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Thinking teaching with corona/covid 19 – echoes in empty hallways

Schmitt, Irina LU orcid (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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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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Young trans* and intersex peoples' experience of school
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English
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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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https://feministperspectivescovid-19.blogg.lu.se/
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2020-06-24 14:36:56
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2023-09-27 13:56:45
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  author       = {{Schmitt, Irina}},
  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}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{06}},
  title        = {{Thinking teaching with corona/covid 19 – echoes in empty hallways}},
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  year         = {{2020}},
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