Impact of the pandemic on learning: reflections from educational psychology

There are different points of view to analyze the new dynamics of rural education in Colombia. At least two of these perspectives are in conflict. They are useful as a framework to recognize the emerging representations on the school in contexts affected by the armed conflict and the growth of illicit crops. The first perspective insists on seeing education as a homogeneous system. This one focuses its interest on quality-understood in terms of indicators and results in international tests. The second one considers specific characteristics and reclaim the sociocultural practices that occur in the school-environment relationship. In this context, this article aims to: (a) recognize representations on the school of students from an educational center located in the Catatumbo region; (b) understand these representations from the school-context relationship; and (c) present the new meanings of the rural school as a dynamic agent in the territory. The processual approach of social representations is used with the support of the grounded theory and field work. The results show the school as a living entity, an oasis of peace open to the community for decision-making.