Psychopedagogy in the COVID-19 pandemic

Extensionist experiences in university internationalization

Abstract

The teaching experiences during the COVID-19 Pandemic have created several constructs in Higher Education. In the Psychopedagogy undergraduate course the extension and internationalization activities brought new experiences and challenges to this moment of social isolation and remote activities. The purpose of this study was to report on the main challenges of Psychopedagogy in remote activities. As methodological procedures this research has a qualitative nature, with a descriptive and cross-sectional character. Participated in the study Fourteen students from the course of Psychopedagogy took part of the study. Thirteen (92.9%) were female and 1 (7.1%) was male, with an age range of 18 years to 28 years (mean ≅ 23.7 years). The data collection analysis technique was content analysis, guided by the categorization Use of Technology Tools, Extension, Internationalization and Challenges / Experiences in Pandemic. As main results, considering the whole pandemic context with countless uncertainties in this period, one can see that the technological tools were of fundamental importance for the continuity of the learning processes, both in terms of university Extension and Internationalization, and fulfilled the role jointly between teachers and students, although placing more students in new situations of adaptation with the change of structural routine and physical and mental health. It is concluded that the pandemic accelerated the process for renewal, reformulating many paradigms of higher education, especially concerning university extension and internationalization in Psychopedagogy.