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

Summary, in English

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.

• Author: Irina Schmitt
• Department/s: Department of Gender Studies; Educational Sciences
• Publishing year: 2020-06-23
• Language: English
• Links: https://feministperspectivescovid-19.blogg.lu.se/
• Document type: Web publication
• Topic: Gender Studies
• 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
• Status: Published
• Project: Young trans* and intersex peoples' experience of school