Emergency Remote Education and Trauma-Informed Pedagogy
1. Emergency Remote Education
and Trauma-Informed Pedagogy
Aras Bozkurt, PhD
Anadolu University, Turkey
GO-GN ‘Crisis & Care’ GASTA Session
ALT'S SUMMER SUMMIT 2020
26 August 2020
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[1]: Emergency remote teaching in a time of global crisis due to CoronaVirus pandemic
What happened
when the Coronavirus (Covid19) hit the globe?
caused trauma, psychological pressure, and anxiety [1]
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History repeats itself! And it repeated again…
We did the same mistakes...
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In fact, as we started to wear masks, we have seen the real
face of education: Unmasked and cruel.....
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We did care about education…
Did we care about learners?
Did we care how they felt during the Covid-19 crisis?
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Lessons learned during the Covid19 crisis and from
emergency remote education
What works best?
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[2]: Emergency remote teaching in a time of global crisis due to CoronaVirus pandemic
“As a matter of fact, what we teach in these times can have
secondary importance.
We have to keep in mind that students will remember not the
educational content delivered, but how they felt during these
hard times.
With an empathetic approach, the story will not center on
how to successfully deliver educational content, but it will be on
how learners narrate these times” [2]
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[3]: SAMHSA’s Concept of Trauma and Guidance for a Trauma-Informed Approach.
“an event, series of events, or set of circumstances that is
experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful
or threatening and that has lasting adverse effects on the in-
dividual’s functioning and physical, social, emotional, or spiritual
well-being.”
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Everyday life is, in fact, a trauma for many learners
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Consider yourself;
● as a learner affected from Covid19 crisis,
● As a refugee
● As a minority
● As an LGBTQ
● As a learner that doesn’t fit (so-called ideal) educational system
● As an individual in economic crisis
● As a person at the margins
● As an individual who is not understood by society
You could be / can be one of them… Act now!
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We must...
● Welcome
● Listen
● Value
● Share the burden