Wood, Margaret and Belluigi, Dina Zoe and Su, Feng and Seidl, Eva (2023) Navigating old and new terrains of academic practice in higher education: Indelible and invisible marks left from the COVID-19 lockdown. London Review of Education. ISSN 1474-8479
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Abstract
Higher education has been (re)shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic in ways which have left both indelible and invisible marks of that period. Drawing on relevant literature and informed by an exchange catalysed through a visual narrative method, authors from four European universities engage with two reflective questions in this paper: As academics, what were our experiences of our practice during the lockdown periods of the COVID-19 pandemic? What might we carry forward, resist or re-image in landscapes of academic practice emerging in the post-COVID future? The paper explores how academics experienced and demonstrated resilience and ingenuity in their academic practice during that turbulent time. Particular insights include entanglements of the personal and professional, and the importance, affordances and limitations of technology. In addition, the authors reflect on some of the ongoing challenges exacerbated by the pandemic, such as education inequalities. The paper concludes by reprising the key points on what marks were left behind in the post-COVID present, and how these relate to the future in which relational pedagogy and reflexivity are entangled in the ways we cohabit virtual and physical academic spaces.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information and Comments: | Copyright 2023, Margaret Wood, Dina Zoe Belluigi, Feng Su and Eva Seidl. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | higher education; COVID-19 pandemic; learning and teaching; academic identity; academic practice; visual narrative; |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Education and Social Sciences > School of Education |
| Depositing User: | Frank Su |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Apr 2023 09:21 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Nov 2024 14:30 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/3908 |
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