Socio-Psychological Impact of Online Schooling on Students’ and Parents: A Case Study of North Delhi School

This paper aims to understand the socio-psychological impact of online schooling on students and parents. The paper only aims to discuss the important issues and the nature of problems. A case study has been done in class 8th of a government school of North Delhi. Data was collected through purposive sampling and unstructured interviews were taken. The socio-economic contexts from which the students belong have shown some adverse impacts with regard to social, emotional and cognitive development. The issue of digital divide, parenting stress and cognitive fatigues were found to be common. With regard to the theoretical perspective results were analyzed and discussed.

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