The odd one is Out: Voices from virtual classrooms

Title

The odd one is Out: Voices from virtual classrooms

Creator

Cherian R.

Description

This article is a response to the online classrooms initiated from April 2020 onwards in schools across the country after the declaration of the lockdown. As classes went live in some parts of the country and several schools prepped towards the new medium, voices and experiences emerged from the field to throw light on the odds. The article collects the voices of students, educators and parents largely from the cities of Delhi and Bengaluru. The narratives are to be seen against the background of the critique of auto-modernism and emergent technology-intensive social institutions in the wake of COVID-19. This perspective pieces together the issues of infrastructure inadequacy in technology and the exclusiveness of pedagogy, and charts the inability of the marginalised sections in exercising the fundamental right to education. This article also highlights that internet classrooms are temporary make-shift arrangements. 2021 Economic and Political Weekly. All rights reserved.

Source

Economic and Political Weekly, Vol-56, No. 13

Date

2021-01-01

Publisher

Economic and Political Weekly

Coverage

Cherian R., Department of Social Work, Christ University, Bengaluru, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISSN: 129976

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Review

Identifier

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