School Lockdown? Comparative Analyses of Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in European Countries

Autor/inn/en	Lindblad, Sverker; Wärvik, Gun-Britt; Berndtsson, Inger; Jodal, Elsi-Brith; Lindqvist, Anders; Messina Dahlberg, Giulia; Papadopoulos, Dimitrios; Runesdotter, Caroline; Samuelsson, Katarina; Udd, Jonas; Wyszynska Johansson, Martina
Titel	School Lockdown? Comparative Analyses of Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in European Countries
Quelle	In: European Educational Research Journal, 20 (2021) 5, S.564-583 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Lindblad, Sverker) ORCID (Wärvik, Gun-Britt) ORCID (Berndtsson, Inger) ORCID (Papadopoulos, Dimitrios) ORCID (Runesdotter, Caroline) ORCID (Samuelsson, Katarina) ORCID (Udd, Jonas) ORCID (Wyszynska Johansson, Martina)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1474-9041
DOI	10.1177/14749041211041237
Schlagwörter	School Closing; Comparative Education; COVID-19; Pandemics; Foreign Countries; Elementary Schools; Prevention; Public Health; Distance Education; Denmark; Finland; Germany; Greece; Italy; Norway; Poland; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? School closings; Schule; Schließung; Schließung (von Schulen); Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Ausland; Elementary school; Grundschule; Volksschule; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Gesundheitswesen; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Dänemark; Finnland; Deutschland; Griechenland; Italien; Norwegen; Polen; Schweden
Abstract	The purpose of this article is to analyse how education and schooling took part in handling the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in eight European countries (Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Poland and Sweden). The focus is on primary education and on decisions to close schools, or not. Our research was informed by assemblage theory in order to analyse how different components interacted in developing societal responses to mitigate the pandemic. The research was designed as a comparative case study of practical reasoning in diverse contexts. Data sources were the mass media and statements from governments and authorities. Our analyses showed that decisions to close schools, or not, were based on two alternative discourses on schooling. Closing primary schools was a preventive measure underlined by discourses of schools as places for infection. Keeping primary schools open was underlined by a discourse in which schools were conceived of as a place for social supportive measures and caring. Furthermore, the closing alternative was often combined with attempts to replace school practices by distance learning or computerized instruction. Legal constitutions and lawmaking were of significant importance in selecting discourses and the relative impact of different components, mostly political or medical, in responding to the pandemic. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01