1. A wake-up call: equity, inequality and Covid-19 emergency remote teaching and learning
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Johan Badenhorst, Muntuwenkosi Chili, Laura Czerniewicz, Nicola Pallitt, Craig Gokhale, Sonja Strydom, Gerrit Wissing, Emmanuel M. Mgqwashu, Najma Agherdien, Faiq Waghid, Daniela Gachago, Mike Swanepoel, Eunice Ivala, Dina Zoe Belluigi, Tracey Chambers, Paul Prinsloo, Magriet de Villiers, Alan Felix, Neil Kramm, Matete Madiba, Gitanjali Mistri, and Kelly Solomon
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inequality ,Higher education ,Inequality ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Foregrounding ,0507 social and economic geography ,Existentialism ,South Africa ,equity ,South africa ,Pandemic ,Learning ,Narrative ,Sociology ,Philosophy of education ,media_common ,pedagogy ,business.industry ,digital ,Teaching ,05 social sciences ,Educational technology ,050301 education ,Original Articles ,Equity ,Public relations ,higher education ,business ,Covid-19 ,050703 geography ,0503 education - 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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- 2020
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