PROJECT TITLE

The Impact of COVID-19 on Education

Submitted By

Student Name: Mulazam Hussain

Registration No: SUIT-18-02-171-0022

Roll No: 18-SP00953

Master of Arts in Fine Arts (Drawing)

Supervised By

Miss. Sonia

SARHAD UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND INFORMATION

TECHNOLGY PESHAWAR PAKISTAN

2021

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABSTRACT.................................................................................................................................... v

CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................. 1

1.0 Background ...................................................................................................................... 1

1.1 Effects of Covid-19 on Education System ....................................................................... 3

1.2 Education System Before Pandemic ................................................................................ 3

1.3 Education System after Pandemic .................................................................................... 4

1.4 Problem Statement: .......................................................................................................... 4

1.5 Aims and Objectives: ....................................................................................................... 5

1.5.1 General objectives:.................................................................................................... 5

1.5.2 Specific Objective: .................................................................................................... 5

1.6 Scope of The Study: ......................................................................................................... 5

CHAPTER 2. LITERATURE REVIEW ...................................................................................... 6

CHAPTER 3. METHODOLOGY .............................................................................................. 12

3.0 Introduction .................................................................................................................... 12

3.0.1 Watercolor Paintings:.............................................................................................. 12

3.0.2 Qualitative Interviews ............................................................................................. 12

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 3.1 Material and Medium ..................................................................................................... 13

3.2 Procedure/ Workplan...................................................................................................... 13

CHAPTER 4. PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................ 14

4.0 Introduction .................................................................................................................... 14

4.1 Impacts of Covid-19 on Learning .................................................................................. 15

4.2 Education System Post-Covid ........................................................................................ 16

4.3 Online Learning.............................................................................................................. 18

4.4 Reopening of education institutes ................................................................................. 20

4.5 Temperature Gun for Checking Temperature ................................................................ 22

4.6 Safe Distance .................................................................................................................. 23

4.7 Sanitization ..................................................................................................................... 25

4.8 Extracurricular Activities .............................................................................................. 26

4.9 Quantitative Summary.................................................................................................... 28

CHAPTER 5. SUMMARY ........................................................................................................ 30

REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................. 32

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 LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1 Impacts of Covid-19 on Learning --------------------------------------------------------------- 15

Figure 2 Education System Post-Covid ------------------------------------------------------------------- 16

Figure 3 Online Learning ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18

Figure 4 Reopening of education institutes --------------------------------------------------------------- 20

Figure 5 Temperature Gun for Checking Temperature ------------------------------------------------- 22

Figure 6 Safe Distance --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 23

Figure 7 Sanitization ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 25

Figure 8 Extracurricular Activities------------------------------------------------------------------------- 26

Figure 9 Survey Results ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 29

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 ABSTRACT

Coronavirus also known as COVID-19 has been regarded as a deadly disease throughout the world

which disrupts the overall activity of human beings. Nobody and no zone of life get escape from

the virus. Out of all sectors the most vulnerable sector was the education where the governments

announce the closure of schools, colleges, and universities for controlling the dreads of virus.

However, the closure of school give rise to several difficulties for students, teachers, and parents.

Therefore, the ultimate solution for the problem was found in the form of digital or online learning

in the community for the continuity of education practices in compensation to loss incurred by

COVID-19. Digital learning fails to provide the proper quality education as there was lack of

networking infrastructure, internet access and parents ability. Such incidences were most

prominently observed in developing countries. Therefore, Present study aims and investigated the

impact of COVID-19 on education system. For the purpose study used the watercolor paintings

which were drawn on scholar sheets. These painting helped researcher to dig deeper into issue

under consideration.

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 CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION

1.0 Background

It was a last day of calendar year 2019, when everyone in the globe was setting up new goals and

wishes with their lively hopes for their next coming year. On the other side not, any brain was

focused, nor any tool was present which can determine or alarm the people about upcoming

phenomenon, which was in the way to haul their dreams and goals. At that time, the mother nature

claimed the arrival of her very little microorganism which even cannot be possible to see from

naked eyes. This microorganism known as a virus resulted into the pandemic which was titled later

as the Corona virus pandemic or COVID-19. Covid-19 or commonly known as Coronavirus

belongs to the family of Coronaviridae which is infectious to both men and animal. In a human

body it originates in the form of common cold which later leads to cause severe diseases that leads

to deadly respiratory organ.

On December 31, 2019 it was identified in the city of Wuhan in china (WHO) where it

causes symptoms like cold, cough, breath shortness and caused acute respiratory diseases which

leads to the death of carrier. Soon after the state officers from WHO in China confirmed it and on

January 30, 2020 there declared an international emergency for public health due to this epidemic.

Unfortunately, this disease does not limit to the boarders of China as it reaches to almost every

corner of the world till January 2020 where it disrupts the whole system where COVID-19 not

only effect 7.6 billion population on the earth but also take the lives of 27,51,515 people in the

world, worldometer. According to GOOGLE (24March, 2021) there are 124 million cases of

corona virus worldwide from which 2.74 million deaths have been recorded. Moreover, in pakistan

there are 637K cases and 13965 deaths have been recorded. In the way, Pakistan is using the status

“wear a mask, maintain distance, stay safe.” According to Bedford et al (2020) health specialists

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in the world have the serious concerns regarding the pandemic and they are prescribing the

competent authorities to take the remedial steps like social distancing, improving health

conditions, quarantining, and working and staying at home.

COVID-19 has badly disrupted the lives of human beings on the earth and impacted almost

all their aspects. Education is one of these aspects which also get discourage and remained in

discussion during the epidemic which is obvious and necessary due to its role and importance.

According to UNESCO (2020), COVID-19 has severely impacted the education of 1.6 billion in

the 191 countries which stems from the shutdown of educational institutions as a result of havoc

arise from alarming speed of the virus. Since 25 March 2020 almost 150 countries had decided to

close the colleges and educational setups on the temporarily basis in their countries which involves

the 80 percent of world’s students. As it was recommended that for overcoming the disease spread

social distance or isolation was only the way, which then give rise to lock down in the world. As

there was no vaccine discovered for such a deadly virus therefore the full-fledge solution to combat

the disease was social distancing. These lockdowns were not limited to one sector specifically, it

almost shuts down every sector worldwide. However, by following the recommended SOPs

governments reopen most of the sectors. Education sectors was only the one where the social

distancing cannot be maintained therefore the sector remained closed for long. Where other sectors

of the country when starts their functionality properly decisions made to reopen the education

sector where the proper SOPs were ensured. However, due to this whole process the education

system of the country gets affected badly which will be discussed in detail in the preceding

sections.

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1.1 Effects of Covid-19 on Education System

Education is regarded as the pillar of the development of the country worldwide which has a

significant role in the growth and development of countries. Countries across the world pay a close

attention on their education systems for making their pace with the developed countries. Many

governments across the world draw policy implications to strengthen their education system. But

all this was in vain when the outbreak of Covid-19 spread across the globe. This outbreak severely

affects the education system because when the pandemic hit several implications were drawn to

combat the disease out of which lockdown was considered as one of the best ways to avoid social

contact. To combat covid-19 a worldwide lock down was imposed particularly on every sector

across the globe. It was found that the sector which remains at the verge of deadly virus is the

education sector. Human history reveals that man was at the expense of deadly pandemics in past

which effected health and overall economic activities (Editors, 2020).

1.2 Education System Before Pandemic

On comparing the actual and planned statistics of the education system across the globe it can be

found that the world has failed to provide education as a basic need of human. Despite of the

several policy implications to made primary education accessible world fails to make sure that

every children is in school. Statistics revealed most of the children across the globe were out of

school due to which nearly 800 million adults are those who are remain illiterate (UNESCO, “The

impact of Covid-19 on the cost of achieving SDG 4”,). Also, it was found that those who were in

schools were unable to learn efficiently. About 56 percent of children who are in their primary

school age lacks basic skills of reading and writing. Before Covid-19 the situations of the education

sector were even worse as the finance was never enough to make sure that every single child across

the globe is attainting his/her primary education. There exists a significant financing gap for

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education. Goal 4 or Sustainable Development which ensure quality educations holds that in early

2020 the estimated financing gap of the education sector will be $148 billion (Sheet, 2017) which

was failed to achieve and the gap increased to one-third during the pandemic (UNESCO, 2020).

1.3 Education System after Pandemic

A report by UNESCO (2020) estimates that the total of 87% student’s population all over the world

get affected by the closure of school that happens because of deadly pandemic. It has been

estimated that almost 1.5 billion students suffer a lot because of school closure during Covid-19.

To cover the loss of education because of deadly virus countries introduce the system of digital

learning where different applications for education were created that provide the resources by

which both students and teachers can be benefited. As reported by UNESCO (2020) the initiative

of digital learning commonly known as internet learning aimed to open the online course platforms

where there can be found a self-directed learning content. However, in most areas the issue of

internet connectivity, and lack of technological information make it difficult for teachers, parents,

and students (Mustafa, 2020).

1.4 Problem Statement:

COVID-19 is a deadly virus and there is no remedy in the way. The only prescription in the regard

is isolation. In the result of this isolation or social distancing, this epidemic not only stopped the

activities of human beings but also disrupted all their aspects including their education. Education

is a very important and it remained under discussion during all this period because world have

never been imagined or looked the current scenario regarding the education in their overall history.

In the way, 150 countries have decided to close their educational establishments and 80 percent of

world’s students get effected. In the way, since March 2020, Pakistan has decided to close its

schools, colleges, and universities to combat with this deadly disease and later on by following the

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developed nations it takes the step of online education for carrying the education system in the

country.

1.5 Aims and Objectives:

Present study aims to investigate the COVID-19 and its impact on education in Pakistan.

For the purpose, this study aims to demonstrate the following objectives:

1.5.1 General objectives:

• To assess the knowledge on COVID-19 in Pakistan.

• To assess the knowledge on education in Pakistan.

• To assess the attitude and behavior of young adults of school towards corona virus

pandemic in Pakistan.

1.5.2 Specific Objective:

• To assess the Prevention measure followed by students.

• To identify the role and importance of online learning aspects.

• To identify the socio-demographic data of the school department.

• To identify the impact of COVID-19 on education.

1.6 Scope of The Study:

The research study is intending to access and highlight the knowledge on COVID-19 and

education. In the way, study is dedicated to analyzing the impact of Covid-19 on education sector

of Pakistan. For the purpose, study is using the watercolor paintings for presenting the Covid-19,

education, and the relationship between them. Moreover, educationists and students were

interviewed regarding the online learning as a results of corona virus outbreak. Therefore, this

study will be conducted by utilizing the fine arts tool i.e., watercolor paintings.

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 CHAPTER 2. LITERATURE REVIEW

The history of viruses is as old as the history of human beings. Like humans, they live, grow and

die. They are created for the purpose; in the way they positively and negatively behave in the

environment. Today corona virus is the modern corona virus, its history begins in the mid-20th

century where it was identified in the old teenager’s body. According to Tyrrell & Bynoe (1966)

it was observed in the part of cultures of biological epithelial tracheal, influences the respiratory

system and the symptom was cold or flu. The quarantining was only found remedy in the sense as

it prevailed among the larger percentage, however Tyrrell & Bynoe (1966) were unable in the

establishment of this organism in the cultured cell. According to Hamre & Procknow (1966), who

claimed that this organism has the peculiar compounds in plasma which they concluded after

testing the virus tests in the medical graduates.

Since after 2003, the world has been discovered the 5 new corona viruses. These are not

only the human corona viruses but also been identified in birds, cows, rabbits, chickens, cats and

mice. In the way 2002-2003 epidemic or SARS-Corona virus (Severe Acute Respiratory

Syndrome) effected the 29 countries in the regions of America (North and South), Asia and Europe

where the total number of infections were the 8098 and the causalities were the 774 (CDC, 2018).

While the current epidemic or Covid-19 has affected the 191 countries in the world where it

effected the 124m peoples worldwide from which 2.74m fatalities have been recorded. Therefore,

this growing quantity of corona viruses and its quality of increasing quickly has damaged

significantly the normal patterns of living and alarming the future of human beings on the earth.

In the result of its circulation in almost all of the countries, the competent authorities had taken the

drastic steps. According to Huelsman (2020) more than 421 m children has been impacted as a

result of funds cutting in education establishments in 39 nations due to the Covid-19 havoc, OECD.

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Coronavirus pandemic not only suppress its deadly affects over the daily activities but also it has

affected the mental, physical and emotional health of the masses. Such practices lead to national

and international lockdowns as a result of which the poor cash flows in the markets occurs.

(Niranjan, 2020). Studies carried out by Evans (2020) hold that the deadly virus known as

Coronavirus disrupt the celebrations and gatherings which causes mental health problems. in

developing nations coronavirus causes economic shocks when governments announce lockdown

in order to stop the speedy spread of infection. Such lockdowns were not only limited to major

sectors the most prominent victims of the pandemic were two main sectors i.e., education and

transportation (Haleem et al., 2020). Due to deadly effect of the said pandemic countries across

the world cautioned their general public to be responsive and follow the SOPs which includes

handwashing, facemask, any kind of physical distancing etc.

On 31st December 2019 Health Commission in Wuhan reported the first case of Covid-19

(Media, 2020). The outbreak of pandemic restricts people to their homes in complete isolation to

avoid any kind of social distancing which locked the education system of countries also (Today,

2020). Due to Covid-19 the education system faces serious challenges which includes change in

curriculum, teaching methods, etc. (Owusu-Fordjour, Koomson, & Hanson, 2015). World Health

Organization announces the Covid-19 as a pandemic when there occurs its large spread which

encounters 114 countries in a short time of just three months. According to Tam (2020) 22 states

have decided to declare the limited quarantining and it also significantly halts the enrollment in

colleges and universities. Studies carried out by Wajidi et al., (2020) presents that the worldwide

spread of pandemic causes serious threats to the education sector of the countries. The outbreak of

Covid-19 has severely affected the education system (UNESCO, 2020). Keeping in view the

deadly situations across the globe many countries aimed to deliver classes by online sources which

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includes radio, television, and other platforms. However, in many countries especially developing

countries students lack access to online resources to compensate which textbooks, equipment, etc.,

were provided to meet the needs of their students (Mustafa, 2020).

It was the large disruption of education which was ever recorded in the history results due to

pandemic which affects the students, teachers, and parents. By mid-April in 2020 it was recorded

that 94 percent of students across the world get affected due to pandemic which was 1.58 billion

of the total population of the world. These closures of schools drastically affect the development

of education sector as it was reported that during the second quarter of 2020 almost 86 percent of

the school going children in developing nations were compelled to leave their school. Similarly,

the statistics from developed nations presents that there were 20 percent of the school going

children who compelled to leave their schools due to closures of schools during pandemic.

However, studies carried out by Sintema (2020) suggests that the strategy to staying at

home and lockdown both are the need of an hour as there occur deadly transmission of disease.

The first identified country which announce the closure of schools and institutes was Bhutan. Also,

there declared the less hours for business activities (Kuensel, 2020). In Bhutan, the nationwide

lockdown was observed in August 2020 when the cases of coronavirus seized (Palden, 2020).The

similar argument in order to support the current discussion is Akhter (2020), according to the

author delays of classes resulted into the detrimental effects which strongly hampers the academic

routine and performance of the pupils in the world. Moreover, United Nations Educational,

Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO, 2020) in one of its reports on the Covid-19 and

its implications, stated that till the March 30, more than 180 countries have decided to shut their

school doors for their students in nationwide and in the result 87 percent of the world’s students

affected i.e., 1.5 billion of learners effected as the result of school closures.

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According to the statistics, the bulk of the students in the world was enrolled in the primary and

tertiary education levels. These limitations on the impoverished learners that continuing with the

less resources of education while being outside the education system are severe in the condition

(UNESCO). This condition has limit size the scope of their learnings and the quality of their

education. According to UNESCO research reports, the reason behind such scenario is the lack of

execution of learning plans inside their houses while on the other sides the caregivers to pupils like

their parents and guardians insist the governments to foster the education of their children in their

parent’s homes. It was further stated that most of the parents have the reduced knowledge and

mechanism of learning which is discouraging the growth of learnings of their children. According

to Baker and Kim (2020) the learning of the students is at risk and its impacts will be the long

lasting. In the sense, it is noticed and analyzed that the new method of learning in the result of

epidemic is temporary and there are no as such reforms or initiatives been taken for the

development of new form of learning. Whether they are parents, teachers or educational policy

makers, they are at the one common agenda that online learning is not significant and is

discouraging the education of the carriers. According to Furfaro et al (2020) the disclosure of the

educational institutes and the distance learning or remote learning is not yet discussing in any point

of federal legislations of the countries.

Learning and teaching gap, disruption in the academic calendar, reduction in the

international education, delayed and cancellation of educational seminars and conferences both at

national and international levels, workforce loss at the institutions, disruption in the discipline and

momentum, suspension in the examination, level shifting without examinations and the budget

cutting for higher education system are the severe impacts of COVID-19. In the sense, it

completely hampers the education system worldwide. The Covid-19 on one hand where affected

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the millions of the population of the world, it also gives us new way of thinking which changes

our overall activities pattern of which one is the digital learning (Dhawan, 2020). Digital learning

help to compensate the losses faced due to lockdown. However, due to pandemic almost 40 percent

of the developing nations failed to support the digital learning during the time of epidemic. On the

basis of past experiences, it was found that whenever there occurs any instance of this kind it gives

rise to gender inequality on one hand and education inequality on the other hand. Also, during this

time when girls remain in their homes, they are supposed to perform domestic Chores and boys

have to go to farms due to which they cannot get the time for learning. Moreover, many people

lack the facility of internet and the basic material for gaining knowledge which further worsen the

situation.

In the result of this pandemic, every country in the world has taken the drastic steps and

adopted the multiple measures to respond the corona virus pandemic. These countries not only

tried to save and protect their peoples but also tried to continue to their activities, more specifically

their production, consumption and education according to their capability and given resources.

The advanced countries in the world like United States of America, United Kingdom, Germany,

Italy, Australia, and France who have the technological advancement decided to adopt the

complete distance learning in order to respond or compensate the loss in their education sectors as

a result of corona virus. In the way, they shifted and enhanced the e-learning platforms in their

countries like Moodle system, LMS and Cloud system of e-learning. They developed the common

platforms for distance learning, created venter portals and give access to students via mobile

devices to their e-content. They created the digital resources like textbooks and learning materials

where parents, institutions, stakeholders, publishers, and teachers joined their hand together for

the compensation of loss in the education or learning, Azzi-Huck & Shmis (2020). Furthermore,

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India and China are the good examples in the regard, being the most populist countries, they have

developed the good e-learning mechanism in their countries. India has provided the complete

educational courses in many languages to their students while China has created the 100 percent

digital learning for their students. On the other hand, the countries with the traditional or outdated

technologies have used the Radio and TV in compensation to this loss. The countries like Brazil,

Argentina, Chile who have the serios issues of internet connectivity used the traditional

technologies for delivering education to their students. According to IAU (2020) Radio, TV and

YouTube channels were frequently used for recording the educational material and was provide to

students who have the lack of access to internet. Similarly, Indonesia has adopted the digital

education system in compensation to loss while Malaysia launched the new Tele vision channel in

the compensation of loss to their education system.

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 CHAPTER 3. METHODOLOGY

3.0 Introduction

This project aims to determine the impact of COVID-19 on the education in Pakistan by accessing

and highlighting the knowledge on both Covid-19 and education. For the given purpose, researcher

is using the watercolor paintings for presenting the problem of statement under consideration.

Moreover, the educationists and students were interviewed for drawing inferences for supporting

our watercolor paintings regarding the Covid-19, education, and the relationship between them.

Therefore, this study will be conducted by utilizing the fine arts tool i.e., watercolor paintings.

For investigating the hypothesizes, study has thoroughly and extensively reviewed the

following research studies (2020), Huelsman (2020), Tanveer et. al (2020), UNESCO (2020) for

creating the inferences upon the respective objectives. For the estimation of given objectives, the

methodology in the regard is given as below.

3.0.1 Watercolor Paintings:

To access the knowledge on Covid-19 and education, and to analyze the causal relationship

between them, this fine arts study is using the watercolor paintings for drawing the inferences on

its mentioned objectives. Based on this extensive reading, study has compiled the findings that are

fulfilling its objectives and now presenting them in the form of watercolor paintings. These

watercolor paintings are 8 in the number.

3.0.2 Qualitative Interviews

Due to the Covid-19 and the lockdowns because of this pandemic, everyone severely ails.

It seriously affects their living patterns including education. To see its impact on education,

interviews have been conducted from the students and educationists. The interferences in this

regard able to paint more thoroughly. The questions in the regard were what Covid-19 is, how it

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affects you, how it impacts your curricular and non-curricular activities, what is its impact on your

educational institution and what are remedial measures you follow.

Results of the extensive reading and in-depth- interviews revealed that the Covid-

19 severely ailed the academic life of students. Therefore, this study will present the impact of

Covid-19 on education by watercolor paintings presented in the next chapter. For which researcher

will use different materials and mediums given as follow:

3.1 Material and Medium

Researcher uses the scholar sheets for the watercolor paintings along with the watercolor brushes

for developing and highlighting the knowledge on impact of Covid-19 on education.

These paintings are drawn on the smooth surface of scholar sheets. Being an important part

of fine arts, these paintings are used to produce the idea more clearly about the problem under

consideration. Moreover, these paintings based on scholar sheets and color brushes are very easy

to use, they are easily available in the market and at very low prices and we can easily mold

information by erasing our mistakes without harming the quality of our sheets. In the way, this

artistic approach makes the researcher to reflect more and to produce more transparent and creative

work.

3.2 Procedure/ Workplan

The present research study entitled as, “impact of Covid-19 on education” has done the

extensive reading to investigate the impact of coronavirus on the education and learning of

students. After reading and analyzing multiple pieces of academic writings more thoroughly,

researcher conducted the qualitative interviews from different educationists. In the way, researcher

collected the important data and produce their 8 sketches on the scholar sheets with the help of

watercolors.

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 CHAPTER 4. PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

4.0 Introduction

Across the globe, it was found that the deadly virus when turn out to be a widespread

pandemic it compels governments and authorities to carry out lockdown activities in the form of

smart lockdown and hard lockdown. These practices affect almost every sector across the globe.

However, it has been found the most vulnerable sectors during the epidemic were education and

transportation. Education is a key to success for any nation. It often welcomed as a building block

on which the growth and development of economies depends but with the wake of deadly dread

of pandemic across the globe many countries decided to shut down their educational institutes,

schools, colleges, etc., on temporarily basis in order to control the transforming effect of virus

(TUAC Secretariat Briefing, 2020). As reported by UNESCO (2020)throughout the world the

number of students get affected due to school closures reaches to 1.5 billion. The impacts of Covid-

19 on education system affects the overall education activities which also involves the extension

of school years and start of new semesters (Pujari, 2020). The coronavirus dreads cause several

transformations in the different spheres of life ranging from social to economic perspective. Many

governments across the globe introduced the suspension of classes in the wake of pandemic to

reduce the virus spread. School closures give rise to teaching from home activities. These policy

interventions give rise to information technology to combat the disease. Present study aims to

study the impacts of Covid-19 on education which has suspended the education activities across

the globe. In order to highlight the said issue researcher uses watercolor paintings. For drawing

these paintings’ scholar sheets were used. The purpose of using paintings is to highlight the

pertaining issue in detail. Preceding sections will discuss how the virus has affected the education

sector.

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4.1 Impacts of Covid-19 on Learning

Figure 1Impacts of Covid-19 on Learning

Above painting is presenting the activities carried out during the pandemic. For this painting

scholar sheets are used. The main reason of using these sheets is their easy availability and low

cost. Also, it is convenient to use watercolors of these sheets as their absorbing nature do not allow

the spread of color due to which it is looking attractive.

When the deadly transformation of the virus transmitted across the borders, nations decided

to suspend their daily life activities for a short time period. To maintain the social distancing

practices schools and other learning institute were decided to close for suspending in-person

instructions. This suspension gives rise to remote learning. A report presented by UNESCO

maintained that in the last week of April 2020 186 countries from all over the world decided to

shut down their educational institutes. These shutdowns affect approximately 76% of students

across the globe. Many countries decided to suspend their learning practices and shut down their

institutions in the first week of March 2020 while in other countries (China & South Korea) these

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activities were suspended since January 2020. Countries like Portugal, Ireland, Malta etc.,

announces to keep their educational institutes close throughout the year.

Such practices severely affect the students, teachers, and parents across the world. A survey

was conducted from more than 10,000 teachers which reveals interesting facts during the

lockdown. It was found that during lock down 92.8 percent teachers across the globe got exhausted,

were stressful and anger and other health related problems. the main reasons behind such stress

were bloated tasks provided from the administration without any prevalence of any proper

environment to carry out them. Also, improper infrastructure, less or no availability of internet to

teachers and students further worsen the situation. On one hand the digital learning increases the

digital competence however it raises many issues for student, their parents, and teachers who urged

to carryout normal activities routine wise with properly followed SOPs.

4.2 Education System Post-Covid

Product 2 is depiction the reponing of the educational establishments with the SOPs after the

coronavirus pandemic.

Figure 2Education System Post-Covid

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Above painting is describing the situation of school reopen after pandemic. For this it uses scholar

sheets and watercolors. The basic reason of preferring watercolors over any other source is their

advantageous use which gives a beautiful look to the product without causing any damage to paper

and brushes.

Due to closure of educational institutes the process of quality education stopped. This gives

rise to the practices of learning from home, teaching through television etc. for overcoming the

pandemic and restricting the social distancing students and teachers were advised to carry out

learning and teaching activities by staying at home. However, these practices failed to provide any

quality education. When different researchers, policy makers and thinkers across the world opine

that the deadly virus will remain for more than two years and traces were found holding that the

virus will hit the world again and again. By configuring these views governments across the world

plan to device strategies to continue their education system by introducing the system of digital

learning. When this system fails to provide quality education every mass of the world insists to

reopen the educational institutes so that the loss of education can be compensated. Governments

in this regard starts schools re-opening from October 2020 with some definite SOPs. During the

whole course of pandemic when governments found no other way for providing quality education

other than schools re-opening. When school reopening was devised several SOPs were projected

which are as follow:

Before schools reopening governments advised the holding authorities to disinfect the surfaces

prone to larger touches within the schools, in buses, or in playgrounds everywhere. These practices

were necessary to follow on daily basis for a number of times. Those projects within the school

which do not belong to a single person but are shared i.e., toys, equipment etc., must be cleaned

on daily basis or their use should be avoided wherever and whenever it is possible.

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 • Additionally, the vehicles used by school must be disinfected.

• Ensure the cleaning and disinfection practice to be carried after every 5-6 hours.

• Wear mask on regular basis

Out of these SOPs the focused one was wearing of mask. Data obtained from different

resources i.e., websites, reports, conference preceding etc., reveals that many schools were

reopened to carry out their normal activities. All schools were following the SOPs properly but

there found a large difference among the school practices which were observed before the

pandemic and those which were observed after the spread of deadly virus which will be discussed

in the preceding sections.

4.3 Online Learning

Product 3 is depiction the online or digital or distance learning for continuing the education process

in compensation to the loss of education of students that resulted from the coronavirus pandemic.

Figure 3Online Learning

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 This painting has been created on the scholar sheet and watercolors have been used for the

drawing. It is the fine arts approach which leads the researcher to convey his or her ideas more

clearly. In the way, this picture is presenting that as the result of COVID-19, the competent

authorizes of different countries had taken the drastic steps to continue the education of their

students in accordance with their given resources. The countries with the technological

advancement had taken the multiple steps for the complete distance learning. In the way, they

created the e-learning platforms in their countries and give access to their students via mobile

devices to their e-content. They created the digital resources like textbooks and learning materials

where parents, institutions, stakeholders, publishers and teachers joined their hand together for the

compensation of loss in the education or learning, Azzi-Huck & Shmis (2020). On the other hand,

the countries with the traditional or outdated technologies have used the Radio and TV in

compensation to this loss. According to IAU (2020) Radio, TV and YouTube channels were

frequently used for recording the educational material and was provide to students who have the

lack of access to internet. The role of the companies like Google and Microsoft is also appreciable.

They provided the efficient tools for the online learning and properly assists the teachers and

students about the use of remote education.

Online learning is a good tool as it compensates the education system at the time of natural

disasters like coronavirus of 2003, and post-earthquake periods in the different countries Baytiyeh,

2018. Moreover, the author emphasis on the availability if internet material and the contribution

of the parents for the smooth enhancement of online learning as they are the responsible after the

teachers for ensuring the learning of the children on assigned tasks. Distance learning is also good

in the regard which motivates students to seek learning by doing, which enable the capability to

teach their selves and to personalize their education. The older students and the educational

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institutions who were previously familiar with the digital learning or remote learning have the

better outcomes than the new ones.

On the other hand, the limitations on the education or remote learning has the negative

impacts on the learning ability of the carriers and being outside the education system are severe in

the condition (UNESCO). This condition has limit size the scope of their learnings and the quality

of their education. According to UNESCO research reports, the reason behind such scenario is the

lack of execution of learning plans inside their houses. It was further stated that most of the parents

have the reduced knowledge and mechanism of learning which is discouraging the growth of

learnings of their children. According to Baker and Kim (2020) the learning of the students is at

risk and its impacts will be the long lasting.

4.4 Reopening of education institutes

Figure 4Reopening of education institutes

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Above painting is resenting the situation of classroom sanitization for which femicides are being

used to avoid maximum contact with virus. For this painting scholar sheets of fine quality are used

which helps to present situation in an efficient way. Also, watercolor is used in the painting to

make it clearer and more understandable.

As there exist no evidence to measure the disease transformation progress due to closure

of schools. However, there were many incidences of adverse impact of the said school closure on

the safety of children going to school. The school closure not only restrict the learning process of

children it also limits the well-being of children. Moreover, interrupting education services were

serious which demoralize the societies both economically and socially. These instances give rise

to insecurity among masses, which give rise to the instances of inequality by reducing social

cohesion. Therefore, by considering such instance governments find it the need of hour to activate

the social activities followed by SOPs.

In order to safeguard the right of education for every child national governments find it

necessary to reopen the schools by ensuring the health and safety of the children. For this purpose,

schools were opened by focusing a number of key safety measures where the first measure adopted

was the sanitization of every school, college and institute. To paramount the best interest of

children governments reopened their schools and decided to fight against the deadly virus. For this

across the borders leaders decided to grapple the uncertain trade-offs by easing the lockdown

practices. These practices help decision makers to schedule the reopening of schools for which

they prepare different planning processes for education. in the regard it was found that

contextualized and adaptations of the safety measure are mandatory for meeting the right of

education for every child. When a number of social evils were responded school, reopening was

considered important in case if every country ensures the proper following of safety measure.

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4.5 Temperature Gun for Checking Temperature

Product 5 is depicting the Mandatory SOPs i.e., temperature checking, framed by the governments

or competent authorities in the time of post Covid-19 for continuing the education of their children

in the educational establishments.

Figure 5Temperature Gun for Checking Temperature

This painting has been created via scholar sheet by using the watercolors and drawing

brushes. This is a significant tool of fine arts and really helped the researcher to enhance the artistic

capabilities in his/herself. This painting in the regard is talking about the SOP’s in which their

teacher is using the temperature gun for checking the temperature of her students in the institution

which the government has framed for continuation of student’s education in the educational

institutions. SOP’s have been designed in the best interest of students, teachers and parents by

taking their health and education considerations into the account.

Why, when, which and where schools to reopen and how the students should learn at the

educational establishments? These SOPs completely provides the answers to the following

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questions for the purpose that students should continue their education and their health should be

safe and protected. These SOPs have been arrived after the mutual understanding of teachers,

students, parents and governments and the purpose behind the initiative is mitigate the risk of

pandemic in their institution. The interviews in the regard summarizes that these SOPs are only

the way for avoiding the disease and to continue their education. Moreover, respondents from the

educational institutions strongly emphases that these SOPs should be strictly follow and

punishment should be reward in case of the violation of SOPs.

4.6 Safe Distance

Product 6 is the presentation of another mandatory SOP i.e., safe distance, which have been

prescribed by the national and international health experts for continuing education in their

educational setups. These SOP’s have been prescribed to the competent authorities of the

governments which have the havoc of coronavirus pandemic in their countries.

Figure 6Safe Distance

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 This painting has been created via scholar sheet by using the watercolors and drawing

brushes. Being an important tool of presentation in the Fine Arts it abled the researcher to enhance

the artistic capabilities in his/herself. This painting in the regard is talking about the SOP’s in

which their teacher maintains the distance between the students in the classroom for continuing

their education. These SOP’s have been designed in the best interest of students, teachers and

parents by taking their health and education considerations into the account.

School environment is the best place for the learning, it develops the abilities to learn

efficiently and work as a team while learning outside the education system has the deficiencies

and resulted into lack of education and skills (UNESCO). According to Goodman et al (2015)

education in the educational institutions or the classrooms activities plays the vital role in the

growth and grooming of children and they create the social skills in the students which have a

direct impact on the future or their personal and professional life’s. A similar argument regarding

the current discussion is Malecki and Elliot (2002) and Cunha and Heckman (2007). These authors

worked in the similar context and theorized that learning in the classrooms improves the ability of

students and create the collaborative and productive skills in their selves. Moreover, these

researchers postulated that school enrollment has the positive significant impact on the social and

cognitive skills of the students.

Corona virus pandemic limit size the education of the students like suspension in their

classes, suspension in their exams, cancellation of their educational seminars, curricular activities

and the shifting into next levels without the exams. In the way, governments decided to continue

their education in the educational institutions and framed the SOPs and strongly recommended to

follow them for the continuation of their education. In the way, these SOPs are following by their

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teachers as presented above in the figure. In the figure, distance has been maintained between the

students in the classroom where two seats have been remained empty for each student.

4.7 Sanitization

Product 7 is the presentation of another SOP i.e., Sanitization. It has been defined mandatory and

lender of the last resort. It is only discovered way for killing the corona virus. For the purpose, the

infected governments set it mandatory in their educational institutions and is now the part of

education system today, the painting in the regard is presented below.

Figure 7Sanitization
This painting has been created via scholar sheet by using the watercolors and drawing

brushes. Being the student of Fine Arts, researcher was quite familiar with this method due to

which researcher produce the best and transparent painting which is presenting the idea of

sanitization in his or her society, as a result of corona virus pandemic. This painting or product 7

is showing the whole sanitization process in which a female student is washing hands under the

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tap. This sanitization has been teaching in various levels and the competent authorities had used

the multiple sources for the learnings. National and international public health experts also

recommended that hands should be wash for 20 seconds after the outdoor activity. In the

governments in their pakistan emphasis on the importance of sanitizations and provides their usage

method through internet, newspapers, Television adds, mobile phones etc. in the way, proper

teachings were enhanced and conveyed to the general public for the safety and reliability of the

public health. Therefore, sanitization in the educational institutions and the personal sanitizers

have been recommendation for continuing their education in compensation to their loss of

education because of Covid-19.

4.8 Extracurricular Activities

Figure 8Extracurricular Activities

Above painting is presenting the situation where the children are involved in extracurricular

activities. For this, scholar sheets were used along with watercolors which give the painting an

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immense and convicting exposure by which anyone can get the clear idea of phenomenon under

consideration.

As we know that extracurricular activities are equally important as the academics are.

When students remain attached to both academics and extracurricular activities they can develop

and prosper more. Different studies reveal that students who get involved in extracurricular

activities perform well in their academics. They learn and improve their time management skills.

These activities made them disciplined. They learn useful skills which helps them a lot during the

hours of their free time. These activities taught them basic sense of commitment. However, in the

wake of coronavirus these activities were also suspended along with the school closures which

badly affect the mental health of peers.

When the social interaction among peers reduced due to the lockdown and maintenance of

safe distance students get mentally and physical affected. Statistics present that when the

instructional time of the student get affected or disrupted it will severely affect the learning ability

of him. In most cases it was found that the student whose education activities were suspended due

to the school closures they never return to the school after schools reopening. Also, it was found

that the more likely impacts of these disruptions were on the children belonging to the poorest

families. While some instances were found in those households whose income levels were high.

Also, it was found that more children remain out of the school there will be more crime ratio,

mental and physical health etc. The instances of being out of school give rise to other social evils,

like crimes, robbery, sexual exploitation, violence, etc. Also, when there reported the long closures

in the countries there observe the instances of school-based services disruption, immunization,

anxiety, stress, etc. due to which there was increase loss of peer interaction. These issues were

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more in the less developed countries where there were a large number of inequality instance were

existed already. To respond this worldwide policy makers consider it safe to reopen the schools.

4.9 Quantitative Summary

For observing the said impacts of the virus on the education along with mental and physical health

of children an online survey was conducted which incorporated the inclusion of parents, children,

and teachers. For survey five Likert scale was devised ranges from strongly agreed to strongly

disagreed. Results of the survey support overall above stated discussions where it was found that:

• When there will be school closure quality of education will be affected.

• Deadly effects of virus are largely shrinking the education sector throughout the world.

• It was mandatory to close the school for preventing the virus.

• Digital learning fails to provide the quality education.

• The lockdown severely affects the physical and mental health of people.

• Crime ratio increased during the lockdown. Mostly common instances were found in

the children of young age.

• The lockdown when disrupt the education activities it gives rise to the school drops

outs.

Moreover, the results of the survey regarding the age of participants, devices used for the

online or digital learning and the evaluation of online learning are given below in the figure 9.

According to these statistics present in A, B and C, the 18-22 years old students have the largest

ratio i.e., 53 percent who accessed to online learning during the covid-19 period. Moreover, 38

percent of students who accessed the digital leaning were lies in the age group 23-32. The

interesting fact regarding the discussion is that 43-52 years old students also accessed to the online

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education and their ratio was 3.1 percent. Moreover, Smart phones or mobile devices are most

used devices for accessing the online learning and the using ratio was the 52 percent.

Figure 9 Survey Results

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 CHAPTER 5. SUMMARY

Coronavirus also known as COVID-19 is a viral disease which transformed from person to person

and causes death. It surges over almost every region of the world. However, its shocks to the

education sector throughout the world were exponential where the deadly virus has set the clock

back to the time when countries were focusing to set international goals for educational attainment.

The most vulnerable segment of the economy was the education sector where the virus

disproportionately lowers down the numbers of school going children along with lowering the

quality of education. In the way, Covid-19 resulted into the learning and teaching gap, disruption

in the academic calendar, reduction in the international education, delayed and cancellation of

educational seminars and conferences both at national and international levels, workforce loss at

the institutions, disruption in the discipline and momentum, suspension in the examination, level

shifting without examinations and the budget cutting for higher education system are the severe

impacts of COVID-19. Therefore, Covid-19 severely impacted the productive, cognitive,

collaborative and social skills of the students. Several practices and SOPs were projected to

continue the education however these practices were proved robust and leads to schools’ closure

which also give rise to digital learning. The digital learning also known as remotes learning makes

sure to provide education by using an online medium i.e., internet but the practices of digital

learning fail to provide quality education to the masses. In most cases it was found that there exist

a loss of learning and exclusion which suspend the socio-economic activities which not only affect

the goal four of SDG also, unleashing the student’s potential to read and write. The main effect of

the deadly virus was the restriction of the social and physical activities which not only affect the

physical health but also leads to give rise to several mental health related issues. There can

observed a significant gap between the post-COVID education activities and after-COVID

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activities. The main thing which compels the school reopening was the stagnant rise of social evils.

There were many instances of ongoing social evils were reported which insist governments to

restore their educational activities by reopening the educational institutes.

The reopening of schools was based on the large adaptation of preventive measure which

will lead to decrease the interactions among students, limiting their social contacts by staggering

their timetables. Also, the preventive measure ensures hand hygiene by cleaning and sanitizing

hands for several times in a day. The social distance set to avoid the transformation of disease

ranges from 1 meter to 2 meter which was necessary to be followed by every school and every

classroom. Also, covering face with mask was mandatory for both students and teachers in schools,

colleges, and overall educational institutions. In some cases, there observed a flexibility between

the attendance during remote education which results in dropouts from school. Also, there were

hopes that the students will return when the deadly virus leaves.

While keeping in mind the school re-openings and return to the school it is necessary to

investigate the other affects like financial, technologies, emotional, mental situations of the

families. Moreover, government should allocate the more resources for the education sector after

the pandemic to mitigate the damages due to Covid-19 on education sector.

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