La catequesis virtual en tiempos de pandemia. Relaciones que se establecen entre los niños y padres con la tecnología

Abstract

As an important pastoral action in the life of the Church, Catechesis shifted from onsite to online modality due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This change brought interesting challenges on a human, pedagogical and technological level, both for catechists, children, and parents. The ethnography analyzes the interactions between the catechists, children, and parents with technology as a consequence of streaming catechesis via Facebook (a social network) in the Diocese of Babahoyo. This analysis, which considers the relationship between participants, is based on the Actor-Network Theory (ANT). The main considerations are the relationship between humans and nonhumans, the educational actions in the virtual classroom, and the changes in the interaction between entities within the framework of the virtual catechesis. Other concepts provided by the ANT will also be reviewed, such as translation, the chain of translations, networks, and inscriptions. The research tools were interviews, participant observation, field notes, and dialogues, which lead to the selection and reduction of data for each of the sections.