Schools and Society During the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Education Systems Changed and the Road Ahead

Switzerland : Springer, 2024.

The question of how schools relate to society, in the dual sense of how they contribute to society and how they are affected by societal structures, processes and changes, is central to the understanding of educational institutions. The study of how societies and schools shape each other involves questions such as: Can schools make societies more prosperous, equitable or democratic? What are the similarities, and the differences, in how different societies educate their children? How much have schools changed over time and is the pace of change greater or smaller than the pace of change of other societal institutions? The COVID-19 pandemic created the opportunity to add these questions to that list: how did schools respond to the changes created by COVID-19? How will schools mediate the impact of COVID-19 on the lives of those who lived through the pandemic?

Chapters

Pandemic Lessons: Story of Cooperation and Competition in Russian Education

Andreeva A., Koroleva D., Kosaretsky S. et al., , in: Schools and Society During the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Education Systems Changed and the Road Ahead.: Switzerland: Springer, 2024. Ch. 9 P. 169–192.

This chapter examines how main actors such as policymakers, school teams, and Edtech companies faced the pandemic challenges and whether they cooperated with each other. The analysis demonstrates that while before COVID-19, Russian schools and Edtechs rarely cooperated with each other, the partnership developed in response to the necessity of an emergency transition to distance ...

Added: September 22, 2023

Keywords: experience of foreign countries, k-12 schools, adoption to COVID-19