Thinking teaching with corona/covid 19 – echoes in empty hallways
(2020)- Abstract
- 2020’s spring term was dramatic. Don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy some drama, and our U-turn from classroom to online teaching had some dramatic flair. There was a definite sparkle of ‘Yes we can’ (over more damp notes of panic in the online teaching novice – ‘how does that work? Why does everything take so long?’).
While I learned to handle the basics of preparing a video lecture, other forms of drama filled the news and the feeds: much less joyful ones. So many stories, so many lives; suffering, pain, violence, both structural and direct. I keep wondering, now at the end of the term, how these news feeds affect students, the students I have not-met this term and in a broader sense those students-who-are, students-who-might-be,... (More) - 2020’s spring term was dramatic. Don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy some drama, and our U-turn from classroom to online teaching had some dramatic flair. There was a definite sparkle of ‘Yes we can’ (over more damp notes of panic in the online teaching novice – ‘how does that work? Why does everything take so long?’).
While I learned to handle the basics of preparing a video lecture, other forms of drama filled the news and the feeds: much less joyful ones. So many stories, so many lives; suffering, pain, violence, both structural and direct. I keep wondering, now at the end of the term, how these news feeds affect students, the students I have not-met this term and in a broader sense those students-who-are, students-who-might-be, students-who-cannot-be?
Here are some of the stories that have haunted me, this early summer 2020. (Less)
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- author
- Schmitt, Irina LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2020-06-23
- type
- Other contribution
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- transfeminism, accessibility, Black Lives Matter, anti-racism, teaching, pedagogy, online teaching, corona/covid-19, queer, feminism, trickle-up education, Crip theory, vulnerability, gender, Gender studies, transfeminism, tillgänglighet, Black Lives Matter, anti-racism, undervisning, pedagogik, Digital undervisning, corona/covid-19, queer, feminism, trickle-up education, cripteori, sårbarhet, genus, Genusvetenskap
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- Popular Science
- project
- Young trans* and intersex peoples' experience of school
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Dr. Irina Schmitt works as senior lecturer at the Department of Gender Studies in Lund. Irina’s research engages queer- and trans-feminist scholarship and activism, currently with a study centering young trans and non-binary people’s experiences of and demands for change in school in Sweden.
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- 09564749-e4b3-4467-8c03-7072abaeb4c5
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- https://feministperspectivescovid-19.blogg.lu.se/
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- 2020-06-24 14:36:56
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