Social adaptation to the return process to face-to-face private education

Abstract

The objective of this research aims to investigate the dynamics of the families of middle-level students, the current academic situation at home and their eventual return to education with the face-to-face modality and use of facilities in institutions with private or fiscal-commission financing. The research adopted a qualitative, descriptive approach in which a sample of 971 parents and / or student representatives with similar characteristics of private education in the urban area of ​​Cuenca, Ecuador participated. After obtaining the results of qualitative instruments such as structured surveys and analysis of documentary information, data were obtained that allowed describing criteria of social adaptation to the academic processes of students in their homes during the current pandemic, the reality of family health and possible contact with people infected or vulnerable to contagion in the sector of influence. Likewise, the study facilitated the approach of some consequences regarding the progressive or future return to physical classrooms, highlighting the criteria expressed by the studied sample that will serve as a preamble for decision-making by the zonal and district educational authorities in this academic field for the intermediate level.