Abstract
Online education is a rapidly growing phenomenon for teachers. With the outbreak of COVID-19, there are changes in all societies worldwide, and a forcible shift in the medium of teaching and learning is inevitable. This paper explored the social science teachers' lived experiences in a Chinese school during the COVID-19 Pandemic. This qualitative study utilized the phenomenological approach to explore the lived experiences of eight full-time and tenured social science teachers determined using purposive sampling. The data were collected from the participants using an in-depth semi-structured interview. Meanwhile, the recursive textual analysis guided by the three C's of Lichtman was employed to analyze the data thematically. The findings show that social science teachers faced challenges in online teaching such as personal, technical, and teaching strategies. It also found that the teachers have difficulty motivating students to participate in the online class activities and submission of outputs. Despite the challenges, the teachers were able to surmount the difficulties because of the support of the administration and their fellow teachers. Generally, the unfolding of online teaching challenges confronted by school heads, teachers, and students will make them resilient to adapt and embrace virtual education.
 Keywords. Social Science, online education, COVID-19 Pandemic, phenomenology, Philippines
Highlights
Social science has had a relatively brief and turbulent history as one of the core subjects in the school curriculum
The goal of the paper was to explore the lived experiences of social science teachers of a Chinese school in online education during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Challenging teaching task Most of the participants believe that online education is a challenging teaching task
Summary
Social science has had a relatively brief and turbulent history as one of the core subjects in the school curriculum. The fundamental content of the social science curriculum is the study of human enterprise across space and time. It has always been at the core of educational endeavors [43]. Curriculum content has been challenged, altered, and restructured in other disciplines, the focus of social science education has undergone drastic changes over the past 150 years due to political and social influences. As in other countries like Spain, social science continues to be a classroom instructional challenge for schools, teachers, and global citizens [45]
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