Between education in today's pandemic times and tomorrow's inclusive culture

Abstract

A little over a year has passed since the World Health Organization declared, on January 30, 2020, COVID-19 as an international public health emergency and became, early on March 11, 2020, a state of pandemic (PAHO, 2020). The threat, the risk and the state of vulnerability reached everyone equally, without distinction of social class, race, ethnicity, gender and abilities, among other aspects. Humanity, in all its diversity, was affected. Even so, the coping mechanisms were not deployed equally in all countries, given a complex web of historical-social causes. The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) identified the deterioration of social, health, and educational conditions, high rates of poverty (sometimes extreme), inequalities, gender violence, weaknesses in situations of disability, food, the possibilities of the indigenous sectors, which society was already facing in the pre-pandemic stage (ECLAC-UNESCO, 2020).