Transition Towards The Governance of The Return To The Face-To-Face Classroom In The Face of Anti-Covid-19 Policies

As of October 2021, the pandemic has claimed the lives of more than four million.In Mexico, confirmed cases of around a million victims accumulate.In this scenario, the Mexican State has escalated into a conflict with Higher Education Institutions regarding the return to classes.While educational policies revolve around a lack of refinement and return to classes, even when young people do not have the basic immunization scheme, public universities lead the practice of the virtual classroom.The objective of this work is to analyze and discuss the differences between the public administration of education and the autonomy of the universities regarding the return to the traditional classroom.A literature review was carried out considering the link between policies to mitigate and contain the pandemic in relation to the protocols for returning to face-to-face classes followed by public universities.Axes, trajectories, and relationships between risk prevention, self-care, and co-responsibility stand out.In relation to the state of the art, the asymmetries between political and educational actors are discussed.