Cultural dimensions of the effects of the covid-19 pandemic on university teachers in schools in Colombia and Mexico

DIMENSIONES CULTURALES DE LOS EFECTOS DE LA PANDEMIA DE LA COVID-19 EN DOCENTES UNIVERSITARIOS EN CENTROS EDUCATIVOS DE COLOMBIA Y MÉXICO

The sudden change generated at the time of the context of the Covid -19 pandemic, in university teachers led them to experience changes as a result of confinement where it implied the development of their academic work from another context and making use of other forms and strategies. educational technologies. Objective: To analyze the cultural dimensions of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on university teachers from three educational centers in Colombia and one in Mexico. Methodology: study design: cognitive cultural anthropological, focuses on analyzing how people from different cultures acquire information about the world, how they process it, make decisions and act in ways considered appropriate for other members of their culture (cultural transmission). It is developed in four university centers in Colombia and Mexico, 160 teachers are studied in the first phase of the study through free listings through an open online survey. Findings: the term work overload was included in the four participating sites, with the greatest weight in Bogotá and Cali (Colombia). And in the personal, the presence of COVID-19 itself, negative emotional states, and economic-social effects resulting from prevention measures were highlighted. Also, in complex processes of adaptation, learning and transformation in the use of technological teaching media. Conclusions: the confinement, the uncertainty of the disease, the presence in their families and the changes in the work-family context generated an impact on their professional, personal, economic and social spheres in the teachers of the studied university centers in Colombia and Mexico.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21017/Rev.Repub.2023.v35.a148