ERIC Number: EJ1440576
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 23
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ISSN: ISSN-1745 -7823
EISSN: EISSN-1745-7831
'And Here Is a Caterpillar Kindergarten': Latin American Children Transforming School Practices at Home during the Pandemic
Ethnography and Education, v19 n3 p278-300 2024
The present ethnographic study was conducted in collaboration with thirty-five Latin American children from different countries during the period of school closures precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Through exchanges of multimodal texts (letters, text messages, photos, drawings, audios, videos) and virtual encounters, we sought to understand how these children reconstructed and transformed their schooling practices. Through our interactions in this constructed ethnographic field, we could observe how the children lived during the pandemic from their unique perspectives. Everyday school structures were incorporated within the children's embodiments and experiences at home, opening new opportunities for agency enactment, and expanding possibilities for learning and exploration. Their learning practices revealed a process of appropriation, merging what they already knew to new learning experiences that were created beyond the school as an institution or an abstract concept.
Descriptors: Educational Practices, COVID-19, Pandemics, Family Environment, Educational Environment, Student Experience, Educational Change, Distance Education, Personal Autonomy, Foreign Countries, Children, Writing (Composition), Speech Communication, Creativity, Latin Americans
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Chile; Panama; Argentina; Brazil; Colombia; Mexico
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