Project Details
Description
The health emergency caused by COVID-19 paused the school year worldwide. Costa Rica was not the
exception. In March of 2020, the Ministry of Public Education decided to continue the teaching-learning
process under distance education to avoid the students’ disengagement from education. Later, on
December 15, 2020, MEP announced the return to face-to-face classes under the modality of combined
instruction which included both on site and distance interactions. These processes take us to the need of
knowing teacher’s perceptions regarding the new teaching process. This case study, based on inductive
qualitative research, will collect and triangulate data through semi-structured interviews, document
gathering and photo-elicitation, and content analysis (Hatch, 2002) to categorize the primary school
teachers’ perceptions using WebQDA (Costa et al., 2019), a software designed to analyze qualitative
data. This study aims to describe the perception of six primary English teachers from Dirección Regional
de Educación Norte-Norte regarding combined education for a better comprehension of the pedagogical
mediation practices and professional context of the teachers during the sanitary crisis of COVID-19.
exception. In March of 2020, the Ministry of Public Education decided to continue the teaching-learning
process under distance education to avoid the students’ disengagement from education. Later, on
December 15, 2020, MEP announced the return to face-to-face classes under the modality of combined
instruction which included both on site and distance interactions. These processes take us to the need of
knowing teacher’s perceptions regarding the new teaching process. This case study, based on inductive
qualitative research, will collect and triangulate data through semi-structured interviews, document
gathering and photo-elicitation, and content analysis (Hatch, 2002) to categorize the primary school
teachers’ perceptions using WebQDA (Costa et al., 2019), a software designed to analyze qualitative
data. This study aims to describe the perception of six primary English teachers from Dirección Regional
de Educación Norte-Norte regarding combined education for a better comprehension of the pedagogical
mediation practices and professional context of the teachers during the sanitary crisis of COVID-19.
General Objective
Describir las percepciones de seis docentes de inglés de primaria de la Dirección Regional de
Educación (DRE) Norte-Norte con respecto a la educación combinada para una mejor comprensión de la mediación
pedagógica y del contexto profesional de los docentes durante la crisis sanitaria del COVID-19.
Educación (DRE) Norte-Norte con respecto a la educación combinada para una mejor comprensión de la mediación
pedagógica y del contexto profesional de los docentes durante la crisis sanitaria del COVID-19.
Research Lines
Escuela de Idiomas y Ciencias Sociales del Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Campus Tecnológico Local
San Carlos
1. Cultura, lenguas y literatura
2. Filosofía, sociología, derechos humanos y género
3. Ciencia, tecnología, humanismo
4. Educación, sostenibilidad y Turismo
Escuela de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades de la Universidad Estatal a Distancia de Costa Rica
1. Ciencia, educación y tecnología
San Carlos
1. Cultura, lenguas y literatura
2. Filosofía, sociología, derechos humanos y género
3. Ciencia, tecnología, humanismo
4. Educación, sostenibilidad y Turismo
Escuela de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades de la Universidad Estatal a Distancia de Costa Rica
1. Ciencia, educación y tecnología
| Status | Finished |
|---|---|
| Effective start/end date | 1/01/22 → 31/12/23 |
Keywords
- COVID-19
- combined education
- English teaching
- primary teachers
- qualitative research
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