Pandemic Acceleration: Covid-19 and the emergency digitalization of European education

Cone, Lucas; Brøgger, Katja; Berghmans, Mieke; Decuypere, Mathias; Förschler, Lea-Annina; Grimaldi, Emiliano; Hartong, Sigrid; Hillman, Thomas; Ideland, Malin; Landri, Paolo; van de Oudeweetering, Karmijn; Player-Koro, Catarina; Bergviken Rensfeldt, Annika; Rönnberg, Linda; Taglietti, Danilo; Vanermen, Lanze

doi:10.1177/14749041211041793

Pandemic Acceleration: Covid-19 and the emergency digitalization of European education

Publication date

2021-09-01

Document type

Research article

Author

Cone, Lucas

Brøgger, Katja

Berghmans, Mieke

Decuypere, Mathias

Förschler, Lea-Annina

Grimaldi, Emiliano

Hartong, Sigrid

Hillman, Thomas

Ideland, Malin

Landri, Paolo

van de Oudeweetering, Karmijn

Player-Koro, Catarina

Bergviken Rensfeldt, Annika

Rönnberg, Linda

Taglietti, Danilo

Vanermen, Lanze

Organisational unit

Transformation von Governance in Bildung und Gesellschaft

DOI

10.1177/14749041211041793

URI

https://openhsu.ub.hsu-hh.de/handle/10.24405/14387

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85114463458

Publisher

Sage Publishing

Series or journal

European educational research journal

ISSN

1474-9041

Periodical volume

21

Periodical issue

5

First page

845

Last page

868

Peer-reviewed

✅

Part of the university bibliography

✅

Language

English

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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