The Return to the Classroom after the Lockdown: New Challenges and New Education for a New Society Book in Scopus uri icon

abstract

  • In December 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported the presence of a variant of the SARS-CoV2 coronavirus initially discovered in the city of Wuhan, the People¿s Republic of China. With astonishment, the world observed as the increasing contagion curved parallel to the increase in the number of deaths in Asia, Europe, Africa, and America. The pandemic forced everyone to change their lifestyle; all areas of society were affected, especially education at all levels. The confinement responded to the extremely dangerous pandemic with the transformation from face-to-face classes to distance classes, the sudden implementation of digital skills for teachers and students, and the restructuring of courses to correspond to a new reality. In 2022, despite continuing to fight against variants (such as the very contagious Omicron) with the strength that science and vaccines have given it, society has decided to face it and restart its activities, little by little, with a vision of returning to regular activity during 2022 and 2023. In this chapter, we address how this new reality has affected teaching methods in Higher Education, the perspective of education, current theories, and new approaches, and needs that will have to be addressed. Social reality requires the acquisition of new skills now required by employers, the creation of new programmes, and the creation of new evaluation systems. © 2023 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

publication date

  • January 1, 2022