: Italy was the first European country which has been affected by the fast spread of SARS-Cov-2, leading to a general lockdown that started on March 9, 2020, only two weeks after the diagnosis of the Italian patient zero. Such lockdown concerned also the school, that is, the social institution which suffered and keeps suffering the most the negative effects of the national strictions whether because of the lack of precise indications regarding the dactics after the suspension of in-class activities or because of the deficiencies and criticalities that it has been facing since ages. It was only in ril when teachers could eventually resort to e-learning; though, due to the lack of both methodological indications and adequate study plans, each school acted autonomously and the best they could. In most cases, it was the teachers' initiative and individual efforts that led to a successful didactics. As a matter of fact, teachers tried any kind of strategy to keep in touch actively with their students, as testified through the technique of the focus group. Although, in disagreement with the message of hope spread during the lockdown, not everything has gone well; that is, the virus has highlighted a chronical situation of fragility and vulnerability, whose negative consequences and effects seem to persist also in the future. This essay aims at analysing what happened during the first Italian lockdown framing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on a sociocultural dimension. For this purpose, I will take into account the main contextual factors that have contributed to worsen from the didactic and teaching perspective the consequences of the spread of the virus.

L’Italia è stato il primo dei paesi europei ad essere colpito da una diffusione rapida del virus SARS- Cov-2, nell’arco di 15 giorni è entrata in stato di lockdown. La chiusura delle attività ha riguardato anche le scuole e proprio tale istituzione sociale ha maggiormente sofferto gli effetti negativi del blocco nazionale sia per la mancanza di indicazioni chiare sul da farsi sia per la presenza di carenze e di criticità che da anni l’attraversano. Solo in aprile è iniziata la DaD, la didattica a distanza, ma senza indirizzi metodologici né piani formativi che ne guidassero l’azione, ogni scuola si è organizzata come meglio ha potuto. Nella maggior parte dei casi sono stati gli insegnanti a far andare avanti le cose, mettendo in campo ogni tipo di strategia pur di mantenere un contatto attivo con gli studenti, come dimostrano le testimonianze raccolte attraverso lo strumento focus-group. Ma diversamente dal messaggio che in quei giorni si diffondeva nel nostro Paese, non è andato tutto bene: il virus, vale a dire, ha messo in evidenza una situazione cronica di fragilità e di vulnerabilità, esasperandone le conseguenze e probabilmente proiettandone gli effetti negativi anche negli anni futuri. Scopo del presente lavoro è analizzare quanto accaduto durante il lockdown nel tentativo di inquadrare in una dimensione socio-culturale l’impatto della pandemia. In questo senso verranno presi in considerazioni quei fattori contestuali che hanno avuto un ruolo nell’acuire le conseguenze del virus dal punto di vista educativo.

Virus e scuola: riflessioni sui fattori che in Italia hanno acuito le conseguenze dell'emergenza sanitaria [Virus and school: reflections about the factors that have exacerbated the consequences of the health emergency in Italy]

L. La Vecchia
2021

Abstract

: Italy was the first European country which has been affected by the fast spread of SARS-Cov-2, leading to a general lockdown that started on March 9, 2020, only two weeks after the diagnosis of the Italian patient zero. Such lockdown concerned also the school, that is, the social institution which suffered and keeps suffering the most the negative effects of the national strictions whether because of the lack of precise indications regarding the dactics after the suspension of in-class activities or because of the deficiencies and criticalities that it has been facing since ages. It was only in ril when teachers could eventually resort to e-learning; though, due to the lack of both methodological indications and adequate study plans, each school acted autonomously and the best they could. In most cases, it was the teachers' initiative and individual efforts that led to a successful didactics. As a matter of fact, teachers tried any kind of strategy to keep in touch actively with their students, as testified through the technique of the focus group. Although, in disagreement with the message of hope spread during the lockdown, not everything has gone well; that is, the virus has highlighted a chronical situation of fragility and vulnerability, whose negative consequences and effects seem to persist also in the future. This essay aims at analysing what happened during the first Italian lockdown framing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on a sociocultural dimension. For this purpose, I will take into account the main contextual factors that have contributed to worsen from the didactic and teaching perspective the consequences of the spread of the virus.
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