新型コロナウィルスという暗い雲が世界を覆っています。
私たちの日常のあらゆる場面が制約を強いられ、
ニューノーマルとして新たな日常に
アフリカの教育を研究する私たちは、
は、
の人たちが、その教育が持つ困難です。
共感することができずにいるもどかしさも、日々募ります。
しかし、そうした中でも、確かに生活はあり、
校閉鎖が続いて学校で学べない子どもたちも少なくありませんが
ジオを使った教育は模索されていますし、
られなかった人々にもその機会を与えてい
今の困難も、
えるような有益な教訓となって、
になれば、
でも役立つでしょう。
それを研究する私たちも、
まる思い
みなさまのご健勝を心からお祈りいたします。
2021年4月
吉田和浩
The dark cloud of COVID-19 overshadows the world.
All aspects of our daily activities are restricted, and the lifestyles that we have never experienced are becoming our “new normal.”
We the researchers of education in Africa face dual difficulties. For one, our own lives. And for the other, difficulties faced by people in Africa and their education. Our frustration is adding up every day, as we are unable to stay by them and understand their difficulties.
However, lives do continue, and education must not stop. Schools are closed in many places and children are not studying at school in those places. But novel means of education such as online or use of radio are being pursued. These are providing learning opportunities to those people previously excluded from education. As long as this is true, good comes out of evil.
I hope lessons from today’s difficulties serve the purpose of improving education of the future in the long term, contributing to overcoming the lasting conventional problems. Such lessons will surely benefit education not only in Africa, but also in other regions.
Let us remind that we, the researchers, play important roles in this process.
I sincerely wish the health and wellbeing of all.
April 2021
Kazuhiro Yoshida