Through Thick and Thin: Lower Secondary School Students' Barriers to Learning under Covid-19 Conditions

ABSTRACT

[...]as noted by the Human Rights Council of the United Na- tions (2020), under Covid-19 pandemic conditions 'students with disabilities are facing barriers on account of the absence of required equipment, access to the internet, accessible materials and support necessary to permit them to follow online school programmes. [...]many students with disabilities are being left behind, particularly students with intellectual disabilities' (p. 6). [...]the focus of the present article is on how the pandemic has affected different students, what learning barriers they have faced, and how the school can help overcome these learning barriers. [...]the results of the research and a discussion are provided on the basis of the performed inductive thematic analysis.