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Found poems and imagery of physical and socialdis/connections in inclusive education during a pandemic
Cain, Melissa Phillips, Louise
Cain, Melissa
Phillips, Louise
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Sometimes it takes an unexpected and momentous event to shake teachers out of their normal routine, provoking them to reflect on what matters in education. In April 2020, when most education moved to distance learning due to COVID-19 restrictions, a team of nine education researchers from Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the United States initiated an international qualitative survey asking teachers to share their everyday narratives of navigating this sudden change forming the Teaching & Learning in COVID-19 Times study. Amidst their stories, was the overwhelming despair, struggles, and opportunities for students with differing abilities and minimal or no internet/device access. We combine teacher responses to poetically and visually story the physical and social disconnections and connections in learning and teaching. The found poems of the tension of the loss of being in the same place together and troubling new opportunities are interwoven with kaleidoscopic data visualization by using Voyant tools to reflect changing patterns in the teacher respondents’ words.
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COVID-19, education, survey, teachers
Date
2021
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Book chapter
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The Kaleidoscope of Lived CurriculaLearning Through a Confluence of Crises: 13th Annual Curriculum & Pedagogy Group 2021 Edited Collection
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109-125
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School of Education
Faculty of Education and Arts
Faculty of Education and Arts
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