Educating Our Psycho-Emotional and Social State Through the Pandemic: Mask Impact on the Education Realm

By Neusa Correia Lopes

COVID-19 Crashed into the Education Realm to teach us how to manage our Psycho-Emotional and Social state as Human Beings. Challenges and changes are still yet to come in order for us to learn more about the know-how to Balance our Psycho-Emotional and Societal attitudes and behaviors.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669859437

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgment

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1Definition of Culture during the Pandemic

Chapter 2The Importance Of Language Versus Social Distancing

Chapter 3The Remote Learning

Chapter 4Schools Reopen With Many Restrictions In Place The New Normal

Chapter 5Omicron Versus Delta

Chapter 6The Mask

Chapter 7Vaccinations

Chapter 8The Psychological And Emotional Puzzle Of Classroom Management And Accommodation

Chapter 9Testing

Chapter 10Education Versus Health During The Pandemic. A Conversation With Some Health Care Providers In And Out Of The Country. Their Point Of View About The Impact Of Covid-19.

Chapter 11What Educator Leaders Think About The Change To The New Normal In The Education Realm.

Chapter 12Students’ Reflections On Pandemic

Chapter 13The New Normal Returning To Schools, Universities, And Institutions.

Chapter 14To Wear The Mask Versus Not Wearing It!

Chapter 15Teaching And Learning In The Future 2030 Through 2050

Chapter 16The Social-Emotional Learning

Survey

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Neusa Correia Lopes is an educator, a teacher, and an author. She has been in the educational field for more than twenty years. She has been teaching English at secondary schools and universities in Cape Verde. She has also been teaching other linguistics subjects, such as language studies, phonetics, and oral communication. She had been teaching ABE (academic basic English) and ESOL (English for students of other languages) at Bunker Hill Community College, one of the largest community colleges in Massachusetts, USA. She has been lecturing at universities in Cabo Verde virtually teaching Technical Translation at Santiago’s University, and Anglophones- Literature at Jean Piaget’s University Cabo Verde islands. She has been an English instructor for more than ten years with ENB (English for New Bostonians) serving multicultural and multilingual immigrants coming from different countries. She wrote many articles on culture shock, immigration, culture, and language in A Naçᾶo, a Cape Verde newspaper in 2007–2008. Some of the newspapers traveled in the TACV Cape Verdean airlines for passengers to read. She also published Enigma—Portrait of a Life, an autobiography, in 2020, Educating Through Pandemic-Traditional Classroom Versus Virtual Space-The Education Realm, in 2021, and a biannual Magazine called Invisible in 2022.

COVID-19 Crashed into the Education Realm to teach us how to manage our Psycho-Emotional and Social state as Human Beings. Challenges and changes are still yet to come in order for us to learn more about the know-how to Balance our Psycho-Emotional and Societal attitudes and behaviors.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

T o my granddaughter, Olivia Christina, and the future generation. I hope that one day you could read this book and acknowledge the COVID-19 Mosaic.

FOREWORD

T he realm of education has seen transformation since the COVID-19 pandemic and the educator and author Neusa Correia Lopes is a pioneer in the literature spelling out the abrupt and profound changes in the form and structure the education occurs in the light of cultural differences of immigrant students. Her new book, Educating our Psycho-Emotional and Social state Through the Pandemic-Mask impact on the Education Realm is a continuation of her previous one Educating through Pandemic featured in The New York Times.

The central idea underlying this book delineates the biopsychosocial nature of human beings and the correlation between pandemic healthcare-related norms and education, mainly the education of those coming from different cultural backgrounds.

As a large-scale traumatic event, The COVID-19 Pandemic is responsible for large-scale societal changes that will project well beyond into the future. Specifically, in terms of education, these changes continue to echo not only daily how education takes place but will also have an impact in the next two to three decades.

Correia Lopes elaborates in the final chapters of her book on how teaching and learning in the future- 2030/2050- will look in terms of structure, format, E-learning platforms, and logistics.

This is a book that deserves careful reading since Neusa Lopes’ contribution is clearly a path-breaking one in weaving Post COVID-19 Pandemic and education culture connecting them in terms of trauma response. Each paragraph is a testimony of perspectives and insights that derive from the conceptual elaboration of her cumulative professional and personal observations on the matter with nearly two decades of experience as an ESL, EFL, and ESOL instructor, and university professor.

By:Jacelinda Fontes Fragoso, M.Ed. (Counseling psychology/Trauma)

PREFACE

T he focus on the English language barrier in the classroom setting and how teachers help students overcome this issue in the new normal of COVID-19 had a big impact on the education realm. This book is the continuation of the previous book Educating Through Pandemic Traditional Classroom vs Virtual Space , The Education realm. However, it stresses mainly the challenges and changes of coronavirus, the necessary accommodation and adaptation throughout this new normal back to school, and its change in going back and forth sometimes remotely and back to the classroom setting again. The language barrier has implications for the multicultural and multilingual population of students during this new normal. The main emphasis of this book is the use of masks, the variants: Delta and Omicron and others, their implications, and their impact in the new classroom setting. Language barrier in the classroom setting, along with the history of COVID-19, and its impact on education in the world and the USA, including the new classroom setting, the virtual classroom, and the negative and positive aspects of it. The vaccination, the rules implemented by the Government, and its implication in the world will also be addressed. I urge teachers/educators to comprehend the background of immigrant students and parents for them to be more effective in teaching these new learners. I propose strategies on how to explore the language barrier in the classroom setting and the consequences of multiculturalism and the diversity of language spoken in the virtual classroom. I will focus on the strategies to enhance successful outcomes for students with an English language barrier in the parameters of the pandemic that the world is living in now. I will also propose strategies on how to deal with a mask during the teaching and learning process. The approach of the vaccines and hybrid