There can be no doubt that the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic will be looked back on as a historic moment – one that could come to be seen either as an important turning point for humanity or as a huge missed opportunity, a milestone in the story of our deterioration and mismanagement of the planet. How we respond and the actions we take now will have a profound impact on the society of the future, including the future of education. It will determine whether we continue on our current course, leading, as it would appear, to increasingly brutal, authoritarian and inequitable forms of capitalism, or whether we recognise the profound dysfunction at the heart of our socio-economic arrangements and try to create something better. To do so, we must be sure to act on the basis of values and principles that can enable us not only to build back better but to build back fairer and in a more inclusive, democratic and sustainable way. Education, of course, has a critical role in all of this, as it helps to mould these formative values while at the same time being moulded by them. Understanding how we might change means understanding what has happened, its impact and the deeper problems it has exposed and, in some instances, exacerbated. We cannot continue to affect not to know the things that we plainly know, or deny the realities of the world we have helped create. For educators, the disruption of educational activities and practices that has resulted from the pandemic has been immense. Its impact continues to raise significant concerns. The closure of schools, universities and technical institutions around the world has disrupted the lives and learning of a whole generation of students. And while there have been many examples of institutions responding creatively to ensure continuity of learning through

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COVID-19 时代的教育：了解后果

毫无疑问，由 COVID-19 大流行引起的危机将被视为一个历史性时刻——这一时刻可能被视为人类的一个重要转折点，也可能被视为错失的巨大机会、一个里程碑。我们对地球的恶化和管理不善的故事。我们如何应对以及我们现在采取的行动将对未来的社会产生深远的影响，包括教育的未来。它将决定我们是否继续当前的道路，导致看起来越来越残酷、专制和不公平的资本主义形式，或者我们是否认识到我们社会经济安排核心的深刻功能障碍并试图创造一些东西更好的。这样做 我们必须确保在价值观和原则的基础上采取行动，这些价值观和原则不仅可以使我们更好地重建，而且可以更公平、更包容、更民主和更可持续的方式重建。当然，教育在这一切中起着至关重要的作用，因为它有助于塑造这些形成性的价值观，同时也被它们塑造。了解我们可能如何改变意味着了解已经发生的事情、它的影响和更深层次的问题，它暴露了，在某些情况下，加剧了。我们不能继续影响不知道我们清楚知道的事情，或否认我们帮助创造的世界的现实。对于教育工作者来说，大流行对教育活动和实践造成的破坏是巨大的。它的影响继续引起重大关切。关闭学校，世界各地的大学和技术机构扰乱了整整一代学生的生活和学习。虽然有许多机构创造性地回应以确保学习的连续性的例子