The moment to see the poor

Braun, Joachim von; Zamagni, Stéfano; Sorondo, Marcelo Sánchez

doi:10.1126/science.abc2255

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“…Digital literacy itself is critical [28] as a skill to mobilize competences in the selection, apprehension and use of information that comes digitally through the Internet. However, there are inequalities regarding a school based on the digital virtual [58].…”

Section: Fostering Digital Literacy Through Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

COVID-19 and the Promotion of Digital Competences in Education

Sá¹,

Serpa²

2020

ujer

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The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has profound consequences on social, economic and cultural life worldwide, and is affecting, throughout the world, the regular functioning of educational institutions at all levels, with their temporary shutdown and the impossibility of face-to-face classes. This study aims to add to the analysis of the implications of this context in the reformulation of education shaped by the digital. To fulfill this goal, the authors carried out a document collection, and also mobilized their experience in the research and teaching of this topic. It is concluded that these unforeseen circumstances may be a key moment of opportunity for reformulating teaching, with the implementation, development and dissemination among teachers and students of digital technologies in shaping a society that is, itself, increasingly digital, notably Society 5.0. To this end, and as main implications, the agents of the educational process, teachers and students, due to their traits and various reasons, will have to prepare for student-centered learning through the intentional and sensible mobilization of digital technologies in a complex process, in which each agent will be, ultimately, a critical content creator with enhanced digital literacy. In the contemporary digital society, the school needs to reinvent itself, which is even more pressing with the Covid-19 pandemic. Aspects such as training, internet access infrastructure, hardware and software, digital literacy, and students and academics' teaching and learning strategies are essential. The school offers, thus, a critical contribution to social cohesion and social equity through digital inclusion in education for sustainable development.

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Section: Fostering Digital Literacy Through Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

COVID-19 and the Promotion of Digital Competences in Education

Sá¹,

Serpa²

2020

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“…In the case of pandemics, authors such as von Braun, Zamagni and Sorondo [104] argue that understanding the meanings of various social actions is critical in their management [20,105], with the development of specific measures for different social groups [39,40,77] and the possibility to counter the logics underlying the stigmatisation of the "other" [106]. In the COVID-19 pandemic, they imbricate: a new virus (SARS-CoV-2, with its own genetic characteristics); a human actor who is both the carrier of the pathogen and the diagnosed (or not) patient who brings out illness and sickness; an environment where nature (animal reservoir), humans and society interact; the knowledge of scientific medicine that is created at the same time as the virus replicates and the disease produces its effects, and legitimises public policies-a link that gives rise to an irreducible, inextricably biological, environmental and social relationship [107,108].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The COVID-19 Contagion–Pandemic Dyad: A View from Social Sciences

Ferreira

Sá²,

Martins

et al. 2020

Societies

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The objective of this concept paper focuses on the relevance of the analytical potential of Social Sciences for understanding the multiple implications and challenges posed by the COVID-19 contagion–pandemic dyad. This pandemic is generating a global threat with a high number of deaths and infected individuals, triggering enormous pressure on health systems. Most countries have put in place a set of procedures based on social distancing, as well as (preventive) isolation from possible infected and transmitters of the disease. This crisis has profound implications and raises issues for which the contribution of Social Sciences does not seem to be sufficiently mobilised. The contribution of Social Sciences is paramount, in terms of their knowledge and skills, to the knowledge of these problematic realities and to act in an informed way on these crises. Social Sciences are a scientific project focused on interdisciplinarity, theoretical and methodological plurality. This discussion is developed from the systems of relationships between social phenomena in the coordinates of time and place, and in the socio-historical contexts in which they are integrated. A pandemic is a complex phenomenon as it is always a point of articulation between natural and social determinations. The space of the discourse on the COVID-19 pandemic can be understood as the expression of a coalition of discourses, i.e., the interaction of various discourses, combined in re-interpretative modalities of certain realities and social phenomena. The circumstantial coalitions of interests, which shape the different discursive records and actions produced by different agents of distinct social spaces, enable the acknowledgement and legitimation of this pandemic threat and danger, and the promotion of its public management.

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“…The ongoing disaster cannot be explained by a virus per se but rather as a consequence of preexisting risk conditions and management policies. Disasters generally reveal that without reducing inequality, poverty, and exclusion, those most affected will see their risk increase [ 14 ]. The COVID 19 pandemic demonstrates this point at a global level.…”

Section: Future Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%