Reimagining the new pedagogical possibilities for universities post-Covid-19: an EPAT collective project

Michael A. Peters, Fazal Rizvi, Gary McCulloch, Paul Gibbs, Radhika Gorur, Moon Suk Hong, Yoonjung Hwang, Lew Zipin, Marie Brennan, Susan Robertson, John Quay, Danilo Taglietti, Ronald Barnett, Wang Chengbing, Marianna Papastephanou, Peter McLaren, Rima D. Apple, Nicholas C. Burbules, Pankaj Jalote, Aslam FataarJames Conroy, Gert Biesta, Greg Misiaszek, Suzanne S. Choo, Petar Jandrić, Lynda Stone, Michael W. Apple, Robert J. Tierney, Marek Tesar, Tina Besley, Lauren Misiaszek

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Abstract

Our minds are still racing back and forth, longing for a return to ‘normality’, trying to stitch our future to our past and refusing to acknowledge the rupture. But the rupture exists. And in the midst of this terrible despair, it offers us a chance to rethink the doomsday machine we have built for ourselves. Nothing could be worse than a return to normality. Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)717-760
Number of pages44
JournalEducational Philosophy and Theory
Volume54
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes

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