Insights from a Catholic school’s transition to distance learning during Covid-19

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dc.contributor.authorWright, Samuel
dc.contributor.authorPark, Yun Soo
dc.contributor.authorSaadé, Ahmed
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-15T11:45:15Z
dc.date.available2022-12-15T11:45:15Z
dc.date.issued2022-11-28
dc.description.abstractDrawing upon 15 semi-structured interviews with teachers at a Catholic school in the British city of Hull, we offer new qualitative insights on the effects of students’ unequal access to digital tools when switching to distance learning in the context of COVID-19 school closures. During the 2020–2021 academic year, this school serving pupils from highly dissimilar socioeconomic backgrounds distributed 300 laptops to students who did not own any digital learning device. It emerges that students with limited access to devices suffered negative impacts on their academic performance, and that this effect also applied to students who had access to a mobile device and hence did not receive a laptop. Our interviews also suggest that having to share a device with another family member leads to more absenteeism and a fall in academic attainment. Low parental involvement is shown to have negative effects on students’ attainment, particularly for children from deprived backgrounds. Finally, poorer students are seen to become isolated from peers, with diminishing social skills throughout lockdowns due to their lack of access to digital tools.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationWright S, Soo Park Y, Saadé A. (2024) Insights from a Catholic school’s transition to distance learning during Covid-19. Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning, Volume 39, Issue 1, March 2024, pp. 37-51en_UK
dc.identifier.issn0268-0513
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/02680513.2022.2152667
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/18831
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherTaylor and Francisen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectCOVID-19en_UK
dc.subjectdigital learningen_UK
dc.subjectdistance learningen_UK
dc.subjecteducational inequalityen_UK
dc.subjectschool closureen_UK
dc.titleInsights from a Catholic school’s transition to distance learning during Covid-19en_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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