Online Adult Education for Sustainable Development: The Analysis of the Consequences of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Latvia

Q2 Social Sciences

Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI:10.2478/jtes-2023-0010

I. Jēkabsone, I. Gudele

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Abstract

Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic has left significant consequences at every level of education, including adult education. In order to adapt to the restriction caused by the pandemic, adult education institutions all around the world were forced to transform the way how the educational process was being organized. By introducing various web-related technologies, the physical place of teaching and learning processes has become a less significant factor, thereby, potentially, contributing to the inclusiveness of education and, as a result, to sustainable development. The paper aims to analyze how the recent transformation of adult education caused by the pandemic between 2020 and 2022 contributed to the sustainable development of Latvia. To achieve the aim, the following research methods are used: a scientific literature review to investigate the concepts of sustainable development and online adult education as well as their potential correlation, a survey of adult education institutions in Latvia, as well as statistical data analysis of adult education indicators. The main findings of the article: during the pandemic when the in-person teaching process was restricted, the Latvian adult education sector experienced unprecedented digital transformation. The transformation positively contributed to the improvement of not only the digital skills of teachers and learners but also to the sustainable development of Latvia by facilitating access to potential learners living in rural areas and regions.

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在线成人教育促进可持续发展:对拉脱维亚Covid-19大流行后果的分析

2019冠状病毒病大流行给包括成人教育在内的各级教育带来了重大影响。为了适应大流行造成的限制，世界各地的成人教育机构被迫改变教育过程的组织方式。通过引入各种与网络相关的技术，教学和学习过程的物理场所已成为一个不那么重要的因素，从而有可能促进教育的包容性，从而促进可持续发展。本文旨在分析2020年至2022年期间大流行导致的近期成人教育转型如何促进拉脱维亚的可持续发展。为了实现这一目标，本文采用了以下研究方法:通过科学文献综述来研究可持续发展和在线成人教育的概念及其潜在的相关性，对拉脱维亚成人教育机构进行调查，以及对成人教育指标进行统计数据分析。文章的主要发现是:在大流行期间，面对面教学过程受到限制，拉脱维亚成人教育部门经历了前所未有的数字化转型。这一转型不仅为提高教师和学习者的数字技能做出了积极贡献，而且通过促进生活在农村地区和地区的潜在学习者的接触，为拉脱维亚的可持续发展做出了积极贡献。

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Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability Social Sciences-Education

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期刊介绍： Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability (JTEFS) is a forum for the meeting of different views, ideas and research to promote the further development of studies and practice of teacher education in all areas of formal and non-formal education in relation to sustainability. Contributors are encouraged to submit articles with relevance to content and forms of teacher professional and academic education, problems and tasks of teacher in-service education and other issues to help teachers to become responsible mentors for the sustainable development.