Open AccessCollegial Conversations at a Time of COVID-19
Author(s) -
Steve Alsop,
Darren Hoeg
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
jaste
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2560-8908
DOI - 10.33137/jaste.v11i2.34536
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , racism , action (physics) , sociology , inequality , political science , public relations , pedagogy , medicine , gender studies , virology , mathematical analysis , physics , mathematics , disease , pathology , quantum mechanics , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, citizens and social institutions have been called into action. Questions of the future of school and an appropriate educational response to the pandemic have been widely discussed and debated. As scholars of science education, subjects particularly relevant to educating about the virus and its transmission, we discuss the roles and responsibilities of science education during pandemic. The format of this paper is a dialogue. We discuss theoretical positions related to science education and the pandemic, inequalities and injustices, recent anti-Black racism protests, and concrete pedagogical responses. As our discussion progressed, we increasingly recognize teachers and students as crucial agents in developing community-grounded, critical place-based, educational responses, recognising and addressing injustices related to differential global and local realities experienced during the pandemic.