Open AccessCoronavirus Pandemic in Spring and Summer 2020 and the School in Germany
Author(s) -
Dietmar Waterkamp
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international dialogues on education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2198-5944
DOI - 10.53308/ide.v7i1/2.23
Subject(s) - disadvantaged , pandemic , covid-19 , normality , coronavirus , spring (device) , term (time) , mathematics education , political science , psychology , demography , sociology , economic growth , medicine , economics , virology , social psychology , engineering , mechanical engineering , physics , disease , pathology , quantum mechanics , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
What we are doing to continue learning during the current pandemic is not so much an experiment as a reaction. Given the rush to provide schooling for children and young people, helpful terms such as “distance learning”, “online schooling” and “homework” are mentioned. The author notes that both educators and economists are concerned about the short and long-term effects of our situation, especially with regard to disadvantaged groups, and he points out that the “new normality” may well become normal.