Covid-19 - Contingency Situation - Challenges for Education. Situations Experienced in Mozambican Schools

ABSTRACT

The highlighted theme is approached by three pairs of students of the Master Course in Pedagogy and Didactics (MPD) focusing on the concerns that recently have agitated the school environment. The first pair of students aims to bring the relationship between public health and school health within the scope of Covid-19 as a necessary element to ensure a good learning environment for pedagogical success emphasizing that the intention of school health education is to establish conditions for students to build knowledge about it and so keep on in the learning process. The second pair based on the idea that the crisis imposed by the pandemic constitutes a global threat, supported by bibliographic research, presents the main measures taken by schools in order to stop the spread of the pandemic as well as to understand and accept the rationality of the adopted strategies for the continuity of the learning process during the class suspension time and after the face-to-face resumption. The third pair reflects on the effect of the situation currently experienced in formal education in Mozambique aiming at school education centered on new directions based on a reflection on certain current changes resulting from the complex global situation. Considering that sustainability for the plan to return to face-to-face classes requires the improvement of hygiene conditions in schools and other community safety measures, the essence of social sentiment is highlighted. In view of the MPD students’ contributions, two teachers focus on the challenges launched by Covid-19 to Education, namely in regard to the learning environments and the importance of mediation to be maintained by teachers in the new focus with which the teaching-learning process must be engaged. © 2021, Center for Intercultural Studies, Polytechnic of Porto. All rights reserved.