How students of Universidad Pedagógica Veracruzana are going through the pandemic: a case study

Abstract

This article describes who the students of the Universidad Pedagógica Veracruzana are and how they are going through the health emergency derived from COVID-19, in order to account for their strategies, motivations and practices during the lockdown. We conducted a series of surveys, observation records and semi-structured interviews with a sample of a total of 82 students from the institution at the bachelor’s degree, master’s and doctoral levels, using a multi-method approach. Based on the data obtained, we carried out a post-decision type policy analysis with the aim of pointing out the university’s performance as a result of our findings with its students, one of which was that, although the university’s response was immediate, it did not take into account the students’ personal and professional contexts: apparently, there was only a sort of overlapping of the curricular contents to be addressed, since due to the lack of an active institutional platform the teachers had to resort to the use of technological tools such as Zoom, Meet, Skype, and edmodo, among others.