Virtual university in pandemic: subjetive impact on students

Abstract

In the disruptive context due to covid19 and the consequent preventive and compulsory social isolation (ASPO), the students were challenged by current virtual environments that sustained university education during 2020. It’s understood that the subject is constituted and conformed in the process of subjectivation, therefore, the meanings that it gives to the university experience are analyzed. The objective that guides this article is to analyze the subjective conditi ons that according to the students have sustained learning in the university during ASPO. The study was approached using a qualitative methodology, teleconference and telephone interviews were conducted with 40 effective students from five faculties of UNRC. For the analysis of data, an inductive generation strategy of thematic core was used through the analytical process of coding. The findings refer to the achievement of virtual presence with different nuances and new ways of being a university student. The virtual environment of education is accentuated as a producer of new feelings in relation to the university in pandemic. The important inequalities in access to university education in this context are highlighted, that are combined with pre-existing social inequalities. Warns about the importance of safeguarding the political commitment to develop an inclusive education that accommodates all the students.ARK-CAICYT: http://id.caicyt.gov.ar/ark:/s23143932/2dpgkow4x