Going Remote: Exploring the Intersections of Culturally Responsive and Digital Pedagogies During the COVID-19 Pandemic

• In Event: Teaching for Justice in Digital Landscapes

Abstract

This study examines how K-12 educators adapted their culturally responsive instructional practices during the shift to emergency remote learning precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. As such, this project lies at the confluence of online and culturally responsive frameworks, with significance for the productive merging of the two as a way to inform curriculum development, professional learning, and policy changes necessary to support K-12 teachers’ digital pedagogy. Data from this study provides insight into multiple factors that interfered with classroom teachers’ approaches to remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic such as navigating 1) an unstable sociopolitical context; 2) decisions made by school leadership; 3) technology infrastructure; and 4) students’ emerging health and wellness needs.

Authors

• Detra Price-Dennis, The Ohio State University
  Presenting Author

• Cami Touloukian, Teachers College, Columbia University
  Presenting Author

• Katie Harlan Eller, Teachers College, Columbia University
  Presenting Author

• Thomonique Moore, New York University
  Presenting Author

• Danning Fu
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