Tenet: Humanizing online teaching/learning.
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An Urgency of Teachers: the Work of Critical Digital Pedagogy
Author(s): Morris, S. M. & Stommel, J. Date: 2018 Publication: Hybrid Pedagogy Citation: Morris, S. M., & Stommel, J. (2018). An Urgency of Teachers: the Work of Critical Digital Pedagogy. Hybrid Pedagogy. https://urgencyofteachers.com/. Section on webpage: General Teaching and Course Development Tenets: Humanizing online teaching/learning. Creating cultures of care in online classrooms. Annotation: Too many approaches to teaching with technology are instrumental at best, devoid of heart and soul at worst. The role of the teacher is made impersonal and mechanistic by a desire for learning to be efficient and standardized. Solutionist approaches like the learning management system, the rubric, quality assurance, all but remove the will of the teacher to be compassionate, curious, and to be a learner alongside their students.As the authors write in their introduction: “It is urgent that we have teachers. In a political climate increasingly defined by obstinacy, lack of criticality, and deflection of fact and care; in a society still divided across lines of race, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality, income, ability, and privilege; in a digital culture shaped by algorithms that neither know nor accurately portray truth, teaching has an important (urgent) role to play.”This collection of essays explores the authors’ work in, inquiry into, and critique of online learning, educational technology, and the trends, techniques, hopes, fears, and possibilities of digital pedagogy. The ideas of this volume span almost two decades of pedagogical thinking, practice, outreach, community development, and activism. -
Teaching with Tenderness: toward an Embodied Practice
Author(s): Thompson, B. W. Date: 2017 Publication: University of Illinois Press Citation: Thompson, B. W. (2017). Teaching with Tenderness: toward an Embodied Practice. University of Illinois Press. https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/45hss6kk9780252041167.html. Section on webpage: General Teaching and Course Development Tenets: Building equity, trust, mutual respect, and support. Cultivating self-care and boundaries. Humanizing online teaching/learning. Creating cultures of care in online classrooms. Examining (dis)embodiment in virtual teaching/learning. Annotation: Teaching with Tenderness follows in the tradition of bell hooks’s Teaching to Transgress and Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, inviting us to draw upon contemplative practices (yoga, meditation, free writing, mindfulness, ritual) to keep our hearts open as we reckon with multiple injustices. Teaching with tenderness makes room for emotion, offers a witness for experiences people have buried, welcomes silence, breath and movement, and sees justice as key to our survival. It allows us to rethink our relationship to grading, office hours, desks, and faculty meetings, sees paradox as a constant companion, moves us beyond binaries; and praises self and community care. Tenderness examines contemporary challenges to teaching about race, gender, class, nationality, sexuality, religion, and other hierarchies. It examines the ethical, emotional, political, and spiritual challenges of teaching power-laden, charged issues and the consequences of shifting power relations in the classroom and in the community. Attention to current contributions in the areas of contemplative practices, trauma theory, multiracial feminist pedagogy, and activism enable us to envision steps toward a pedagogy of liberation. The book encourages active engagement and makes room for self-reflective learning, teaching, and scholarship. -
Pedagogy of Care: Covid-19 Edition
Author(s): Bali, M. Date: 2020, May 28 Publication: Critical Pedagogy, Educational Technology, Elearning Citation: Bali, M. (2020, May 28). Pedagogy of Care: Covid-19 Edition. Critical Pedagogy, Educational Technology, Elearning: Reflecting Allowed. https://blog.mahabali.me/educational-technology-2/pedagogy-of-care-covid-19-edition/ Section on webpage: Creating Cultures of Care Tenets: Building equity, trust, mutual respect, and support. Humanizing online teaching/learning. Creating cultures of care in online classrooms. Annotation: This article explores the concept of care in educational settings, emphasizing its importance in fostering inclusive and supportive learning environments, especially during the challenging times of COVID-19 pandemic. It argues for genuine care, advocating for course designs and teaching practices that prioritize equity and authenticity. The article also highlights practical strategies, including trauma-informed pedagogy, flexibility in course delivery, and opportunities for student empowerment through decision-making. -
“You make yourself entirely available”: Emotional labour in a caring approach to online teaching
Author(s): Kennedy, E. Oliver, M. & Littlejohn, A. Date: 2022, April 15 Publication: Italian Journal of Educational Technology Citation: Kennedy, E., Oliver, M., & Littlejohn, A. (2022, April 15). “You make yourself entirely available”: Emotional labour in a caring approach to online teaching. Italian Journal of Educational Technology. DOI: 10.17471/2499-4324/1237 Section on webpage: Creating Cultures of Care Tenets: Building equity, trust, mutual respect, and support. Cultivating self-care and boundaries. Humanizing online teaching/learning. Creating cultures of care in online classrooms. Examining (dis)embodiment in virtual teaching/learning. Using technology intentionally to build communities and enhance learning. Annotation: This study examines the challenges experienced, and the pedagogy adopted, by university teachers as they transferred their teaching online during the Covid-19 pandemic. This study has implications for the debate around the justification of equivalent fees for online teaching, since it reveals more emotional labour is involved. The authors state that emotional labour is key to a pedagogy of care and online this can be even more difficult and demanding. However, emotional labour is rarely recognised, rewarded, or supported by universities. By not acknowledging the role of emotional labour in teaching online, structural inequalities in higher education are likely to become further entrenched. -
Epistemologies of Doing: Engaging Online Learning through Feminist Pedagogy
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Combining Feminist Pedagogy and Transactional Distance to Create Gender-Sensitive Technology-Enhanced Learning
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Women’s Studies on Television? It’s Time for Distance Learning
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Technology Policy, Gender, and Cyberspace
Author(s): Kramarae, C. Date: 1997 Publication: Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy Citation: Kramarae, C. (1997). Technology Policy, Gender, and Cyberspace. Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 4(1), 149–58. https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/djglp/vol4/iss1/7/. Section on webpage: Feminist Pedagogy – Online Tenets: Uncovering the causes of inequality and leveraging resources toward undoing power structures. Cultivating self-care and boundaries. Humanizing online teaching/learning. Creating cultures of care in online classrooms. Examining (dis)embodiment in virtual teaching/learning. Using technology intentionally to build communities and enhance learning. Annotation: The author discusses various aspects and strategies of online learning that are important for feminist pedagogy. These include making cyberspace hospitable, participatory education, and inclusion of women’s knowledge in electronic education. -
Access as Pedagogy: A Case for Embracing Feminist Pedagogy in Open and Distance Learning
Author(s): Koseoglu, S. Date: 2020 Publication: Asian Journal Distance Education Citation: Koseoglu, S. (2020). Access as Pedagogy: A Case for Embracing Feminist Pedagogy in Open and Distance Learning. Asian Journal Distance Education, 15(1), 277–90. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3893260. Section on webpage: Feminist Pedagogy – Online Tenets: Promoting reflexivity. Promoting cooperative learning. Examining how gender, intersecting with other social categories, structures our lives, learning, and knowledge production, access to resources and information. Examining the “why” in addition to the “what”. Humanizing online teaching/learning. Creating cultures of care in online classrooms. Examining (dis)embodiment in virtual teaching/learning. Using technology intentionally to build communities and enhance learning. Annotation: In this article, the author argues for a greater embracing of feminist pedagogy in distance education. She states that she views “feminist pedagogy as an ethical position as well as a pedagogical position that calls attentive ways of looking into structuring educational services, methods, policies, and legislations that create an inclusive learning space not just for women, but for all students who are disadvantaged in their education. Within this context, student participation can be framed as a means for transformation, contributing to one’s well-being, agency and sense of power.”