Emmanuel Beche

Publications

• Research Article   
  COVID-19 and Educational Resilience in Africa: How School Closure Revealed Countries’ Educational Conditions
  Author(s): Emmanuel Beche* and Adoumtar Noubatour
  
  This study examines school closures in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic as a reflection of countries’ educational conditions. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines the sociology of crisis and decision-making, it focuses on two leading indicators: The timing and duration of school closures concerning the emergence of the coronavirus. We then correlate these factors with each country’s specific pandemic and educational context. Our data collection involved an online documentary analysis and leveraged insights from two webinars on African responses to COVID-19, conducted in March and June 2020, in which we participated. Through a categorical analysis, we classify the 54 African nations into five groups according to how they handled school lockdowns during this pandemic: Resistant, proactive, reactive, post-active, and passive, demons.. Read More»
  

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