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How was school life during WWII? People have been comparing the current Covid-19 pandemic with a war/war-like situation, pointing also to war effort measures to overcome the crisis. There is a great concern with school life today. So, how was it...
How was school life during WWII? People have been comparing the current Covid-19 pandemic with a war/war-like situation, pointing also to war effort measures to overcome the crisis. There is a great concern with school life today. So, how was it...
back during the last war with a direct impact on a global scale? How governments and societies managed to teach the children during the 6-year long conflict, especially in Europe and the Pacific regions?
I have many colleagues discussing this issue in Brazil today. Online-teaching being the most natural response from the government and some of the private schools to the current isolation imposed on us, but I see much resistance from the teachers...
and even professors at the university I work. The most common arguments on this are:
1 - not all students have access to the internet.
2 - if we teach online courses, or (especially) record them for online teaching, then we'll be fired and the school/university...
1 - not all students have access to the internet.
2 - if we teach online courses, or (especially) record them for online teaching, then we'll be fired and the school/university...
is going to keep our material, learning how disposable we are/might be.
I do have some opinions on both of these arguments:
I do have some opinions on both of these arguments:
1 - This might be true for Brazil, but at the university, I actually see the opposite. It is rather difficult to keep the students checking their smartphones every 5 minutes during classes, even when they're supposed to be taking notes or discussing...
the topics being presented. So I do not believe there is a major access problem regarding the students at the university, which would keep them from participating in online courses.
2 - That this might be the case on some private schools I don't disagree. Here, the only possible escape is to copyright the entire material prior to delivering it to the school. Public school teachers don't have to panic about this, because they are still protected...
against being fired from the government. This could however occur if they disobey and keep from teaching, which then opens up the legal way for the government to dismiss them.
So, let's go back to the WWII context and departing though of this thread. As far as I know, back then there was an effort to keep thing going as good as they could. People (and teachers and students are people) didn't just panicked and stopped teaching/learning
but tried to find solutions that considered the context of war. We ought to do the same now. Moaning and panicking are not acceptable answers now as they weren't back then. Stay home should not mean do nothing.
