Social Justice, Participation and School during the COVID-19—The International Project Gira por la Infancia

Antonio Salvador Jiménez Hernández, Jorge Cáceres-Muñoz and Miguel Martín-Sánchez
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Antonio Salvador Jiménez Hernández: Department of Education Sciences, Teacher Training College, University of Extremadura, 10003 Cáceres, Spain
Jorge Cáceres-Muñoz: Department of Education Sciences, Teacher Training College, University of Extremadura, 10003 Cáceres, Spain
Miguel Martín-Sánchez: Department of Education Sciences, Teacher Training College, University of Extremadura, 10003 Cáceres, Spain

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 5, 1-19

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to present the data which have been obtained in a research project on education during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the framework of the international project Gira por la Infancia 2020 . The aim was to construct a critical, active, and participatory citizenship. The method used has been the pedagogical hermeneutic in which the qualitative analysis of data was preceded by a process of child participation which allowed the analysis of the opinions of 6867 children and adolescents from 22 countries and 3 continents. The results present the children’s thinking about the closure of schools, the alternative teaching carried out, the role of teachers and families, and on the return of the "new school" with the health protocols. This work provides the children’s view on the measures of social distancing and massive school closures. However, without doubt, it also shows children’s and adolescents’ potential to empower themselves in complex situations which put the world’s schools in an unprecedented crisis. In addition, it shows the opportunity to take into consideration a joint construction of a society from the germ of its citizenship: children.

Keywords: COVID-19; school; childhood; adolescence; citizenship; participation; education; social justice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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