COVID19, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EDUCATION

The 2019 health crisis emerged in an environment of injustice and inequality in all parts of the world. It has shown once again the severity of inequalities within most countries, especially those in the South. Most education institutions around the world are under enormous pressure to ensure continuity of educational plans by applying new technologies, which has posed a huge problem of fairness in access to technology and the availability of technological infrastructure in some countries, such as Morocco. This research tries to analyse the complex relationship between social justice and educational system, especially E-learning and blended education. The overarching question posed is how the educational system should change and be aligned with social justice in order to reduce inequality, discrimination and injustice. Whereas this is an ideal and challenging goal, which must be the target of all countries, especially the 21st century has begun with large social inequality and regional disparity. The methodology adopted was a mixed approach. We present a theoretical analysis of the relationship between social justice and education, as well as a quantitative analysis of data collected in a study conducted in the Béni Mellal-Khénifra region of Morocco using a questionnaire administered to 133 families. The main conclusion of this study is that policymakers must put in place the means to reduce digital inequalities before the situation worse in the future, namely (i) provide digital facilities to every student, regardless of their socio-economic status; (ii) ensure a fundamental digital right by offering equal and fair access to digital technology, and (iii) encourage industrialisation and digitalisation of the economic system.