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Publication Date: August 25, 2022
DOI:10.14738/assrj.98.12875. Hernandez, J. A. V., Guevara, E. M., Zepeda, J. A. R., & Anaya, A. M. (2022). Current Perspective of Education in the Face of
Psychological Challenges and Addictions Caused by the Pandemic. Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 9(8). 307-314.
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Current Perspective of Education in the Face of Psychological
Challenges and Addictions Caused by the Pandemic
Jorge Arturo Velázquez Hernández
Teacher-Researcher, Autonomous University of Querétaro
Faculty of Arts Campus San Juan del Río
Epigmenio Muñoz Guevara
Teacher-Researcher, Autonomous University of Querétaro
Faculty of Chemistry University Center
Jorge Adam Romero Zepeda
Teacher-Researcher, Autonomous University of Querétaro
Faculty of Engineering Campus Concá
Agustin Martinez Anaya
Teacher-Researcher, Autonomous University of Querétaro
Faculty of Law Campus Amealco
ABSTRACT
When talking about education, many meanings and references come to mind, since
each person interprets this concept based on their ideals and knowledge, and
therefore, it is necessary to know all the actions that are carried out for their
benefit, from the level basic to superior, because in the end it seeks to implement a
quality education that allows increasing the knowledge of students through the
teaching-learning process. In 2021, the global pandemic caused by COVID 19 caused
a new vision, perception, reality, challenges and empathy with everyone in the
world. In this sense, the central issue of highest priority is education, since the
pandemic teaches us as a society to understand and reflect on all the cases and
actions in our day to day. This pressure goes beyond news regarding the health
contingency, emphasis should be placed on 3 specific issues that are Education,
Psychology and Addiction. These terms involve a deep analysis about what
happened on the educational side,
Keywords: Arts, Addictions, Education, Didactic strategies, Psychology.
INTRODUCTION
In the present investigation, various positions are exposed where the purpose is to elucidate
the benefits and repercussions that virtual education has had, forcibly generated by the global
confinement that was experienced due to the SARS CoV-2 virus that causes the so-called COVID
19 disease. In this sense, clear and precise information is developed through examples and
experiences where different subtopics will be addressed, without losing the central axis that is
the current perspective of Art Education in the face of the psychological challenges and
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addictions caused by the pandemic, highlighting those situations that have manifested as a
result of the contingency.
The topics that are exposed seek to leave a more accurate reference of the experiences and
feelings of both students and teachers that have been created and deepened due to the forced
confinement and the modification of teaching, all of this in response to the changes that the
instances educational institutions did to safeguard the integrity of all. These items are:
• The arts.
• psychological insights
• Generation of addictions and new addictions.
Broadly speaking, within the theme of the arts, the modifications that have had to be carried
out to continue with this work within education will be manifested, but safeguarding the
integrity and health of all. On the subject of pedagogical effects, current information verified
with data from previous years will be explained to reach a conclusion.
On the other hand, it will begin with figures that will allow deductions to be made about the
work carried out by teachers and in this way arrive at a thesis for an approach to individual
improvement. In the last topic, an investigation will be developed on addictions and how COVID
19 has affected these drugs, showing essential statistics, data, quotes and conclusions for the
educational topic.
Finally, a conclusion will be generated aimed at showing that virtual education may or may not
be beneficial for the rest, in the end it depends a lot on the teacher, his teaching, the didactic
tools he uses, and at the same time, recognize that it is the work of the students to put all its
efforts to generate knowledge through the different platforms where classes are taught,
whether face-to-face, virtual or hybrid.
Current education in the face of health contingency
There are many causes and consequences derived from the pandemic, from personal issues to
the repercussions that education at all levels has experienced. It was not easy to migrate to a
virtual modality to continue with the tasks that the human being did, but it was necessary to
continue advancing.
It is necessary for teachers to discover that our task is arduous when it comes to guiding
students' learning, allowing them to be able to face the reality that surrounds them, being
critical, creators, builders of their learning, managing to develop skills such as: reflection,
analysis , critical synthesis, innovation and creativity (Coronado, 2021).
Teachers and all those involved in the educational system need to offer a variety of teaching
tools to students so that they can obtain significant learning that will help them in their day-to- day life to address present and future problems. Perhaps we are experiencing a global impact
where no one was prepared to migrate to virtual and distance education, but all this was with
the intention of safeguarding the health and integrity of the population.
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Our current education system assigns great importance to whether or not to pass an exam, or
a course, pass to the next, or even stay in school, depend on mastering or memorizing certain
pieces of information, which the teacher already knows. In this way, the function of teaching
seems to be reduced to training people capable of collecting pieces of information and repeating
it at a given signal. Once a student has built up some competence in providing the right bits of
information at the right time, he or she is deemed fit to graduate from that school. The most
annoying thing about this situation is that this ability to repeat information may have very little
relation to that of "useful and well-adapted member" that we thought we were forming
(Hernández, 2015: 64).
Changes cost and are good, and what is needed is that everyone do their part. It cannot be
judged by saying that virtual education is useless when students do not make an effort, they
apparently spend their time in virtual classes, but in reality they are playing or doing other
activities. In the same way, teachers must express the same energy as if it were a face-to-face
class and motivate their students every day so that they do not give up and help them express
their concerns with the intention of improving their learning process and acquiring the
knowledge. necessary to face the present and future scenarios that the student will experience
inside and outside of class.
Psychological consequences derived from the pandemic
The pandemic has not only caused havoc at the level of desertion or lack of interest in students
for their virtual classes, but also generated many psychological repercussions due to the forced
confinement that had to be lived for more than two years. For most people with psychological
disorders such as depression and anxiety, confinement has devastated them, leading them to a
state of great stress and increasing their suffering.
One of the main points that must be analyzed is social isolation. Given this, Ruiz (2020) in an
interview with Iría Grande, secretary of the Spanish Society of Psychiatry mentions that tAll
these people had the support of going to a center, to a day hospital, because all these resources
have been closed due to the state of alarm, the support they had has decreased as a result, and
theproblem is greater due to various external and internal factors such as loss of relatives,
isolation, loneliness, lack of work, and lack of help to which they cannot access.
Young people tend to suffer more uncertainty about the future, the effects of unemployment
also have more commitment to caring for children or the elderly, and a worse economic
situation. These same aspects have been observed in other crises. The following reasons may
be behind the appearance of anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress:
• Direct impact of infection.
• Grief over loss of family and friends.
• Unemployment.
• confinement measures.
• Economic uncertainty.
• Health deficiencies: primary care, mental health (López, 2020).
As a society, it is important not only empathy but also solidarity when knowing these cases, and
as a family, professional, personal responsibility, it falls within our reach to be able to detect as