Abstract

GALLEGOS RUIZ, Itziar Scarlet  and  TINAJERO VILLAVICENCIO, María Guadalupe. Full and Empty Classrooms: Decisions and Actions of an Indigenous Preschool Principal during the Health Contingency. Rev. latinoam. estud. educ. [online]. 2022, vol.52, n.1, pp.241-267.  Epub Oct 02, 2023. ISSN 2448-878X.  https://doi.org/10.48102/rlee.2022.52.1.474.

This article describes the work carried out by adirector and a teacher of an indigenous multigrade preschool from Baja California, Mexico, during the health contingency caused by Covid-19. The objective is to know the challenges she faced during the transition from face-to-face to remote education and to identify the type of actions that she promoted to continue with the educational processes regarding the closure of schools. From a qualitative approach, we collected information in two moments. We initially observed and interviewed the teacher before school closings and, later, when the strategy Learn at Home was launched. The results show that the teacher made decisions and modified the government strategy to adapt it to the contextual needs of her students. She used all the resources available to prevent er students from dropping out of the level. This case allows us to understand the results evidenced by the teacher (the 98.33% of the enrollment remained in the 2020-2021 school year) are anchored in the work that she had been doing in the school she founded.

Keywords : Preschool education; indigenous education; distance education; teaching practice; teaching work.