Home schooling, remote teaching and digital Bildung in societal crisis

Abstract

We live in a time of "epistemic uncertainty" (Kay & King 2020) and where home schooling and remote teaching as a consequence of COVID-19 has become a global phenomenon in recent months By 19 March 2020, 102 countries globally had shut all schools, affecting almost 900 million children and youth (UNESCO 2020, OECD 2020) Further school shutdowns have continued from 19 March up to June 2020, involving more countries and regions and impacting over 60% of the world's student population (UNESCO 2020) And UNESCO "is supporting countries in their efforts to mitigate the immediate impact of school closures, particularly for more vulnerable and disadvantaged communities, and to facilitate the continuity of education for all through remote learning" (p 1) Since WHO (2020) states that we will probably experience similar pandemics as COVID-19 in the future, there is reason to believe that home schooling and remote teaching will affect and partly change education in the years to come We therefore need to build on the current state of knowledge, examining "how teachers teach and learners learn" in this extraordinary coronavirus situation as well as how this affects pupils' digital Bildung journey © 2019 Author(s)