COVID-19 AND EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION: A REVIEW OF LITERATURE
COVID-19 AND EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION: A REVIEW OF LITERATURE
Author(s): Anthonia Ayobami OYELADE, Adebola Oladiji ALABA, Muhammed Lanre AKINLOYE, Grace Igaba ONONGHASubject(s): State/Government and Education, Health and medicine and law, Sociology of Education
Published by: Ediktura Beladi
Keywords: COVID-19; Pandemic; Lockdown; Distance learning; Educational Administration;
Summary/Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic caused the largest disruption of education system in human history, affecting nearly 1.6 billion learners in more than 200 countries. Closures of schools, institutions and other learning spaces have impacted more than 94% of the world’s student population. This has brought far reaching changes in all aspects of our lives. Social distancing and restrictive movement policies have significantly disturbed traditional educational practices. Several schools, colleges and universities have discontinued face-to-face teachings. The need of the hour is to innovate and implement alternative educational system and assessment strategies. The COVID-19 has provided us with an opportunity to pave the way for introducing distance learning. This article makes a review of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the attendant lockdown on teaching and learning and general educational administration viz-a-viz impact of COVID-19 on education system, inequality in access to learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, approaches to distance learning during the pandemic, COVID-19 and education finance, challenges in teaching and learning to draw conclusion and make recommendations.
Journal: Revista Universitară de Sociologie
- Issue Year: XVIII/2022
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 26-34
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English
