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Unequal Educational Opportunities and Challenges in Online Learning during the Pandemic in India

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Review of Development and Change; 2024Description: 25-43ISSN:
  • 0972-2661
Subject(s): Online resources: Summary: Enforcing online classes during the lockdown due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic worsened the living and learning conditions of students from the most marginalised sections in India. Against this backdrop, this study seeks to shed light on the risk of the rapid adaptation of online teaching methods under extremely unfavourable educational conditions and poor educational infrastructure in India. The evolved system was entrenched in the existing social and educational inequalities that were exacerbated by ever-growing private educational providers. This almost limited the vulnerable group in finding choices of learning through the online mode necessitated by the lockdown. Traditional teaching and learning practices were implicated not only due to the existing social arrangements but also due to the shift to the online mode of learning with the adaptation of digital technology during the pandemic crisis, which has deeply disrupted the current educational scenario as well. Critical lessons learned from the recent catastrophic events will provide a political vision to outline an inclusive approach to designing sustainable educational planning and programmes targeting the most vulnerable sections of the population. This also reminds us that hasty and cosmetic solutions would do more harm to the poor than to the rich, thereby leading to everlasting damage to educational and social systems.
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Enforcing online classes during the lockdown due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic worsened the living and learning conditions of students from the most marginalised sections in India. Against this backdrop, this study seeks to shed light on the risk of the rapid adaptation of online teaching methods under extremely unfavourable educational conditions and poor educational infrastructure in India. The evolved system was entrenched in the existing social and educational inequalities that were exacerbated by ever-growing private educational providers. This almost limited the vulnerable group in finding choices of learning through the online mode necessitated by the lockdown. Traditional teaching and learning practices were implicated not only due to the existing social arrangements but also due to the shift to the online mode of learning with the adaptation of digital technology during the pandemic crisis, which has deeply disrupted the current educational scenario as well. Critical lessons learned from the recent catastrophic events will provide a political vision to outline an inclusive approach to designing sustainable educational planning and programmes targeting the most vulnerable sections of the population. This also reminds us that hasty and cosmetic solutions would do more harm to the poor than to the rich, thereby leading to everlasting damage to educational and social systems.

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