Open AccessConsidering Karma: Reviving Student Agency Amid Pandemic Disempowerment
Author(s) -
Sue Smith
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of multidisciplinary perspectives in higher education/international journal of multidisciplinary perspectives on higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2474-2554
pISSN - 2474-2546
DOI - 10.32674/jimphe.v5i1.2597
Subject(s) - karma , agency (philosophy) , sociology , pandemic , buddhism , perspective (graphical) , causality (physics) , psychological resilience , environmental ethics , covid-19 , political science , social psychology , social science , epistemology , psychology , philosophy , medicine , theology , disease , pathology , artificial intelligence , computer science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , physics , quantum mechanics
As pandemic lockdowns creep onwards to the end of 2020 many of my higher education students have become disempowered and despondent. In a bid to revive their agency and resilience a postgraduate class was offered this essay for critique. Karma is examined from contemporary understandings, and historical, and spiritual contexts, including some specifics from a Buddhist perspective where the intentions that impel actions become the prime determinants of resulting effects. Agentic attention to causality, interconnection and intention, endemic in global epistemologies, is presented as an empowering consideration regarding individual and collective activities to future researchers in the human sciences