Impact on Education and Ecological Footprint as a Consequence of SARS-CoV-2 in the Perception of the Quality of Teaching Engineering Students in the Brazilian Amazon

Luiz Maurício Furtado Maués (), Felipe de Sá Moreira, Luciana de Nazaré Pinheiro Cordeiro, Raísse Layane de Paula Saraiva, Paulo Cerqueira dos Santos Junior and Olga Maria Pinheiro Pinheiro
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Luiz Maurício Furtado Maués: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Civil, Instituto de Tecnologia, Campus Universitário Guamá, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Belém 66075-110, PA, Brazil
Felipe de Sá Moreira: Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Instituto de Tecnologia, Campus Universitário Guamá, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Belém 66075-110, PA, Brazil
Luciana de Nazaré Pinheiro Cordeiro: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Civil, Instituto de Tecnologia, Campus Universitário Guamá, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Belém 66075-110, PA, Brazil
Raísse Layane de Paula Saraiva: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Civil, Instituto de Tecnologia, Campus Universitário Guamá, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Belém 66075-110, PA, Brazil
Paulo Cerqueira dos Santos Junior: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Matemática e Estatística, Instituto de Ciências Naturais, Campus Universitário Guamá, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Belém 66075-110, PA, Brazil
Olga Maria Pinheiro Pinheiro: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Civil, Instituto de Tecnologia, Campus Universitário Guamá, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Belém 66075-110, PA, Brazil

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 16, 1-17

Abstract: The world experienced several economic, social and environmental transformations during the COVID-19 pandemic, and today, society assesses all these changes in the different stages of the pandemic process. In this sense, this research aimed to evaluate the educational and environmental impacts on the academic community of the largest educational institution in the Brazilian Amazon. The perception of the quality of teaching of undergraduate and graduate engineering students during remote teaching was assessed by means of an exploratory research work carried out at the Federal University of Pará (Brazil). Ecological and carbon footprint indicators were also measured through the Global Footprint Network ® . In social terms, students pointed to a reduction in the quality of teaching. Despite the incentives through institutional initiatives for both students and professors, the community was not prepared to fully migrate to the virtual world, and that made the teaching–learning process difficult. In environmental terms, the reduction in the ecological footprint that was observed could have reached values higher than those that were found, to the order of 2.33%, with the mobility sector achieving the greatest reduction.

Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; education; ecological footprint (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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