Social Representations of University Students During Their Distance Education By Pandemic By COVID 19

Abstract

The present communication aims to know the social representations (Moscovici, 2013), that students of two public universities have had during their distance education due to the pandemic and how their learning practices have been transformed using different tools. The methodology used is qualitative with a descriptive approach using in-depth interviews. The research participants are 4 students from two public universities studying at a distance during the last four semesters (2020-2022). The study allows understanding the meaning of social representations considering their interests, needs and motivations that respond to socio-cultural-economic patterns established since the confinement due to the COVID 19 pandemic, it is emphasized in identifying the teaching and learning situations from the personal experiences they assume as a social group (Jodelete, 1986). The main results are presented organized in three themes: 1. Use and employment of educational technologies used at a distance during the pandemic; 2. Conclusions are presented, recognizing in a comparative way the challenges, difficulties, convergences, divergences and areas of opportunity that students in both universities experienced during this important stage of their university education, ending with the bibliography consulted in this study.