- Title
- Schooling upheaval during COVID-19: troubling consequences for students’ return to school
- Creator
- Fray, Leanne; Jaremus, Felicia; Gore, Jennifer; Harris, Jess
- Relation
- AER Vol. 50, Issue 5, p. 1533-1550
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-022-00572-x
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- Efforts to contain the COVID-19 virus resulted in various stay-at-home orders and school closures around the globe, causing unprecedented disruption to the lives of children and generating grave concern for their well-being. This study draws on phone interviews with 12 teachers and 6 school leaders from 13 government schools in New South Wales, Australia, to provide insight into how students fared on their return to school after the first wave of COVID-19 in 2020. The interviews highlighted negative consequences for many students including increased stress and anxiety and decreased engagement. This evidence suggests that even a comparatively short period of school closure can drive troubling changes in students’ well-being and behaviour following their return to school. Given far more challenging conditions arising from the pandemic, both elsewhere in Australia and globally, we argue that attending to student well-being is as important as ensuring academic achievement and must be a key focus of policy makers and education systems moving forward.
- Subject
- student well-being; COVID-19; pandemic; public school; primary education
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1500543
- Identifier
- uon:54952
- Identifier
- ISSN:0311-6999
- Language
- eng
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