¹Sofia Tsagdi, ²Vassiliki Tsipopoulou, ³Maria Balatsou,⁴ Kostas Theologou

¹,³,⁴National Technical University of Athens, Greece

²University of West Attica, Greece

DOI : https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v4-i11-39

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ABSTRACT

The COVID-19 pandemic is an emergency of an unprecedented scale, bringing new challenges and severe changes in the schools in Greece. The Ministry of education had to guarantee that learning would be safeguarded as well as impose several measures to mitigate the effects of this unfamiliar situation. Different strategies were followed regarding special needs schools and standard schools. The aim of this article is to investigate how satisfactory the measures were considered by parents and teachers of both schools. Moreover, we seek to explore if the trust of the stakeholders of education was increased or whether it was a lost opportunity to enhance trust among parents, teachers, and the Ministry of Education. For the purpose of our study, we delivered questionnaires among the teachers and parents of both schools as well as conducted semi-structured interviews with the headmasters of the school units. Also, a rigorous and extensive study of the orders issued by the Ministry was done. Our article concludes with several points that need to be taken into consideration in moments of crisis and suggestions on what could be done to alleviate problems in similar times of crisis.

KEYWORDS

Covid19, Education, Greece, Crisis Management Schools

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