15-09-2021
31-03-2023
Covid-19 has had an overwhelming impact on education systems globally, making it necessary, although not always possible, to adapt quickly to the online regime, given the impossibility of maintaining face-to-face teaching activities for long periods of time. The pandemic crisis has accelerated trends towards digitalisation of and in education, a process experienced very unevenly in different countries and regions, with huge and different challenges for education systems and schools. In this context, knowledge of different experiences and reflection on the constraints and difficulties experienced, as well as the diversity of responses found, particularly in rural, remote or less favoured/poorer areas, in a situation that required rapid adaptation and posed huge challenges in terms of accessibility, the use of technologies, their mobilisation in educational work and the identification or creation of alternative educational work methods, is extremely important.
The research project "'Digital Education' in Rural and/or Peripheral Areas: Challenges and Experiences" is part of the existing Cooperation Protocol between the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto (FPCEUP) and the Organisation of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI), Office and Portugal. The main objective of the project is to contribute to greater knowledge, reflection and problematisation on the current challenges, potential, risks and limits of Digital Education, specifically in peripheral and rural areas of Portuguese-speaking African countries (PALOP) and Latin American countries (LA), by identifying the measures adopted at the level of the respective education systems and by learning about and analysing the very different situations that exist at local level and in primary schools (1st to 6th grade).
Recognising the enormous importance of teachers and the role they have taken on and are taking on, even in times of pandemic, the research will pay particular attention to the "Voice of Teachers", their testimonies about their experiences and their perceptions and expectations about the Digitalisation of Education.
TEDeMoS – Work, Education, Development and Social Movements
Organização de Estados Ibero-americanos