Equity in rural education during confinement by COVID-19: the case of a multigrade primary school

This paper presents the results of a research realized in a rural primary school during confinement by COVID-19 pandemic. The main porpoise of this study was to analyze some difficulties in this context manly on the academic activities. We tried to understand the perspective of the teacher and the a...

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Authors: González Lira, Ana Laura; Moreno Tapia, Javier
Format: Article
Status:Published version
Publication date:2021
Country:México
Institution:UAEH
Repository:Edähi Boletín Científico de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades del ICSHu
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:repository.uaeh.edu.mx:article/7844
Online Access:https://repository.uaeh.edu.mx/revistas/index.php/icshu/article/view/7844
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:rural schools
educational equity
multigrade
Escuelas rurales
equidad educativa
multigrado
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Summary:This paper presents the results of a research realized in a rural primary school during confinement by COVID-19 pandemic. The main porpoise of this study was to analyze some difficulties in this context manly on the academic activities. We tried to understand the perspective of the teacher and the analysis of information from various sources. During the development of this report, we recovered published knowledge about multigrade schools during the pandemic. All this, based on the approach of educational equity and the advances in legislation in Mexico join information national and local. We applied interviews and questionnaires with a teacher in this case study The results show that the current pandemic accentuates the social inequalities of the populations of students in the rural sector, in three components: access, permanence and educational achievement, a situation that marks the need for the design and implementation of equity policies and the importance of the scientific approach to the subject from educational research.