| dc.description.abstract | This report describes the experiences of Hungarian public education in the 2020/21 academic year, during the
COVID-19 epidemic. We focus primarily on describing the teaching practices, the teaching methods used that
arose during the school closures period. In secondary schools, this meant two-thirds of the school year, while
in primary schools it meant a much shorter period. The report is based on a qulitative study of teachers,
school principals, students, parents and a representative of a trade union of teachers and a central
organization dealing with education policy (n=22). The main finding of the study is that remote education has
highlighted a number of problems that the Hungarian education system has been struggling with for a long
time. At the same time, some schools and teachers experienced the situation as a challenge resulting in a
number of good teacher practices. In schools, on the other hand, where the proportion of disadvantaged
students was high, the problems worsened despite teacher effort. The study also deals with the question of
what lessons this period provided for Hungarian public education. |
