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Experiences and Challenges of Indigenous Students in Higher Education During the Pandemic

Experiences and Challenges of Indigenous Students in Higher Education During the Pandemic
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Author(s): Ana Arán Sánchez (Escuela Normal Rural Ricardo Flores Magón, Mexico)
Copyright: 2023
Pages: 17
Source title: Handbook of Research on Revisioning and Reconstructing Higher Education After Global Crises
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Shalin Hai-Jew (Hutchinson Community College, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5934-8.ch014

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Abstract

This chapter describes and analyzes the experiences of indigenous students of higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic. They are undergraduates of the bachelor's degree of elementary education who attend a public university located in the north of Mexico, as part of an affirmative action policy that began in 2017. Through the phenomenological method, with an interpretative framework and qualitative approach, this research examines the testimonies of 15 key informants using in-depth interviews, in order to convey the academic challenges they went through during the school lockdown and isolation period of the health emergency caused by the SARS-COV-2 virus, including the development of their dissertation to obtain their degree. The chapter reveals the extreme difficulties they experienced due to the lack of suitable computer equipment, internet connection, and absence of an adequate digital competence. For the ones that had to do their thesis report in order to graduate, having to write their theses in a second language meant an additional obstacle as well.

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