Abstract
The pandemic emergency has had a strong impact on many aspects of life, including education and training. Covid-19 has caused an increase in the risk of learning poverty, which contributes to generating deviance and juvenile crime. In this sense, the contribution aims to analyse these social constructs through a punctual analysis of the national and international scientific literature, the main theories, and current statistics. Subsequently, this study aims to deepen the inclusive value of laboratory teaching, in digital learning environments, as a useful methodology for the prevention and management of acts or behaviours that violate community norms.
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TopThe State Of Global Learning Poverty: Impact Of The Sars-Cov-2 On Education Crisis
The Covid-19 pandemic, an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus (Sars-CoV-2), has impacted many aspects of life, including education and training (Hoofman & Secord, 2021). It has undermined access to educational experiences, at various levels and in the perspective of formal, non-formal, and informal education, causing a “learning catastrophe” (World Bank, 2022 p. 3). This was affirmed by the prestigious and very recent report The State of Global Learning Poverty (2022) jointly drawn up by UNICEF, the World Bank, UNESCO, the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office of the British government (FCDO), USAID and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as major international bodies.
The epidemiological emergency has caused “the worst shock to global education and learning in history” (World Bank, 2022 p. 5) since 1) it has generated an increase in the risk of educational poverty1 (Save the Children, 2020); 2) had an impact on the failure to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs) defined by the 2030 Agenda (UN, 2015); 3) undermined the construction of human capital, the set of knowledge, skills, competencies, and other individual characteristics that facilitate the creation of personal, social and economic well-being. This global crisis has generated, consequently, an exponential increase (with an estimate of 70% in a third of low/middle-income countries) in Learning Poverty, defined as the inability to read and understand a simple written text within 10 years of age2.
Specifically, as highlighted by The State of Global Learning Poverty Report (2022), 53% of children in low- and middle-income countries are unable to read and understand a simple story by the end of primary school; while in the poorest countries, the level reaches 80%.
Key Terms in this Chapter
2: The Learning Poverty Indicator focuses on reading both because it is the gateway to learning in other areas and because it can act as a proxy for basic learning in other disciplines.
6: Education as ivy: from the Latin verb to grow, raise, feed. Educating would thus be an action aimed at raising/growing the individual as best as possible. Education as educere : from the Latin verb to draw out, “to pull out” or “to bring out what is inside, to lead someone who grows by itself by the hand. It recalls the thèrapon, in ancient times the squire-servant who took care of his master from birth and who encouraged him to face the feats of life.
5: Man has freedom of choice precisely so that he could freely become himself, conquer his freedom. Not surprisingly, freedom does not consist in choosing, but in being oneself.
4: It aims to identify the basic structure of society and to understand it by showing the functions performed by its parts.
3: A person is in absolute poverty when he lives in a family that cannot afford the set of goods and services considered essential to maintain a minimally acceptable standard of living. It is estimated that one million three hundred thousand children (12.5%) in Italy alone live in conditions of absolute poverty ( Istat, 2021 ).
7: The term laboratory derives from the medieval Latin laboratorium , in turn linked to the verb laborare . In the modern age (since the seventeenth century), with the development of empirical sciences, the laboratory takes the form of an environment, a place equipped to conduct research according to the methods and with the means specific to each disciplinary sector.
1: Defined through the close correlation between difficult socioeconomic conditions and learning failures (Save the Children, 2018 AU71: The in-text citation "Save the Children, 2018" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ).