Self-learning as a process to construct knowledge in times of pandemic

Abstract

Due to the pandemic which impacts humanity currently because of the COVID-19, people´s lifestyles changed drastically. One of the most affected sectors is the educational one, which had its activities interrupted caused by the lockdown in several countries as a sanitary action. This investigation´s purpose was to analyze one of the processes about construction of knowledge, that it was applied to fight this crisis: self-learning. For this, it was structured a documental investigation with a qualitative approach, using techniques to handle documents and their analysis. Self-learning´s implications in pandemic were studied, and also its role to continue educative activities. As a result, it was determined that in this kind of learning, students play a crucial role because they acquire responsibility to execute the strategies to achieve goals, but here the teacher and families would be considered mediators. The conclusion was that the adaptation of this topic on every territory will depend on its resources, because the moment to end with this issue is still uncertain.