(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2021-12-26) Vertiz Manco, María Belén; Salas Oscco, Claudia Gisell
Within the context generated by an event with a global effect such as the current COVID-19 pandemic, it can be asserted that –along with the adequate provision of basic needs for human survival– education is one of the factors of daily life to which the greatest concentration for preserving is dedicated. In this sense, there is a considerable advantage: an alternative methodology to the coexistence of teachers and students in a common physical space, which, although it was not an option for general application, was not completely alien to the average student in a country like Peru. We refer to long-distance education. However, while the immediate benefits of adopting this system, at first glance so accessible, are in fact many, the untimely imposition of long-distance education at all educational levels in the country was not established without challenges or setbacks. The widening of the digital gap –once a relatively passive reality to ignore for those who did not perceive themselves as particularly affected by it– reached new heights with breakneck speed and became a major concern due to its effect on the ability of Peruvian students to continue receiving their instruction under the virtual modality, or, failing that, to make visible in a forceful way the effects of the increasingly acute social inequality that harms the country.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2021-12-26) Caycay Carpio, Renzo Josue
The lack of mental health care in Lambayeque has motivated the creation of informal projects for the rehabilitation and punishment of drug use in young people. This research seeks to understand how the program of a therapeutic community is assembled with the logic of medical immunity during the COVID-19 pandemic. The latter had consequences on the health and economy of families, which reduce the financial capacity of rehabilitation projects. Based on an ethnographic work and the narratives of five inmates about their first fifteen days of quarantine in the establishment, we show that, far from representing an organizational limitation, the pandemic consolidates the disciplinary procedures of this and other punitive, clinical, and mental complexes. Compared with the known situation, the new modality of preventive reception of the disease is functional to the programming process that turns the individual into an object susceptible to reformulation and transformation.
