Trying to keep in touch with Nature during the COVID-19 pandemic: an experience from the University of Trento

[EN] Italy was one of the Western countries more seriously affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. To counter the outbreak, government resorted to different types of precautionary measures and restrictions. Education, at all levels, from nursery school to university, also suffered the repercussions of th...

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Autor: Cantiani, Maria
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/206941
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/206941
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:COVID-19 pandemic
Lockdown
Distance learning
Nature
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Sumario:[EN] Italy was one of the Western countries more seriously affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. To counter the outbreak, government resorted to different types of precautionary measures and restrictions. Education, at all levels, from nursery school to university, also suffered the repercussions of the pandemic, with the halt of classroom attendance and the move to distance learning. At the University of Trento, where I teach Ecology, the second semester of the 2019–2020 academic year took place entirely via online teaching, while in the following academic year it was possible to resort to a blended modality. The paper illustrates the initiatives I used to facilitate interaction between students and to set up a mutual dialogue between students and teacher, with the aim of creating a sense of community and of bringing students, isolated and shut up in their homes, into contact with the natural environment.