Learning through Covid-19: No picnic: rethinking care labour in a crisis | 6 May

Guest speaker – Dr Kate Bowles  (Chair – Alisa Percy)

Dr Kate Bowles is Associate Dean International in the Faculty of Law Humanities & Arts at the University of Wollongong, and a former head of UOW’s Educational Design team. She has been teaching online to students across locations since 1997.

In this talk, I want to offer some ways of thinking about what it means to be appreciated for caring in an international crisis that has displaced campus activity into our homes. Who is being asked to care differently, and how are we representing the care that is occurring? It’s timely to notice the ways in which higher education institutions are trying to imagine the educator working from home as living in a well-resourced space of self-improvement and productivity hacks. At the same time, the platforms we are using to deliver education as a package of content, assessable activities and grades have resulted in students seeing much less of the actual embodied labour of educational design, and the time-dispersed care work of pedagogy. How can we sustain or hope to moderate these levels of care, as the structural crisis of labour in higher education intensifies?

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