2021

This dossier is an invitation to think about educational processes in times of pandemic from a Latin American perspective. It brings together texts by academics from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Spain, Mexico and Uruguay. They provide a comprehensive reading on the unprecedented experience of doing school through stories, images and strategies deployed by the actors and institutions.  A characteristic of Latin American education systems is the inequality that has been exacerbated by the pandemic. Inequality makes the human right to a dignified life and to an emancipatory education impossible. The effects are perceived through objective and statistical data of injustice to which are added the symbolic conditions: loss of schooling, rupture of social ties, social withdrawal from confinement, daily situations of violence, overcrowding of homes, poverty and exclusion. The essays contain theoretical reflections, interpretaron of research results, analysis of public policies, documentation of experiences, images, narratives and pedagogical memories that enable questions and proposals on education in pandemics and an exercise of imagination of what is to come. Considering that we, the actors of the educational community, are in a certain sense survivor, it is necessary to rebuild the institutional fabric to help repair the social wounds. Subjective experiences and the socio-affective fabric, in particular social suffering, constitute central axes for the interpretation of daily life towards the construction of a pedagogy of trauma and hope.

Coordinators

Nilda Alves y Carina V. Kaplan