Open AccessCovid 19 and Higher Education in Brazil: different uses of virtual communication technologies and educational inequalities
Author(s) -
André Pires
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
educación/educación
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2304-4322
pISSN - 1019-9403
DOI - 10.18800/educacion.202101.004
Subject(s) - inequality , pandemic , covid-19 , homogeneous , virtual lab , order (exchange) , higher education , sociology , mathematics education , political science , computer science , mathematics , economic growth , multimedia , business , economics , medicine , virology , mathematical analysis , disease , finance , pathology , combinatorics , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The article aims to discuss the effects of the Covid 19 pandemic on Brazilian higher education in 2020. The experience of remote classes, using virtual communication technologies during the pandemic, changed the learning relationships between teachers and students. These changes did not happened in a homogeneous and linear manner. This text discusses the different uses of these technologies and how these processes have contributed to strengthening existing educational inequalities. The arguments were structured in three moments, in order to consider processes that occurred before, during and after the pandemic. To deal with education inequalities after the pandemic, three challenges are suggested.