Covidian education: An enquiry into Arab culture
| Autor: | Sumaia Attia Al Hasan, Aliaa Adel Shams Eldin Gomaa, Weaam Mohamed Ismaeel, Ahlam Mohammed Al-Abdullatif, Shaher Rebhi Elayyan, Amani Mohammed Bukhamseen, Ahmed Ali Alhazmi, Lena Khaled Almotreb, Hanadi Buarki, Fathi Mohammed Abunasser, Eman Abdulaziz Aldoughan, Ahmed R. Elsayed, Khaled Saad Ben-Motreb, Abdulrahman Essa Al Lily, Merfat Ayesh Alsubaie, Sarah Saleh Almustafa, Nouf Abdulaziz Al Mohsen, Maha Saad Alsaeed, Mostafa Samy Amira, Maha Affat Aldoghmi, Hibah Khalid Aladsani, Munira Hshbel Alqhtani, Anas Mohammad Al Hanandeh, Ayed Mohammed Alghamdi, Khawla Abdullah Almufeez, Samia Mokhtar Mohamed Shahpo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Sociology and Political Science
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) business.industry Cheating media_common.quotation_subject Distance education Educational technology Human Factors and Ergonomics Qualitative property Public relations Education Harm Feeling Pandemic Sociology Business and International Management business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Technology in Society. 66:101673 |
| ISSN: | 0160-791X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.techsoc.2021.101673 |
| Popis: | This article constructs a cultural framework for Arab education amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Such education occurs inside private homes, raising privacy-related methodological challenges to research. To bypass these, numerous researchers were recruited to collect qualitative data from within the homes of friends and relatives. They collected large-scale data (2304 observations and 1292 interviews) and examined 1422 initiatives taken to facilitate education during the pandemic. In addition, they scrutinised 1390 relevant witticisms, on the basis that the humour of a culture is an indicator of public feeling. Data analysis reveals the existence of ‘covidian education’; this is digital and, thus, less tangible than pre-covidian education, necessitating spatial and temporal rearrangements. It is parent-centred, adding educational responsibilities to parents' workloads. It undermines integrity, with parents taking examinations on children's behalf. Being home-based, it compromises the privacy of students' and teachers' residences. It modifies gender relations, eliminates existing actors and welcomes new stakeholders. Compared to pre-covidian education, it is culturally dissimilar and educationally inferior. It presents ‘facades’ of positive experiences that mask negative realities, and does students more harm than good. We find that unprecedented issues arise in relation to ‘covidian natives’ (whose education comprises solely the covidian form) and ‘covidian graduates’. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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