Abstract
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, schools began to massively conduct virtual classes all over the world. Virtuality generated a debate on how to understand this form of education. While some researchers argue that the virtual school maintains the structure of the traditional school, others claim that digital platforms interact with the teaching processes, altering the roles of students and teachers, leading to a new ontology of the school. This paper explores the methodology to address this new phenomenon. It reviews traditional ethnography, hybrid virtual ethnography and digital ethnography. It concludes by arguing that the offline school gives way to a new ontology where movement, emotions and the environment will determine specific ways of knowing.
Keywords:
School; Virtuality; Hybrid ethnography; Digital ethnography