¿Cómo aprendes ahora con el Covid?. Voces infantiles sobre la escuela en pandemia

Abstract

The closure of schools during the Covid-19 pandemic has strongly affected children’s schooling, as well as their daily experience. The aim of this article was to explore child learning experiences during the pandemic. Visual production interviews were conducted with 25 children from Chile between the ages of 7 and 11, from different geographical, socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. Due to health conditions, interviews were conducted in some cases virtually, using WhatsApp or Zoom, others were conducted face-to-face, either individually or as a group. In addition, an ethnographic approach was proposed, which, although limited by health restrictions, was implemented through the written record of all the instances that led to the interviews and their contexts. Three main findings are highlighted: (1) the difficulties of pandemic schooling and how this affects their learning, in particular the lack of feedback from their teachers; (2) the centrality of their emotional ties with their family and friends, and the importance of their body in their daily experience with learning; (3) a certain handling of digital technologies, but also great socio-economic inequalities and difficulties of communication between peers through these media. This exploratory study allows to open lines of future research that put the child perspectives in crisis situations at the center.