Thoughts on the Pandemic and Wellbeing

Abstract

Education has invariably been a hot topic: Too many seem to be experts in highlighting the flaws and shortcomings of the educational system and fake news keep thriving on social media. In any case, COVID-19 raised more real educational issues than anything else in the last decades. Surprisingly, we had to rethink education as a whole, we were forced to set priorities, and acquire knowledge and skills overnight. Let us be honest, we all, teachers and administration, could have done more and better, but lack of in-depth training, apps and devices, access to the Internet, made us experiment with what we had and what we could do in the given circumstances. Undoubtedly, a compromise always puts us on a slippery slope. And here we are facing mental health issues, severe learning gaps, and higher illiteracy rates. One question, however, persists, whether wellbeing practices can significantly improve behaviour problems and school results or not.