PRESCHOOL EDUCATORS’ OPINIONS AND PRACTICES DURING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF EMERGENCY REMOTE TEACHING DUE TO THE PANDEMIC OF COVID-19

Abstract

One of the consequences of the pandemic of Covid-19 was the closure of schools, forcing the implementation of education online. The present research project focuses on Greek preschool education and aims to analyze the actions, practices, and opinions of preschool education teachers during the Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) in the school years 2019-2021. Moreover, the present study aims to compare the consecutive school closures and highlight their similarities and differences concerning the implementation of the ERT in Greek preschool education. The research project is taking into consideration multiple variables of the preschool teachers’ experience, such as the educational practices, partnership with parents, received support, perceived pros, and cons, suggestions for improvement of the ERT, as well as the attitudes and opinions on ERT and how it affected traditional teaching and the potential future complementary use of distance learning in kindergarten. The research was conducted with qualitative means. Article visualizations: