On "Being There" in a Pandemic: Are Classrooms without Bodies Still "Real" Places of Learning?

Autor/in	Angelone, Lauren
Titel	On "Being There" in a Pandemic: Are Classrooms without Bodies Still "Real" Places of Learning?
Quelle	In: Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 33 (2021) 2, S.183-191 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1056-3997
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; COVID-19; Pandemics; Distance Education; Electronic Learning; Educational Environment; School Effectiveness; Vignettes; Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Schuleffizienz; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen
Abstract	In March 2020, schools and universities were abruptly shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Just as abruptly as they shut down, they were moved to fully online instruction. It was and continues to be an adjustment from classrooms with bodies to online classrooms without bodies, and now in-person classrooms with distanced masked bodies, or some combination of the two. As such, a discourse has appeared decrying the absence of what we know was the "real" educational environment. In this commentary, I use a series of vignettes to illuminate the ontological and epistemological dilemma of this discourse and then bring it into dialogue with literature and theory in order to present an argument that complexifies the assumption that real learning is in-person learning. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01