Rural education in times of COVID-19. Experiences of pedagogical continuity in the primary schools of Maipú, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Abstract

This work presents the results of an inquiry made to teachers of primary schools located in the rural area of ​​Maipú about the teaching and communication proposals that they have implemented to attend to pedagogical continuity in this current context of social, preventive isolation and mandatory (ASPO), implemented since mid-March 2020. Teachers in rural schools have a long history of developing a particular dynamic that has allowed them to face this scenario more quickly, thanks to the experience acquired in work with students and their families, where they are already part of the school, with long periods of not being present. However, in these spaces there are very heterogeneous situations because not all fathers, mothers and families have the time or the necessary skills to be able to accompany pedagogical continuity, and in these situations sustain distance education in very long times, and with lack of mobile devices and / or little or no Internet signal, pedagogical continuity is very difficult.