ABSTRACT
The article addresses how the application of the principles of andragogy is perceived in basic education during the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru. This study has a naturist view, follows a research methodology with a phenomenological design and a quality approach. The analysis is engaged from an interview application semi structured as an instrument applied to twelve teachers in public and private institutions of basic regular education in Peru. Among the results it was found in the teachers training process changing from formal education to online had many issues in its execution due to lack of strategies and technological resources. Besides, most teachers expressed their unconformity with the loaded work process and training they received although they had improvements within their media capabilities. In this sense, teachers manifested the lack of the horizontal principle from the andragogy principle, opposite to this they developed the participation and synergy between professors to face challenges. Furthermore, its manifested in this study that due to the training and transitioning's process complexities some teachers decided to drop out of their educational facilities. The answers obtained offer information to forecast the teachers training in events of worldwide disaster such as COVID-19. According to the results obtained in this study we can have the teachers training process general view highlighting social inequity, educational and digital that has been installed for a long time in these educational systems, both public and private sectors. © 2022 IEEE.