Challenges of Teaching Social Studies during the Corona from Students’ Perspectives

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Secretary of Social Studies, Professor Israfilian High School, Najafabad, Isfahan Province

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to identify the challenges of teaching social studies during the corona from the perspective of students. The research method is qualitative with a phenomenological approach. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and data analysis was performed by interpretive content analysis. The statistical population is all junior-high school students (grade 7, 8, and 9) in Najafabad who were studying in the academic year 1399-1400. According to the theoretical method, using the data saturation, 20 of them were sampled and interviewed. The results of data analysis showed that the most important challenges of teaching studies during the corona from the students' point of view are; Challenges of teaching through networks (10 sub-themes), Challenges related to assessment and evaluation (5 sub-themes), Challenges related to teachers and their media and virtual literacy (5 sub-themes), Challenges Student-related issues (5 sub-themes) are family-related challenges (5 sub-themes) that reduce learning and the quality of social studies education, and it is necessary to think of better ways and appropriate solutions in this regard.

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