Today, except for the health crisis caused by the COVID 19 situation, we are facing accompanying economic problems. The system copes with this sort of trouble by applying measures that in many cases are quite harmful to several branches of both the private and public spheres. In accordance with this, we see a wide range of issues that to some extent might be overlooked by the public despite the fact of being serious with impact on our lives.

One of the seriously affected and damaged fields is the school system, mainly basic and secondary schools. According to the Human Rights Watch report “Years Don’t Wait for Them”: Increased Inequalities in Children’s Right to Education Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, published on the 17th May 2021, an estimated 90% of the world’s school-aged children have had their education disrupted by the pandemic.

During the quarantine, children were left behind with no or just limited possibility to educating. Teachers were found unprepared. Parents nearly collapsed. Social distancing brought hardly-to-imagine problems in human life and communication.

The governments do not show sufficient willingness to perceive this task as a priority or simply, they are unable to reflect it the demanded way. No one says what we are going to do with the lives of our pupils and students. It is time to predict or visualize what we want to do with the education of our children and their basic socio-cultural-educational needs. For COVID -19 does not mean the end of it all. Our strongest human weapon, indeed, is the ability to adapt.

This Special Issue has the ambition to search for the solutions to over mentioned problems.

We encourage and welcome submissions relating to the Educational and Cultural Challenges in the COVID-19 Era and Afterwards. Potential topics include but are not limited to:

(1) Conceptual Problems of Schools Systems in Times of the COVID-19 Quarantine

(2) Innovating Curricula in Times of the COVID-19 Quarantine

(3) New Teaching Approaches in Times of the COVID-19 Quarantine

(4) Educational and Cultural Challenges – Perspectives and Plans vs Real Life in Times of the COVID-19 Quarantine

(5) Socio-cultural-educational Inclusion of the Pupils and Students in Times of the COVID-19 Quarantine

(6) Consequences of Social distancing in Times of the COVID-19 Quarantine

(7) Children's Rights to Get Educated in Times of the COVID-19 Quarantine

(8) The Role of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation in Times of the COVID-19 Quarantine