Pandemic Acceleration: Covid-19 and the emergency digitalization of European education
Publication date
2021
Document type
Research article
Author
Cone, Lucas
Brøgger, Katja
Berghmans, Mieke
Decuypere, Mathias
Förschler, Lea-Annina
Grimaldi, Emiliano
Hillman, Thomas
Ideland, Malin
Landri, Paolo
van de Oudeweetering, Karmijn
Player-Koro, Catarina
Bergviken Rensfeldt, Annika
Rönnberg, Linda
Taglietti, Danilo
Vanermen, Lanze
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European educational research journal
Peer-reviewed
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Keyword
Boundary spanning
COVID-19
Digitalization
Platformization
Public education
Soft privatization
Abstract
With schools and universities closing across Europe, the Covid-19 lockdown left actors in the field of education battling with the unprecedented challenge of finding a meaningful way to keep the wheels of education turning online. The sudden need for digital solutions across the field of education resulted in the emergence of a variety of digital networks and collaborative online platforms. In this joint article from scholars around Europe, we explore the Covid-19 lockdowns of physical education across the European region, and the different processes of emergency digitalization that followed in their wake. Spanning perspectives from Italy, Germany, Belgium, and the Nordic countries, the article’s five cases provide a glimpse of how these processes have at the same time accelerated and consolidated the involvement of various commercial and non-commercial actors in public education infrastructures. By gathering documentation, registering dynamics, and making intimations of the crisis as it unfolded, the aim of the joint paper is to provide an opportunity for considering the implications of these accelerations and consolidations for the heterogeneous futures of European education.
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