Covid-19: food insecurity, digital exclusion and Catholic schools

Covid-19 and the subsequent worldwide lockdowns have had a major impact on families and school education. The lockdowns have highlighted and exacerbated the disadvantages experienced by those children who suffer from child poverty. This article focuses on food insecurity and the digital divide, or d...

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1. VerfasserIn: McKinney, Stephen J. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Springer [2020]
In: Journal of Religious Education
Jahr: 2020, Band: 68, Heft: 3, Seiten: 319-330
RelBib Classification:KBF Britische Inseln
KDB Katholische Kirche
NCA Ethik
RF Christliche Religionspädagogik; Katechetik
ZG Medienwissenschaft; Digitalität; Kommunikationswissenschaft
weitere Schlagwörter:B Catholic Schools
B Covid-19
B United Kingdom
B Food insecurity
B Digital divide
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Zusammenfassung:Covid-19 and the subsequent worldwide lockdowns have had a major impact on families and school education. The lockdowns have highlighted and exacerbated the disadvantages experienced by those children who suffer from child poverty. This article focuses on food insecurity and the digital divide, or digital exclusion, and argues that these have emerged as very pressing issues during lockdowns for children suffering from child poverty. The article provides an outline of the response of the Catholic Church and Catholic schools, primarily in the United Kingdom. There have been some concerted efforts to address food insecurity by providing food and food vouchers for children and vulnerable families. It has proved more problematic to address digital exclusion and the article argues that for those children who experience digital exclusion, this can effectively mean exclusion from the religious education, religious life, community and the pastoral and spiritual support that is normally offered by the Catholic school.
ISSN:2199-4625
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of Religious Education
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s40839-020-00112-8