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This article looks at the Covid-19 pandemic as a contingent factor in, and its revelatory effect on, various contemporary expressions of neoliberal ideology in Latin America. Based on philosophical and psychoanalytical concepts of a Lacanian nature fundamentally proposed by Slavoj Žižek, it examines the critical uses of the notion of ideology in its various manifestations: fear of the other, imposition of the logic of self-promotion, destruction of social ties, extractivism of nature, and fetishization of the discourses of unity in the face of the pandemic. The hypothesis is that the pandemic offers an opportunity to rethink contemporary subjectivity, through a confrontation with the Real that borders on symbolization and, ultimately, ideological capture, in order to question the assertion that there is no alternative. © 2023 Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and Universitat de Girona. All rights reserved.
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Our common sense reaction to “pandemic and philosophy” is that we are in a medical emergency when we have to act decisively and not lose time in philo-sophical ruminations. But what if the tremendous impact of the pandemic on our economy, relations of domination, neocolonial divisions, and our mental health requires precisely a philosophical approach? To understand how the pandemic perturbed our ordinary daily lives, we need to reflect on what it means to be hu-man today, on the customs and rituals that make us “normal” human beings, on the need to invent new normality. The text deals with these basic questions through a critical overview of the existing literature on the current pandemic. © 2021, Discusiones Filosoficas. All Rights Reserved.
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The virtuality imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the redesign of training activities and experiences to digital platforms. This study aims to analyze the experiences of university obstetrics during the period of the COVID-19 pandemic. The approach is qualitative with a phenomenological design. Two discussion groups were held with 14 female obstetrics students from three public universities in Lima, Ica, and Tacna;and two private universities in Arequipa and Cusco. The aspects mentioned by the university students are related to academic uncertainty, being overwhelmed by confinement, concern for the economic future, increased workload, boredom due to the cessation of face-to-face classes, fatigue, and difficulties in carrying out work remotely. © 2021 IEEE.
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This article proposes a retrospective look at the last year following the World Health Organization’s declaration of Covid-19 as a pandemic, and seeks to reflect the wide diversity of its impact. In reviewing research from around the world, a panorama emerges showing the vast complexity of the phenomenon. This article reviews many of the analyses and debates that have been proposed from the framework of political philosophy, which are drawn almost exclusively from the European context. It shows that the suggested diagnoses, models and concepts can not be universally applied across geographies, such as Latin America, Asia or Africa. It therefore proposes to “deglobalize” the Covid-19 pandemic and invites the reader to consider it through another lens. © 2021, Universidade de Brasilia. All rights reserved.
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Editorial materials express the opinions of the scientific community and guides the publication foci;thus, providing insight into the dynamics of the knowledge ecosystem in a scenario that impacts innovation and public policies. The purpose of this bibliometric analysis was to identify the main characteristics of the editorial materials published at the beginning stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, published between 2019 and April 30, 2020 and indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection. A total of 537 editorial materials were written by 1,455 authors, primarily in English, and in the general and internal medicine category. The majority of these editorial materials were published in the British Medical Journal and Lancet. The United States, China, and United Kingdom had the most editorial materials, with Harvard Medical School, Imperial College, and Oxford University were the leading universities. Richard Horton was the most prolific author and the editorial material by Hui et al. (2020) was the most cited. in the initial stage of COVID-19, editorial materials reflected contingent aspects of the course of the infection at the global, regional, and national levels. In the emerging and rapidly developing crisis of COWD-19, editorial materials allow the scientific community to engage in the ongoing discussions. Analysis of editorial materials fosters the understanding of the dynamics of the knowledge ecosystem.
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Higher education institutions have been temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and ceased to operate in person, causing worldwide multiple changes in teacher training, which has included a transformation in teaching methodologies, affected academics of this area. This article addresses the conceptions of academics and teacher educators who teach pedagogy in the current context of pandemic in three regions of the central-southern macrozone of Chile. The study is carried out through a comparative and interpretive perspective. Semi-structured interviews were applied to teacher educators from the following Chilean regions: Maule, Nuble and Bio Bio. The results show a high similarity in the conceptions of the teacher educators of the three regions, revealing emotions of empathy with their students, situations related to adversities in the teaching-learning process and perceived work stress. At the same time, there are various challenges that trainers must face to guarantee quality in the preparation of future teachers. The conclusions of the work suggest that the new educational modality has generated concerns in teacher educators, since it requires a series of resources that a part of the student body does not have and that hinders the development of educational actions. The study suggests that the need emerges for educational policies to deploy various protocols for crisis situations and health emergencies. In addition, the importance of deepening research related to the effects of COVID-19 in higher education and teacher training is highlighted, along with the need of conducting studies on academicians and teacher educators who are the main actors in the initial education of future teachers. They surely play a decisive role in the training of future teachers.
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The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has sickened more than six million people worldwide. This context has led to an abundance of publications quickly since the beginning of the outbreak. In a few months, thousands of scientific papers have appeared. This article aims to provide a bibliometric analysis of the publications on COVID-19 in five high-impact journals indexed to the Web of Science Core Collection's Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) including The Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, Science, Nature, and JAMA-Journal of the American Medical Association. We found 169 documents associated with the search criteria. The findings indicate that China, the United States, and the United Kingdom are the most represented countries in these publications, The Lancet is the journal with the highest number of contributions with 66% of documents, and the University of Hong Kong leads the ranking of institutions. Future bibliometric and scientometric studies on COVID-19 should provide updated information to analyse other relevant indicators in this field.
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The Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic has exceeded five million cases worldwide, and its consequences have been devastating for health and society in general. As part of the health protocols that seek to mitigate the pandemic's effects, school closures were implemented in most countries, where Chile was no exception. In the framework of this article, we seek to give an account of the psychosocial impact of this initiative on Chilean schools and to broaden the reflection to the rest of Latin America. In this sense, we analyze government decisions since the creation of the Aprendo en Linea [I Learn Online] program and propose a contextualization and a contrast with the measures adopted in other countries. We then explore the conditions of the exercise of the teaching activity, its consequences in the family context, and the impact on the relationship between families and schools. This allows us to visualize, once again, not only the structural inequality of the Chilean education system but also its maintenance and eventual deepening. The discussions and measures to be implemented in the current situation pose challenges that, beyond the context of Chile, can be extended to other Latin American countries.
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It reflects on what it means to be a university professor in times of COVID-19 and in contexts of inequality, such is the case of Chile and Honduras, countries where the authors of this editorial came from. © 2020 Universidad Nacional. All rights reserved.