COVID-19: TURN THE CHALLENGES TO OPPORTUNITIES IN EDUCATION SECTOR

Abstract

Any disaster just does not throw light on the massacre occurs following it- it also opens up the
fabric of normality. Various holes are opened up through which people can glimpse possibilities
of the worlds. The World Wide pandemic situation due to COVID-19 begins to launch several
avenues to get back to change. The global people have to accept now the unacceptable so far.
The lessons learned from COVID-19 crisis bring new challenges ahead. The main objective of
the present paper is to ascertain the challenges ahead posed by this crisis and also to analyse
the new opportunities to get back ‘Next Normal’ in different education sectors. It has tried to
show how the challenges that the pandemic has brought turn to opportunities to guarantee
the right to Education For All. In the present study, descriptive and analytical methods are
used. Different journals, e-journals, websites, articles, report of various organizations have
been studied and used as secondary sources of data. Educational policies, curricula and school
governance, teachers and educators all are now responsible to build just societies for the future
ahead. The new horizon is now more concerned with the emotional quotient of the learners
as well as the teachers who will actually effectively deal with the vicissitudes of life during or
post COVID-19 period. Opportunities also emerge for the teachers to train them for emergency
responses. Enhancement of teachers’ capacity for pedagogical innovation, including digital
literacy, blended teaching method will be the outcome of this changing perspective. To build
a better normal in a post COVID-19 world, skills of higher level of creativity, innovation, social and emotional intelligence skills
have to be developed. To ensure
that ‘Learning Never Stops’, here
comes the significance that people
therefore cherish or otherwise perish
in this new environment. serious challenges ahead. In this transitional
phase, the future of education rests on the
notion “Learning to become” to transform the
challenges into opportunities.