scholarly journals Desigualdade, conectividade e direito à educação em tempos de pandemia

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-132
Author(s):  
Susana Beatriz Scavino ◽  
Vera Maria Candau

O artigo parte da constatação de que a pandemia do COVID-19 escancarou as enormes desigualdades presentes na sociedade brasileira e as inter-relações entre elas. Entende os Direitos Humanos como processos históricos, sempre em construção, na busca permanente de condições de vida justas e dignas para todos. Nesse contexto, situam as questões relativas ao direito à educação. Tem presente os esforços e lutas de diversos grupos sociais, particularmente, a partir da Constituição Brasileira de 1988, para a afirmação desse direito. Assinala que houve conquistas relevantes, mas que ainda temos muito que caminhar para que todos possam ter uma educação de qualidade. Tendo presente o contexto atual e a implantação do “ensino remoto emergencial”, por parte de muitos sistemas municipais e estaduais de educação, afirma que emerge com força a necessidade de garantir o direito de todos ao acesso às tecnologias de comunicação e informação, especialmente as mídias digitais, como um componente fundamental do direito à educação. No entanto, é importante não se ter uma visão meramente instrumental dessa questão, muitas vezes, reduzida à utilização de pacotes oferecidos por diversas organizações numa perspectiva mercadológica. É fundamental levar em consideração que a cultura digital está cada vez mais presente em diferentes âmbitos da vida social e afeta diversas dimensões de nossas vidas, individual e coletivamente, e nos desafia a entender, como educadores, formas de aprendizagem múltiplas, suas possibilidades e limites. O texto defende a posição de que, além da universalização do acesso, é fundamental promover processos de letramento digital de forma contínua, processual e sistemática, tanto orientada aos alunos e alunas, como aos professores e professoras, que permitam afirmar o direito à conectividade numa perspectiva educacional reflexiva, crítica e criativa.   Inequality, connectivity, and the right to education in times of pandemic The starting point of this article is the observation that the COVID-19 pandemic has wide opened the enormous inequalities into Brazilian society and their interrelationships. We understand the Human Rights as historical processes always under construction and in permanent search for fair and decent living conditions for everyone. In this context, we detach the issues related to the right to education. We consider the efforts and struggles of various social groups, particularly since the 1988 Brazilian Constitution, to affirm this right. There have been relevant achievements, but there is still a long way to guarantee quality education to everyone. In the current context of the “emergency remote education”  implementation by many municipal and state education systems, we affirm that guarantee everyone’s right to communication and information technologies,  especially digital media, is strongly needed as a fundamental component of the right to education. However, it is important not to take a merely instrumental view of this issue, often reduced to the use of packages offered by various organizations from a market perspective. It is fundamental considering that the digital culture is increasingly present in different spheres of social life and affects different dimensions of our lives, individually and collectively. It also challenges us, as educators, to understand multiple forms of learning, their possibilities, and limits. The text defends that, beyond the access universalization, it is important to promote digital literacy processes in a continuous, procedural, and systematic way. Both must be oriented to students and teachers to affirm the right to connectivity in a reflexive, critical, and creative educational perspective. Keywords: Right to education. Right to connectivity. Digital culture. Digital literacy.  

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Wilkie

Inventing the Social, edited by Noortje Marres, Michael Guggenheim and Alex Wilkie, showcases recent efforts to develop new ways of knowing society that combine social research with creative practice. With contributions from leading figures in sociology, architecture, geography, design, anthropology, and digital media, the book provides practical and conceptual pointers on how to move beyond the customary distinctions between knowledge and art, and on how to connect the doing, researching and making of social life in potentially new ways. Presenting concrete projects with a creative approach to researching social life as well as reflections on the wider contexts from which these projects emerge, this collection shows how collaboration across social science, digital media and the arts opens up timely alternatives to narrow, instrumentalist proposals that seek to engineer behaviour and to design community from scratch. To invent the social is to recognise that social life is always already creative in itself and to take this as a starting point for developing different ways of combining representation and intervention in social life.


SASI ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 196
Author(s):  
Lucia Charlota Octovina Tahamata ◽  
Welly Angela Riry

Fulfilling of the Right to Education is a part of Human Rights. The right to education has become important in line with government policies to work from home during the Covid 19 pandemic. During the Covid-19 pandemic the learning process uses two learning methods, namely the online method and the offline method. Two learning methods are used for learning but the process has not been implemented optimally by both teachers and students, there are always obstacles faced. The purpose of this study was to determine and study the fulfillment of the right to basic education during the Covid 19 pandemic. The authors conducted research at the Department of Education and Culture of Elementary Schools and Junior High Schools in Ambon City using empirical research methods, data collection techniques through interviews and observations to students. Based on the results of the research conducted, the authors found that the distance learning system in schools in Ambon City was not optimal due to facilities and infrastructure and mastery of technology. which is still low. Fulfilling the right to education requires the involvement of all parties, namely the government, educators, students and parents to work together in the teaching and learning process during the Covid-19 pandemic. The government, educators, students and educational administering institutions at a practical level must strive to develop learning methods with good digital literacy skills so that they need to be improved through trainings using media for online learning for both educators, students and parents


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luci Pangrazio ◽  
Julian Sefton-Green

Using digital media is complicated. Invasions of privacy, increasing dataveillance, digital-by-default commercial and civic transactions and the erosion of the democratic sphere are just some of the complex issues in modern societies. Existential questions associated with digital life challenge the individual to come to terms with who they are, as well as their social interactions and realities. In this article, we identify three contemporary normative responses to these complex issues –digital citizenship, digital rights and digital literacy. These three terms capture epistemological and ontological frames that theorise and enact (both in policy and everyday social interactions) how individuals learn to live in digitally mediated societies. The article explores the effectiveness of each in addressing the philosophical, ethical and practical issues raised by datafication, and the limitations of human agency as an overarching goal within these responses. We examine how each response addresses challenges in policy, everyday social life and political rhetoric, tracing the fluctuating uses of these terms and their address to different stakeholders. The article concludes with a series of conceptual and practical ‘action points’ that might optimise these responses to the benefit of the individual and society.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muharrem Kılıç

'Social distance', which is the most important health precaution taken to minimize the transmission risk of Covid-19 pandemic, whose impact on our social life and institutional structures is expected to continue unpredictably, has completely disrupted the dynamics of social life. In this context, many sectors, especially education and training services, which can only be delivered in an organic social context, have had to undergo a rapid formation process through new building dynamics apart from their traditional structural elements. Leading to a crisis in education systems, the pandemic required the urgent development of new education policies, and the prevention of disruption in education through the use of the most widely available technological opportunities available locally. Our study aims to analyze the transformative effect of the 'artificial techno-social network' as the new education and training method during the pandemic period on the education paradigm. In addition, the possibilities and problems presented by the new technological equipment (some AI-based) some of which were already in use to supplement education before the pandemic will be discussed in terms of the right to education. The 'distance education' or 'online education' practices, which can be described as the digital presentation of education and training services, are the main focus of the discussion.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Datts ◽  
Jan-Erik Wiederholz ◽  
Martin Schultze ◽  
Gerhard Vowe

While the political communication and participation activities of young adults are changing, this is often not adequately captured by research due to a too narrow conceptualization of the phenomenon. Our approach conceptualizes political communication as activities comprising the reception of political content, interpersonal communication regarding political issues and political participation. We incorporated both analog and digital media, as well as different forms of political participation, to reflect the complex reality of political communication activities of young adults in the digital age. On the basis of a sample from 2013, we investigated the patterns of political communication of young adults (ages 18–33 years). This age group represents the first generation to have grown up under the ubiquitous influence of the internet and other modern information technologies. In addition, we examined factors influencing the formation of different political communication patterns of this generation. Results of cluster analyses demonstrated that young adults should not be seen as a homogeneous group. Rather, we found six communication types. Interestingly, no online-only type of political communication was revealed, By applying multinomial logistic regression analysis, we were able to demonstrate that socio-demographic variables, individual resources and cognitive involvement in politics influence the likelihood of belonging to more active political communication types. The present study investigated various information and communication opportunities of young adults, and is rare in terms of the richness of data provided. Our conceptual innovative approach enables a better understanding of young adults’ complex political communication patterns. Moreover, our approach encourages follow-up research, as our results provide a valuable starting point for intergenerational comparisons regarding changes in political engagement among young adults in Germany, as well as for cross-country analysis regarding different generations of young adults.


Sociologija ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-432
Author(s):  
Nada Raduski

Recent political changes in states founded on the territory of the former Yugoslavia have resulted in profound changes in relation to minorities. The factual status of Serbian minorities in the neighboring countries has been influenced by various circumstances - demographic, political, legal, historical, etc. Outside Serbia, in former Yugoslav republics there are nearly half a million persons belonging to Serbian nationality who have the status of national minority. Although their social and legal status is defined according to European standards of minority protection, closer analysis points to a rather unfavorable status of Serbian minorities. A reason for such a situation may also be found in the poorly designed and insufficiently organized policy of the homeland country. Bilateral treaties are a way to protect more efficiently compatriots in other countries, as well as an efficient mechanism for better integration of minorities in all fields of social life in the territorial country. Minorities? rights stipulated in most bilateral treaties are the right to ethnic identity, linguistic rights, right to education, media rights, etc.


Author(s):  
Pragya Tiwari ◽  
Minal Trivedi ◽  
Apeksha Kesarwani ◽  
Ojaswi Gopale

A periodic state of rest accompanied by varying degrees of unconsciousness and relative inactivity is referred as sleep; in another way is a state in which an individual lacks conscious awareness of environment surroundings. Quality sleep and getting enough of it at the right times is as essential for survival just as food and water. Without sleep our brain can’t learn and create new memories, making it harder to concentrate and respond quickly. The Novel Coronavirus (also known as COVID-19) ushered the world into uncharted waters. In India, strict lockdown was imposed in three phases from March to June 2020 for the containment of the COVID-19 pandemic. At this juncture, we attempted to assess how derailment of social life due to imposed social isolation, leading to compromised sleep in the present scenario affects circadian driven sleep-wake pattern and other lifestyle related behaviour. A brief survey on affected sleep pattern of people during corona pandemic was conducted to understand the possible alterations in sleep-wake schedules and the daily routine related activities such as exposure time to digital media (i.e., TV, laptop/computer/mobile, etc.) as a consequence of lockdown.


Author(s):  
Elaine Aires Nunes ◽  
Roberto Francisco de Carvalho ◽  
Idemar Vizolli

The article aims to analyze democratic management as a principle of the right to education in the State of Tocantins, in times of Pandemic Covid-19. The discussion aims to elucidate public policies aimed at quality educational services in the public network – covering urban and rural education – and the state system's actions to guarantee the right to education in the exercise of democracy. The research is based on dialectical historical materialism, having as reference the bibliographic and documental research and normative collection issued, mainly, by the Ministry of Education, National Council of Education, Tocantins State Government and State Council of Education and data from CONVIVA. With critical attention, it points out the non-existence of educational policies and the State Education System's commitment to the situation of educational crisis and especially to the right to education in terms of democratic management.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 215
Author(s):  
Catur Nugroho ◽  
Kharisma Nasionalita

Digital literacy as an ability to understand and use information from various digital sources is not only related to reading characters, but also the process of thinking and evaluating information found in digital sources. There are various issues related to this, such as hoaxes, privacy violations, cyberbullying, violent content, and pornography. This study aims to determine the digital literacy index of adolescents in Indonesia. In this study, the population taken is part of the new millennial generation, namely young people of high school age in four cities in Indonesia, namely Bandung, Surabaya, Pontianak, and Denpasar, with a sample size of 500 people each. With a quantitative approach and survey research methods, the results show that the digital literacy level of adolescents in the four cities is at an advanced level. The dimension of the ability to find and select information is the dimension with the highest value in each of these cities. The dimension of creativity, namely the ability of youth to produce and share creative content in digital media, is the dimension with the lowest value, but is still at an advanced level. With these results, it can be seen that teenagers in four cities can use technology and digital media quite well to communicate, be creative, and find and choose the right information.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 81-91
Author(s):  
Muhammad Fakhrurrazi Anshar ◽  
Tonang Lubis

The family is the first and basic institution among the various responsible social institutions for preparing the child to enter social life, to be a good and effective element in its maintenance on the basis of righteousness, goodness and effective construction. It is the starting point that affects all stages of life, positively and negatively. The first is the marital relationship through birth, nursery, pre-puberty and ending with complete independence after the self-reliance. Childhood took a large part in the Hadiths of the Messenger of God, and the scholars of Hadith who unanimously agreed on the honorable Sunnah of the Prophet took care of this aspect, and they did not neglect the provisions and manners related to the child in all of their books in the field of Hadith. We will follow in this study, the method of children's education, which was mentioned by the hadiths of the Noble Prophet. The Messenger of God, gave the birth of a child a dignified care, for he birth of a child is not an ordinary matter that passes without attention. It is the right of the newborn baby to be called and choose a good name for him, to remove the harm from him, to be tender, to be called upon, to bless him, to teach him and to watch him, and to treat him.


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