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In this article we investigate the supports of school experiences, attending to the types of institutional offer of secondary level, in a context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the gradual return to face-To-face classes in Argentina. The empirical data come from the study "Diversification of the secondary school structure and educational segmentation in Latin America" by ECLAC-IIEP UNESCO Buenos Aires and UNICEF, where focus groups and semi-structured interviews were carried out. In this article we are going to focus into the Student Center and the demands for the right to comprehensive sexual education (ESI) that, as instances of participation and sociability appear, from youth narratives, as privileged supports of school experiences. © 2023 Verlag Vervuert. All rights reserved.
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The objective of the research was to know the socio-emotional well-being of students, teachers, and parents of some public schools in the province of Curico-Chile, in the context of the pandemic and virtuality.The participants were 49 people who belong to public primary schools in the Province of Curico, Chile.The research design was cross-sectional descriptive with a mixed approach, using quantitative techniques: Natural Semantic Networks (NSR), and qualitative: semi-structured interviews and identity drawing. Descriptive statistics and microanalysis elements of the Grounded Theory were used in the data analysis.The findings evidenced a discrepancy in the emotions of the teaching staff, new socio-emotional experiences and domestic routines on the part of the parents, and formative experiences of the student body with various obstacles and diverse emotions. Of the latter, the most recurrent were frustration, sadness, and fear. On the other hand, there is a wide appreciation of the community of the face-to-face socio-educational context over the virtual one. It is recommended to promote social-emotional well-being, for it represents an element in the formation of the human being, through strategies such as emotion recognition drawings in teachers, students, and parents.
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BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has caused problems with respirator supplies. Re-use may minimize the impact of the shortage, but requires the availability of an efficient and safe decontamination method. AIM: To determine whether low-temperature-steam-2%-formaldehyde (LTSF) sterilization is effective, preserves the properties of filtering facepiece (FFP) respirators and allows safe re-use. METHODS: Fourteen unused FFP2, FFP3 and N95 respirator models were subjected to two cycles of decontamination cycles. After the second cycle, each model was inspected visually and accumulated residual formaldehyde levels were analysed according to EN 14180. After one and two decontamination cycles, the fit factor (FF) of each model was tested, and penetration tests with sodium chloride aerosols were performed on five models. FINDINGS: Decontamination physically altered three of the 14 models. All of the residual formaldehyde values were below the permissible threshold. Irregular decreases and increases in FF were observed after each decontamination cycle. In the sodium chloride aerosol penetration test, three models obtained equivalent or superior results to those of the FFP classification with which they were marketed, both at baseline and after one and two cycles of decontamination, and two models had lower filtering capacity. CONCLUSION: One and two decontamination cycles using LTSF did not alter the structure of most (11/14) respirators tested, and did not degrade the fit or filtration capacity of any of the analysed respirators. The residual formaldehyde levels complied with EN 14180. This reprocessing method could be used in times of shortage of personal protective equipment.