Original Research Article

Immersive Governance Networks in the COVID-19 Era

Javier Carreón Guillén¹, Cruz García Lirios², Francisco Espinoza Morales³, Gilberto Bermúdez Ruíz⁴

¹Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
²Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México
³Universidad de Sonora
⁴Universidad Anahuac del Sur

*Corresponding Author's E-mail: bundestappen@gmail.com

Received: 19 December 2022  I  Accepted: 21 January 2023  I  Published: 30 January 2023  I  Article ID: MRJER23001
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Abstract

As of January 2023, the pandemic has claimed the lives of more than four million. In Mexico, confirmed cases of around a million victims accumulate. In this scenario, the Mexican State has escalated into a conflict with Higher Education Institutions regarding the return to classes. While educational policies revolve around lack of refinement and return to classes, even when young people do not have the basic immunization scheme, public universities lead the practice of the virtual classroom. The objective of this work is to analyze and discuss the differences between the public administration of education and the autonomy of the universities regarding the return to the traditional classroom. A literature review was carried out considering the link between policies to mitigate and contain the pandemic in relation to the protocols for returning to face-to-face classes followed by public universities. Axes, trajectories and relationships between risk prevention, self-care and co-responsibility stand out. In relation to the state of the art, the asymmetries between political and educational actors are discussed.

Keywords: Covid-19, Governance, Social Representations, Educational Policy, Pandemic, Agenda