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Teaching and learning in COVID-19 : Pandemic quilt storying
Ritchie, Jenny Phillips, Louise G. Brock, Cynthia Burke, Geraldine Cain, Melissa Campbell, Chris Coleman, Kathryn Davis, Susan Joosai, Esther
Ritchie, Jenny
Phillips, Louise G.
Brock, Cynthia
Burke, Geraldine
Cain, Melissa
Campbell, Chris
Coleman, Kathryn
Davis, Susan
Joosai, Esther
Abstract
Something changed during the pandemic; we attuned to a call. A call to action, breathing, support, activism, care, well-being, community, minimised mobilities, planetary health and our relations to all these things, and more. We are women working in education spaces across multiple communities, responsive to ongoing matters of concern (Latour, 2008), aware that our rhizomic connections have no middle or end. We use the method and metaphor of the quilt in this collaboration and hold quilting as a Feminist intervention, a return to her-stories and ways of knowing through story as we stitch together cultural and material stories of place. Our COVID-19 chronicles are a creative, collaborative exploration of the initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on learning and teaching across our respective countries. This paper is a collaboration of critical auto-ethnographies (Holman Jones, 2016), quilted and stitched together by a group of education scholars who united to research the impact of online emergency teaching that forced education site closures globally. Through this collaborative image quilting, we curated responses to our initial 100-word stories of pandemic life in 2020, that we had posted on a collaborative Padlet. Feminist, storying, and ethnographic theory inform alignment and stitching of each 100-word patch.
Keywords
COVID-19, collaborative methodology, collaborative storying, quilting as methodology
Date
2023
Type
Journal article
Journal
International Review of Qualitative Research
Book
Volume
16
Issue
4
Page Range
328-347
Article Number
ACU Department
School of Education
Faculty of Education and Arts
Faculty of Education and Arts
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Event URL
Open Access Status
Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access
License
CC BY 4.0
File Access
Open
Notes
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This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).