Teaching And Learning In A Time Of Corona: A Social Work Experience

Abstract

Preliminary results of a qualitative study of the lived experience of teaching and learning during the Covid-19 pandemic are presented. An instructor, a program director and five doctoral students in different stages of their coursework and dissertation proposal development, wrote a reflective journal. Participants varied in their levels of familiarity with technology-assisted education, personal backgrounds and circumstances including work, family and caring for sick relatives responsibilities. Participants’ journals documenting their reactions, struggles and coping since the abrupt move of the university from face to face to online classes were content analyzed. The analysis was co-conducted by all participants to identify themes and generate understanding of the experience. Two main themes emerged from the analysis: A developmental process of participants’ reactions, perceptions and meaning making of the experience and factors that shaped it. Lessons learned are discussed and recommendations for professional education and directions for future research are suggested.

Real-Time Lived Experience of Social Work Students in Their Field Training during the Coronavirus Crisis: Insights from Photovoice-Based Research

“… Dekel and Baum, 2010 ), new challenges have been added. These include theoretical learning and practical training based on distance learning; the demand for rapid adaptation to new paradigms; the acquisition of new knowledge using technological means and online working methods and personal and professional conduct under high levels of uncertainty ( Berger, 2020 ; Farkas and Romaniuk, 2020 ; Morris et al , 2020 ; Papouli et al , 2020 ).…”