In Pursuit of an ‘Ethos of Community’: Postdigital Education in the Age of Covid-19

Green, Ben

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“…"The pandemic has exposed how reliant we all are on each other, how the health of the disadvantaged impacts on the advantaged, how events in one country impact on lives in others, how economies are impacted by the health of the people whose labor they rely on and on the health of those excluded from the labor market, and how we can only fight some battles united" (Xafis, 2020, p. 225). In many ways, the situation of COVID-19 has created a "perfect moral storm" (Xafis et al, 2020) that will rely on an "ethos of community" to move forward (Green, 2020). Worldwide, people and organizations collaborated to create helpful resources.…”

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The Effects of COVID-19 on Early Childhood Education and Care: Research and Resources for Children, Families, Teachers, and Teacher Educators

Jalongo

2021

Early Childhood Educ J

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The COVID-19 world health crisis has profound implications for the care and education of young children in homes and schools, the lives of preservice and inservice teachers, and the work of college/university faculty. This article begins by discussing the implications of a world health pandemic for education and the challenges of conducting a literature review on such a rapidly evolving topic. The next four sections categorize the COVID-19 literature into themes: (1) threats to quality of life (QoL) and wellness, (2) pressure on families and intensification of inequities, (3) changes in teaching methods and reliance on technology, and (4) restructuring of higher education and scholarship interrupted. Each of the four themes is introduced with a narrative that highlights the current context, followed by the literature review. Next is a compilation of high-quality, online resources developed by leading professional organizations to support children, families, and educators dealing with the COVID crisis. The article concludes with changes that hold the greatest potential to advance the field of early childhood education and care.

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The Effects of COVID-19 on Early Childhood Education and Care: Research and Resources for Children, Families, Teachers, and Teacher Educators

Jalongo

2021

Early Childhood Educ J

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“…Second, people facing extraordinary risks and costs have indeed acted with generosity and trust on a massive scale. This brings about a rise in optimism about human nature (Green, 2020), as well as the importance of formal education (Rapanta et al, 2020), public pedagogy (including the fight against fake news) (Rose, 2020), and many other public functions. Healthcare cannot fight the pandemic alone, just as driving schools cannot fight traffic accidents alonepandemic responses are located at the intersections of many different fields and disciplines.…”

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Surreal economics, fiscal stimulus, and the financialization of public health: Politics of the covid-19 narrative

Peters

Jandrić

2021

Educational Philosophy and Theory

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It's not surprising that the extent of the US's deficit financing is turning heads. President Biden's $1.9 trillion deficit stimulus package comes on top of Trump's stimulus of $2.35 trillion which doesn't include the Federal Reserve's estimated $4 trillion. The US Government has devoted over $6 trillion to banishing Covid-19 and economic recovery. These statistics dwarf anything in the past including the Great Depression and US participation in WWII. Calvin Woodward (2021) describes it as 'surreal economics' at warp speed. The only saving grace is that borrowing is cheap. Some critics with little understanding of the accumulated debt think that the current stimulus might see the US economy outpace China for the first time in 45 years (Chan, 2021).Although as Ceyhun Elgin et al. ( 2020) have demonstrated the US deficit financing and fiscal response to Covid-19 as a percentage of GDP is well below Japan, Luxemburg, Belgium, and Malta (all above 15%) and Austria, Qatar, Slovenia, Singapore and the Netherlands (between 10-15%). US debt held by the public as a share of GDP is about 107%. Andrew Van Damm (2020) suggests: 'This year, for the first time since World War II, the United States will owe more than its economy can produce in a given year, the nonpartisan committee estimates. That's expected to rise to 107 percent by 2025 and as high as 120 percent by 2030 … ' Elgin et al. (2020) have suggested that public health measures including 'closures, travel restrictions, and city lockdowns' have disrupted supply chains and led to lay-offs while monetary policies have increased liquidity to banks and included transfers to households, the unemployed and the public health system. They develop an Economic Stimulus Index (CESI) after a review of economic policies adopted by 166 countries as a response to Covid-19 pandemic showing significant correlations of for example, GDP per capita health expenditures with economic stimulus packages.The sheer size of the US's Covid-19 fiscal stimulus response indicates some qualms about the government underwriting of share markets still bubbling as though there is no problem indicating the extent to which these markets seem to have decoupled from the ongoing distress of civil society. Other economies have been concerned with preventing financial system risk while keeping an eye on the debt-to-GDP ratio. China, the only economy which grew in 2020, devoted an equivalent US trillion fighting the effects of the virus and Hong Kong, some $40 billion. Japan provided a trillion dollars in liquidity and four stimulus spending packages of over a couple of US trillion. The EU provided a raft of stimulus packages expanding its PEPP program to a total of $2.24 trillion while also increasing Central Bank liquidity. The world economy shrank by 3.5% and most governments around the world followed similar stimulus response packages with an accent of relief to households and the unemployed (Alpert, 2021). Cassim et al. (2020) of McKinsey & Company reported some $10 trillion rescue in first two months of ...

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“…While exploring radical openness, I came upon Giroux (2018) who writes about an ethos of community—a pedagogy of education where students are encouraged and enabled to go forth holding hope and a sense of possibility. Green (2020) writes how an ethos of community counters the ideology of a postdigital climate with entrenched identity politics; instead, it favors a system of collective action. They assert that, to become part of a broader social movement that embodies promise for a communal life where/in people with differences live together, we must find new definitions for connections between languages, cultural meanings, everyday practices of living, and material relationships.…”

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Reintegration as Border Pedagogy: A Female Text

Wright

2023

Qualitative Inquiry

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Adult literacy learners often survive on the periphery while holding burdens of invisible barriers. In this article, I explore the border between those in the mainstream and those seeking reintegration and community. Finding resonance with artography, I resist methodological enclosure just as the individuals I work with resist the boundaries that attempt to define them. Emboldened by critical arts-based research, I employ artography to examine my experiences as an adult literacy facilitator supporting formerly incarcerated women. Through metaphorical, poetic, and artful inquiry, I explore a border pedagogy, reaching for a shift in consciousness. Understanding borders as the barrier that separates formerly incarcerated learners from mainstream community, I have attempted a pulling of threads to unravel and then re-stitch an understanding (of) the lines that (no longer) blindly hem us in.

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In Pursuit of an ‘Ethos of Community’: Postdigital Education in the Age of Covid-19

Cited by 11 publications

References 30 publications

The Effects of COVID-19 on Early Childhood Education and Care: Research and Resources for Children, Families, Teachers, and Teacher Educators

The Effects of COVID-19 on Early Childhood Education and Care: Research and Resources for Children, Families, Teachers, and Teacher Educators

Surreal economics, fiscal stimulus, and the financialization of public health: Politics of the covid-19 narrative

Reintegration as Border Pedagogy: A Female Text

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