Pandemic Acceleration:: Covid-19 and the emergency digitalization of European education

Lucas Cone; Katja Brøgger; Mieke  Berghmans; Mathias  Decuypere; Annina  Förschler; Emiliano  Grimaldi; Sigrid  Hartong; Thomas  Hillman; Malin  Ideland; Paolo  Landri; Karmijn   van de Oudeweetering; Catarina  Player-Koro; Annika Bergviken  Rensfeldt; Linda  Rönnberg; Danilo  Taglietti; Lanze  Vanermen

doi:10.1177/14749041211041793

Pandemic Acceleration: Covid-19 and the emergency digitalization of European education

Lucas Cone^*
, Katja Brøgger
, Mieke Berghmans
, Mathias Decuypere
, Annina Förschler
, Emiliano Grimaldi
, Sigrid Hartong
, Thomas Hillman
, Malin Ideland
, Paolo Landri
, Karmijn van de Oudeweetering
, Catarina Player-Koro
, Annika Bergviken Rensfeldt
, Linda Rönnberg
, Danilo Taglietti
, Lanze Vanermen

^*Corresponding author for this work

Danish School of Education - Education Studies, Emdrup

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Abstract

With schools and universities closing across Europe, the Covid-19 lockdown left actors in the field of education battling with the unprecedented challenge of finding a meaningful way to keep the wheels of education turning online. The sudden need for digital solutions across the field of education resulted in the emergence of a variety of digital networks and collaborative online platforms. In this joint article from scholars around Europe, we explore the Covid-19 lockdowns of physical education across the European region, and the different processes of emergency digitalization that followed in their wake. Spanning perspectives from Italy, Germany, Belgium, and the Nordic countries, the article’s five cases provide a glimpse of how these processes have at the same time accelerated and consolidated the involvement of various commercial and non-commercial actors in public education infrastructures. By gathering documentation, registering dynamics, and making intimations of the crisis as it unfolded, the aim of the joint paper is to provide an opportunity for considering the implications of these accelerations and consolidations for the heterogeneous futures of European education.

Original language	English
Journal	European Educational Research Journal - EERJ
Volume	21
Issue	5
Pages (from-to)	845-868
Number of pages	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/14749041211041793
Publication status	Published - Sept 2022

Keywords

Digitalization
Soft privatization
Public education
Covid-19
Boundary spanning
Platformization
soft privatization
boundary spanning
platformization
public education
Samfund/samtid
Social ulighed
Teknologiforståelse
Uddannelsespolitik

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Brøgger, K. (Project manager), Krejsler, J. B. (Participant), Cort, P. S. (Participant), Plotnikof, M. (Participant), Staunæs, D. (Participant), Smedegaard Ernst Bengtsen, S. (Participant), Harsbo, R. (Participant), Møller Schmidt, B. (Participant), Anbert, L. C. (Participant), Khawaja, I. (Participant), Nielsen, G. B. (Participant) & Sandager, J. (Participant)
European Co-operation in Science and Technology
01/03/2019 → …
Project: Research

PRIVATOPIA - Research Network on the Privatization of European Education
Cone, L. L. (Member) & Brøgger, K. (Member)
4 Sept 2019
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Cone, L., Brøgger, K., Berghmans, M., Decuypere, M., Förschler, A., Grimaldi , E., Hartong, S., Hillman, T., Ideland, M., Landri , P., van de Oudeweetering, K., Player-Koro , C., Rensfeldt, A. B., Rönnberg, L., Taglietti, D., & Vanermen, L. (2022). Pandemic Acceleration: Covid-19 and the emergency digitalization of European education. European Educational Research Journal - EERJ, 21(5), 845-868. https://doi.org/10.1177/14749041211041793

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Pandemic Acceleration: Covid-19 and the emergency digitalization of European education. / Cone, Lucas; Brøgger, Katja; Berghmans, Mieke et al.
In: European Educational Research Journal - EERJ, Vol. 21, No. 5, 09.2022, p. 845-868.

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Pandemic Acceleration: Covid-19 and the emergency digitalization of European education

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