Time Out: The Impact of COVID-19 on Education
Date
2021-09
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Publisher
Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI), Kingston, Jamaica
Abstract
This report provides an evidence-informed account of what has happened to education, and to children, in the wave of the pandemic-induced school closures and the shift to remote teaching and learning. It does not seek to evaluate the education sector beyond what pertains directly to this unforeseen, singular, unpredictable, fluid event, the COVID-19 pandemic. This study does the following in order to arrive at this evidence: 1. Situates the COVID-19 school closures in the broader context of the Jamaican education system, with a focus on primary and secondary education. 2. Gives a chronology of events related to COVID-19 school closures in Jamaica. 3. Determines if and how students were disadvantaged by the closure of schools, accounting for the extent to which their pre-existing socioeconomic conditions exacerbated or ameliorated that disadvantage. 4. Describes the responses to the challenges faced, particularly by the state. 5. Estimates the extent to which learning losses can be expected, as well as what the effects of school closures have been on students’ social and emotional development, and the fulfillment of their potential to self-actualize.
Description
Learning Conference on implementing the Sustainable Development Agenda in the Caribbean Region
15-16 May 2019 Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
LIMITED LC/CAR/2019/13 31 October 2019
This study is co-funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office.
Lead Researcher: Stephanie Sewell
Contributing Editor: Maxine Henry-Wilson