The aim of this article is to understand the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis on teaching and learning by international students in Portuguese higher education. It also focuses on how new student mobility projects have been re-designed and re-negotiated during the pandemic. The methodology includes analysing the results of an online survey and individual online interviews. The former was answered by 703 international students enrolled at higher education institutions in Portugal; the latter was conducted with 22 of those students, as well as with students planning to study in Portugal. While for some students, the pandemic represented the possibility of enjoying “mobility” while being “immobile” (in their countries of origin or even in Portugal, provided they have a computer and an internet connection); for others, it enhanced social and economic inequalities, making this sort of mobility difficult, and often impossible.
RESUMO O objetivo deste artigo é compreender de que modo a crise provocada pelo coronavírus (COVID-19) tem impactado o ensino-aprendizagem dos estudantes internacionais no ensino superior português, e de que forma novos projetos de mobilidade estudantil têm sido repensados e renegociados durante a pandemia. A metodologia inclui a análise dos resultados de um questionário online — respondido por 703 estudantes internacionais, matriculados num estabelecimento de ensino superior em Portugal — para além de entrevistas individuais online — realizadas com 22 desses estudantes e também com aqueles que têm intenção de estudar em Portugal. Enquanto, para alguns, a pandemia representou a possibilidade de se fazer “mobilidade” estando “imóvel” (em seu país de origem, ou mesmo em Portugal, necessitando “apenas” de um computador e uma ligação à internet); para outros, potenciou as desigualdades sociais e econômicas, dificultando, e muitas vezes impossibilitando, a realização da “mobilidade” nesses moldes.
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