Initial education crisis in times of pandemic. A look from school dropout and teacher unemployment.

Abstract

The objective of the work was to analyze the situation of initial education during the pandemic period, where the resources to teach were online. The different causes and reasons that motivated student desertion were analyzed. For this study, zone 8 of the city of Guayaquil, in Ecuador, was considered, and this qualitative-quantitative approach was used with a non-experimental - cross-sectional design of a descriptive and explanatory type, using a survey and interview as instruments. The work was carried out with a sample of 132 children, which allowed the detection of a multifactorial failure that includes economic factors, lack of computational resources, lack of support, and lack of appropriate methodological strategies between teachers and representatives, the most important being the existence of parents that they did not want to accompany their children because they are used to the educational institution carrying out the function of educating them.