A wake-up call : equity, inequality and Covid-19 emergency remote teaching and learning
Date
2020-09-23
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Springer
Abstract
Produced from experiences at the outset of the intense times when Covid-19 lockdown
restrictions began in March 2020, this collaborative paper offers the collective reflections and
analysis of a group of teaching and learning and Higher Education (HE) scholars from a
diverse 15 of the 26 South African public universities. In the form of a theorised narrative
insistent on foregrounding personal voices, it presents a snapshot of the pandemic addressing
the following question: what does the ‘pivot online’ to Emergency Remote Teaching and
Learning (ERTL), forced into urgent existence by the Covid-19 pandemic, mean for equity
considerations in teaching and learning in HE? Drawing on the work of Therborn (2009: 20–
32; 2012: 579–589; 2013; 2020) the reflections consider the forms of inequality - vital,
resource and existential - exposed in higher education. Drawing on the work of Tronto
(1993; 2015; White and Tronto 2004) the paper shows the networks of care which were
formed as a counter to the systemic failures of the sector at the onset of the pandemic.
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CITATION: Czerniewicz, L. et al. 2020. A wake-up call : equity, inequality and Covid-19 emergency remote teaching and learning. Postdigital Science and Education, 2:946–967, doi:10.1007/s42438-020-00187-4.
The original publication is available at https://www.springer.com/journal/42438
The original publication is available at https://www.springer.com/journal/42438
Keywords
COVID-19 (Disease), Education, Higher, Educational equalization -- South Africa, Education technology
Citation
Czerniewicz, L. et al. 2020. A wake-up call : equity, inequality and Covid-19 emergency remote teaching and learning. Postdigital Science and Education, 2:946–967, doi:10.1007/s42438-020-00187-4.