Concepts of parent and early stage pupil according to the teacher in the context of online learning

Abstract

School concepts of pupil and parent that arose during online learning forced by a pandemic are the main problem discussed in this article. An attempt was made to reconstruct them on the basis of the analysis of the statements of teachers in an early stage education. The teaching concepts present in the statements and the resulting concepts of pupil are illustrated with a didactic metaphor: for a report, without procedures, incomplete, interrupted or missed cognitive opportunities. From this image emerges a pupil as a robot, confused loner, apparent researcher or blindfolded researcher. The concepts of parent metaphorically presented in the text are: ghost, playmate, transmission teacher, actor, controller, postman , lector. The concept of pupil, parent and online learning turns out to be resistant to new contexts resulting from the reorganization of the didactic process. Parents in online learning were forced to act for the school benefit (curriculum implementation). According to the teacher's statements, pupils and parents were to carry out learning activities in the same way as the school did before the lockdown; through the realization of the transmission model of teaching, monocentrically understood cooperation with parents and school: the main beneficiary of learning activities carried out at home. Online learning was not used to change, on the contrary, it has consolidated traditional school concepts of teaching, pupil and parent.