

Post-COVID-19 Transition in University Physics Courses: A Case of Study in a Mexican University

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