Los Children violated in the midst of the Pandemic: Reflections on educational psychology and the role of the school in times of quarantine

Abstract

On the occasion of the health emergency due to coronavirus COVID-19- and the measures taken by the District Secretary of Government of Bogotá, in conjunction with the Ministry of Education of Colombia, when the pandemic was declared, an initiative arises from the Secretary of Education with the name of '' Learn at Home '', a strategy that aims to guarantee the right to education of children and young people in Colombia, designed from the strengthening of the home as a learning environment in pedagogical proposals oriented from the school, and supported from co-responsibility , autonomy and care for students.

However, despite all the efforts that have been made, it has not yet been analyzed what happens to those children who, having a history of having been violated at home, have to confine themselves permanently, facing not only difficult daily situations, but also that also the one that, from the pandemic, begins to exacerbate conflicts within their family environments.

It is here where the school takes relevance and in it the accompaniment that is bridged through educational psychology which, if it is difficult to develop in person, becomes more urgent to understand its dimensions in the distance and in the lack of security of the environments here the children are.

For the purposes of this study, the following will be analyzed: the role of the family as a generator of a secure bond; the role of the educational psychologist as a facilitator of the educational processes of boys and girls, of their families, forming a model of school as an environment oriented towards caring for the other.

Thus, finally, denote the importance that educational psychology has in schools, identifying some of its greatest tensions and raising some proposals for reflection that allow re-signifying the accompaniment that the school provides to children in vulnerable situations.