"The nine chapters in this book explore how the Italian education system responded to distance learning during the first wave of the pandemic. The impact of the hard lockdown on both teaching and learning revealed the inherent weaknesses of a system in which digital technology had only recently been introduced and highlighted the relevant inequalities in their access and use. While students, teachers and families adapted (albeit with difficulty) to the new learning and teaching routines, the institutionsfaced the challenge of ensuring quality and equality. By including various case studies and unedited sets of data collected in different areas of the country, the book offers up-to-date insights on the impact of the pandemic on the Italian school system and provides a broad introduction to the educational emergency from a sociological perspective. The volume ends with a post-commentary comparing the Italian case with the similar situation of school closure as it occurred in the United Kingdom"--
Italian sociologists of education explore how Italy's education system reacted to the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in March-June 2020, and the impact that the sudden closure and shift to distance teaching has had and continues to have on the education system, students and teachers, and society as a whole. Among their topics are rethinking the role of no schooling during the pandemic, an exploratory study of university students in Sicily during the COVID-19 lockdown, distance teaching in Italian universities during the COVID-19 emergency, digital teaching from the point of view of teachers, and the platformization and commodification of Italian schools during the COVID-19 crisis. Annotation ©2022 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
The nine chapters in this book explore how the Italian education system responded to distance learning during the first wave of the pandemic. The impact of the hard lockdown on both teaching and learning revealed the inherent weaknesses of a system in which digital technology had only recently been introduced and highlighted the relevant inequalities in their access and use.
