Title: Bearding the lion in his den: mapping sustainability in the educational sector during the COVID-19 pandemic

Authors: Kanwal Deepinder Pal Singh; Vinayak Jhamb

Addresses: University School of Law and Legal Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Sector-16, Dwarka, New Delhi-78, India ' University School of Law and Legal Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Sector-16, Dwarka, New Delhi-78, India

Abstract: Amidst threat, fear and anxiety of the pandemic COVID-19, multifarious issues permeating through not so permeable boundaries of states have unified the concerns and the respective responses. The pandemic has curbed all sorts of community movement and this has caused a direct effect on the schools and colleges across the globe. These educational centres have been completely shut down owing to contain the spread of this highly contagious virus. However, the academic sessions have been incessantly affected and the classes as well as final examinations have shifted to online mode. Now, the present research intends to decipher the contours of the 4th Sustainable Development Goal, 'quality education'. In these tough times, online mode of education has replaced the conventional set up and the researchers intend to analyse the sanctity of online education and its sustainability in the long run responses.

Keywords: sustainability; education; online methods of teaching; pandemic.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHRCS.2022.121918

International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies, 2022 Vol.9 No.2, pp.172 - 193

Received: 20 May 2021
Accepted: 15 Jun 2021
Published online: 07 Apr 2022 *

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