Open Access Opinion

Anthropological Speculations about Education in Pandemic Times

Hildon Oliveira Santiago Carade*

Professor of Sociology, IF BAIANO, campus Santa Inês, Brazil

Corresponding Author

Received Date: August 18, 2020;  Published Date: August 26, 2020

Abstract

When summer comes in the North hemisphere, school corridors may smell of fresh air, a sense of a new beginning, as teachers and students are headed for a new school year. However, not this August in many countries, because of the coronavirus pandemic. The world is facing an ongoing movement of educational institution closures. Suddenly, academic organizations switched to remote learning, in response to the worries about spreading covid-19. In doing so, might distance learning be a death sentence for schools, those oldfashioned technologies created by modern society?

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