Digital networks and family relations in times of coronavirus: new interaction between family and school

Dr. Pier Cesare Rivoltella, Professor of Didactics and Education Technology at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan.

Coronavirus, in particular the lockdown and the urgent limitation to people’s movements decided by the government as a contrast measure, surely produced significant modifications in the times and forms of the individual and social life of people. Some of these modifications concerned families, by imposing temporary redefinitions of their behaviours and of the routines that characterise family life. These modifications have a significant relation with the availability of digital media, more in general of technology.

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Implementing the National Development Plan 2030 through a Family Lens

Dr. Imelda Diouf, Director of the Sekwele Centre for Family Studies.

Covid19 has forced the nation to act as a collective. The president has spoken, the troops have been rallied, philanthropists are emerging and people have been soothed, temporarily at least. South Africa is ahead of the game with government communications managed, testing is being scaled up, temporary housing for the homeless, social grants distributed and the banking sector reflective rather than demanding.

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