Det var de enskilda lärarna och skolorna som fick ta ansvar för att skolorna skulle kunna hålla öppet när coronapandemin slog till. Samtidigt blev det tydligt att skolan inte bara är en plats för undervisning utan att den fyller en vital och viktig social funktion i samhället.

After making a major shift to remote learning at the beginning of the pandemic, some teachers had to adjust to another unfamiliar environment when their school buildings reopened: teaching students online and in-person at the same time. Engaging, monitoring and supporting two sets of students with very different needs is a complex juggling act that…

Educators were forced to think big when schools were thrust into crisis, and not just about how to use technology.  

Keeping schools open was an active strategy in Sweden to meet the threats of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this article we analyze how a collection of welfare state agents with different tasks, resources and interests in interaction formed an assemblage in their responses to the pandemic and how education thereby became part of a strategy…

Det var de enskilda lärarna och skolorna som i praktiken fick ta ansvaret för att skolorna skulle kunna hålla öppet när coronapandemin slog till. Samtidigt synliggjordes skolans vitala funktion för hela samhället. Det visar en genomgång av hur det gick till när Sverige höll skolorna öppna under pandemins inledande månader.

Under 2020 har människors beteenden förändrats på grund av Covid-19. I ett nytt forskningsprojekt kallat Utopian Stories ska elever hjälpa forskare att undersöka vad vi låtit bli att göra på grund av pandemin, och vad vi kan tänkas fortsätta att avstå från framöver för att bidra till ett bättre klimat. Elever runt om i Sverige…

En landsomfattende undersøkelse av vold, overgrep og psykisk helse blant ungdom i Norge våren 2020. (pdf)

Forskere ved Nasjonalt kunnskapssenter om vold og traumatisk stress mener det særlig er tre ting kommuner som stenger skolene, kan lære av nedstengingen i fjor.

This report is an analysis of multiple data sources collected over several months of engagement with educators, parents, and other educational stakeholders. It maps the main challenges, opportunities, support systems, and uses of educational technologies in the English education system since Spring 2020. (pdf)

This report presents the ways in which educational technology can best be used to support teaching and learning for school-aged pupils, particularly when traditional education is disrupted. The work we report here is unique in its synthesis of the multiple voices that contribute to the education ecosystem. It is pragmatic and future facing, with an…

As educators approach the one-year mark in pandemic-related school changes, many are experiencing high levels of traumatic stress, assert Christy Tirrell-Corbin, Center for Early Childhood Education and Intervention at the University of Maryland, and Carlomagno Panlilio, Department of Educational Psychology at Penn State University. In this commentary, they suggest short-term solutions, such as focusing on…

For children learning English, speaking the language can be a way to fit in. But teachers worry that remote learning means some students aren't hearing even casual English outside their classes.