The Work of school Educationalists in extraordinary circumstances: Pedagogy students' view

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to numerous changes in the functioning of schools. Although their primary objective has been to ensure the conditions necessary for the uninterrupted unfolding of the process of school study in extraordinary circumstances, in the long term these changes can result in the need to reexamine well-established content and forms of cooperation within the school as well as between the school and its environment, and lead to the recognition of the need to reconceptualize the role of educationalists in schools. This paper analyzes the question of the school educationalist's role during the crisis resulting from the pandemic. After looking at the meaning and importance of cooperative relationships in schools, the paper briefly presents the provisions in the official regulations governing the functioning of schools and the work of educationalists in Serbian schools over the past two years, as well as the results of a study the aim of which was to examine school educationalists' views of school practice in that period. In a separate section of the paper, an overview is given of suggestions for school educationalists' possible activities aimed at providing assistance and support to students, teachers and parents in these extraordinary circumstances, which have been elaborated by pedagogy students as an assignment for the course Work Methodology of School Educationalists.