ABSTRACT
TRASCIENDE, as a research team, arose from the need to articulate a collaborative project between Full Inclusion-CLM and the UCLM for social, scientific, academic, and professional transformation in the field of disability, inclusion, and citizenship. As a result of the socio-health situation provoked by COVID-19, the TRASCIENDE team has been involved in the social change produced by confinement, necessarily developing a role of observer of the change. This global situation leads us to ask ourselves questions that aim to initiate research processes in practice: how has this confinement affected practices in early care? To answer this question we decided to adopt a qualitative research perspective to explore the perceptions of families and professionals (speech therapists, physiotherapists, stimulators and coordinators) of Early Care teams, their difficulties and their strengths in this situation of change. The work describes a process of exploring practices during the first months of confinement, practices that have been directed, in many cases, towards tele-intervention. Data has been collected through ethnographic interviews (families) and focus groups (professionals) and has been processed through thematic analysis (Attride-Stirling, 2001). The results show the perception of families and professionals articulated in three thematic network focuses: the personal and collective reaction to the new situation, what can remain of the tele-intervention (with its nuances) and what underlies the practices in this modality. The study also opens new lines of future research which evidence the difficulty of the process of transformation towards actual family-centred models. © 2021 University of Salamanca. All rights reserved.
ABSTRACT
The convulsive and tense political-social context that Latin America and the Caribbean have traditionally presented seems that, instead of being minimized, it may be even more so because of the economic impacts that the recent health pandemic that is hitting the world is leaving in the region . COVID 19 hits developing countries the hardest, which were already in a complicated political, economic and social situation, of precariousness and inequality, and which, with this global health crisis, will only get worse. This crisis affects all socioeconomic orders and, how could it be otherwise, this will also be reflected in the tourism sector, which, before the pandemic, was identified by the vast majority of the governments of the region as one of the axes tractors to drive economic development. An industry that was considered key due to its ability to have an impact on all social sectors and mainly due to its growth capacity in the medium term, but which unfortunately was hit squarely by the collateral consequences produced by the health pandemic and that ruined with the vast majority of tourist strategies. The general and main objective of this article is to describe the existing tourist differences in this region, analyze and interpret the effects that COVID-19 has had, reflect on the role that sustainability should have, especially economic and social, and treat to interpret what the future of tourism may be, especially in rural environments, since it is where the incidence of this disaster is most felt, since the conditions of poverty and vulnerability of people are more evident than in urban environments. In this sense, some of the data emerged in this work show harsh, but at the same time hopeful, opinions within the tourism sector that highlight the importance that trends related to new tourism models may have, such as, for example, regenerative tourism. . The development of the work has been carried out through a qualitative methodology, analyzing reports, research and documents prepared by the main international institutions present in the region. One of the conclusions that this study contributes is that the future outlook for the analyzed societies entails taking more hygiene measures for the tourism industry and guaranteeing a perceived security for the visitor greater than in other regions of the world. Two urgent needs of the region's tourism industry to try to be competitive are also revealed in the present work. One is the digitalization and technological modernization of the tourism sector in rural areas, and the other is greater support and institutional and governmental involvement that serve as the backbone for businessmen, entrepreneurs and cooperative members.