School lockdown? Comparative analyses of responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in European countries
School lockdown? Comparative analyses of responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in European countries
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DOI：
10.1177/14749041211041237
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发表时间：
2021-09-01
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Wyszynska Johansson, Martina
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作者：
Lindblad, Sverker;Warvik, Gun-Britt;Wyszynska Johansson, Martina
本文的目的是分析在8个欧洲国家(丹麦、芬兰、德国、希腊、意大利、挪威、波兰和瑞典)，教育和学校教育如何参与应对新冠肺炎大流行的早期阶段。重点是小学教育和关闭或不关闭学校的决定。我们的研究受到集合论的启发，以分析不同组成部分如何在制定社会反应以缓解流行病方面相互作用。本研究旨在对不同情境下的实践推理进行比较研究。数据来源是大众媒体和各国政府和当局的声明。我们的分析表明，关闭或不关闭学校的决定是基于两种关于学校教育的不同论述。关闭小学是一项预防措施，有关学校是感染场所的论述强调了这一点。学校被视为社会支持措施和关怀的场所，这一论述强调了保持小学开放的重要性。此外，结案替代办法往往与试图用远程学习或电脑化教学取代学校做法相结合。法律宪法和立法在选择话语和不同组成部分在应对这一流行病方面的相对影响方面非常重要，主要是政治或医疗方面。
The purpose of this article is to analyse how education and schooling took part in handling the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in eight European countries (Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Poland and Sweden). The focus is on primary education and on decisions to close schools, or not. Our research was informed by assemblage theory in order to analyse how different components interacted in developing societal responses to mitigate the pandemic. The research was designed as a comparative case study of practical reasoning in diverse contexts. Data sources were the mass media and statements from governments and authorities. Our analyses showed that decisions to close schools, or not, were based on two alternative discourses on schooling. Closing primary schools was a preventive measure underlined by discourses of schools as places for infection. Keeping primary schools open was underlined by a discourse in which schools were conceived of as a place for social supportive measures and caring. Furthermore, the closing alternative was often combined with attempts to replace school practices by distance learning or computerized instruction. Legal constitutions and lawmaking were of significant importance in selecting discourses and the relative impact of different components, mostly political or medical, in responding to the pandemic.