The emotions of children and adolescents in the face of virtual education due to the health crisis

Abstract

Introduction. With the appearance of the sanitary emergency provoked by the COVID 19, the education field turned completely virtual, it was in order to solve the quarantine situation which didn’t allow students to go to schools, colleges and universities. With this new educative system, which all people was forced to, new challenges appeared due to the fast changes. No students or teachers were well prepared for this alterations. Because of this situation, a question appears: which are the children emotions facing the virtual education during the pandemic time? Objective. In order to answer this question, this paper propose the objective of determine the emotions children feel facing the virtual education during the pandemic time. Methodology. In order to get the results, this paper was based in a qualitative and ethnographic investigation, which searched to do a detailed description related to children emotions facing the virtual classes during the pandemic. Results. These results showed that children had positive emotions and feelings like surprise, happiness and enthusiasm, but they also experienced fear and frustration, most of the time for not having the technological issues needed to attend their classes. Conclusion. This paper conclude that children and teenagers are facing positive and negative emotions, however, most of them feel fear and frustration due to a educative system they do not understand, because they don’t feel prepared to deal with it due to their lack of knowledge and technological devices.