Full Description
The nine chapters in this book explore how the Italian education system responded to distance learning during the first wave of the pandemic. The impact of the hard lockdown on both teaching and learning revealed the inherent weaknesses of a system in which digital technology had only recently been introduced and highlighted the relevant inequalities in their access and use.
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Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Social Needs, Emergency Policies and Solidaristic Attitudes throughout the Italian Education System: Sociological Research during the Covid-19 Pandemic Outbreak
Maddalena Colombo, Marco Romito, Massimiliano Vaira and Martina Visentin
1 Challenges for Early Childhood Professionals: An Empirical Research Project on the Strategies, Practices and Effects of LEADs
Rita Bertozzi and Tatiana Saruis
2 Rethinking the Role of No Schooling during the Pandemic
Maurizio Merico and Fausta Scardigno
3 Rhetoric, Problem or Necessity? A Study of Parental Involvement during Covid-19
Mariagrazia Santagati and Paolo Barabanti
4 From Classroom to Screen: An Exploratory Study of University Students in Sicily during the Covid-19 Lockdown
Umberto Di Maggio
5 A New World Is Open? Distance Teaching in Italian Universities during the Covid-19 Emergency
Francesco Ramella and Michele Rostan
6 Young Europeans, Distance Learning and Trust in Educational Institutions: A Comparative Analysis after Covid-19
Diego Mesa
7 Inside the Emergency: Digital Teaching from the Point of View of Teachers
Eduardo Barberis, Nico Bazzoli, Domenico Carbone and Joselle Dagnes
8 Distance Learning/Teaching during the Covid-19 Emergency: The Perspective of School Principals
Stefania Capogna, Maria Chiara De Angelis and Flaminia Musella
9 The Platformization and Commodification of Italian Schools during the Covid-19: Crisis Implications for Policy and Future Research
Gianna Cappello
A Post-Commentary from the UK: Educational Challenges after the Covid-19 Pandemic
Spyros Themelis
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