pandemic transformed pedagogy
When the WHO Director-General declared SARS-CoV-19, commonly known as COVID-19, a pandemic (WHO, 2020), K-12 school systems worldwide responded with an almost immediate suspension of in-class instruction. In British Columbia, Canada, the Minister of Education directed all schools to immediately suspend in-class instruction (Fleming, 2020), forcing over 500,000 students and 44,000 teachers to shift to emergency remote teaching (ERT; Hyslop, 2020a; Hyslop, 2020b). ERT involves a “temporary shift of instructional delivery to an alternate delivery format due to crisis circumstances” (Hodges et al., 2020). Teaching in online, blended or hybrid learning modalities requires a significant reimagining and re-design of the pedagogy educators use (Jonassen, 2006; Kanuka, 2006). As a result, the shift to ERT necessarily impacts the curricula and content educators teach and requires a change in actions, judgments, and selection of teaching strategies (Jonassen & Land, 2014), leaving many practicing classroom teachers unprepared.
Technology education has its roots in design – creating, making and doing aspects of human activity (Archer, 1979). Often overheard in technology education classes is the “head, heart and hands model” of transformative learning (Orr, 1992; Singleton, 2015). The head, heart and hands model is a holistic approach to developing a transformative experience of learning that relates the cognitive domain (head) to critical reflection, the affective domain (heart) to relational knowing, and the psychomotor domain (hands) to engagement (Singleton, 2015). Technology education and ‘designerly ways of knowing’ is a distinct epistemology separate from scientific and scholarly understandings that helps individuals develop constructive thinking, iconic three-dimensional models of cognition, and a wide range of non-verbal thought and communication skills (Cross, 1982). In the context of this research, TE focuses on developing designerly ways of knowing related to both digital and physical technologies.
The Pandemic Transformed Pedagogy Project (PTP; alivelab.ca) began by capturing the needs of technology education (TE) teachers in British Columbia, Canada, during the pandemic. Our project’s overall aim is to find ways to empower technology educators with evidence-based learning designs that they can use with their students that are both flexible in their delivery modality yet meet prescribed learning outcomes (Code et al., 2020; Forde et al., 2020). The PTP has evolved into a study to understand why the pandemic declaration and the switch to ERT was a particularly ‘disorienting dilemma’ for technology educators.
How has the switch to ERT affected the pedagogy of TE teachers?
How has the switch to ERT affected TE teachers’ interactions with students?
Has the pandemic and forced switch to ERT represent a disorienting dilemma for TE teachers?
Research Team
Jillianne Code, PhD
Rachel Ralph, PhD
Kieran Forde, PhD Candidate
Rachel Moylan
Publications
2023
Code, J; Moylan, R; Forde, K; Ralph, R
Teachers’ sense of efficacy during a time of crisis Journal Article
In: Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, vol. 23, pp. 538-558, 2023.
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year = {2023},
date = {2023-12-06},
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abstract = {Technology education (TE) has the creating, making, and doing aspects of human activity at its foundation. This article presents a comparison of the teaching sense of efficacy (TSE) of practising TE teachers and teacher candidates (TC) during a forced switch to emergency remote teaching (ERT). In phase 1, the switch to ERT had a significantly negative effect on TE teachers (N = 42; r = −0.60). In phase 2, TE TCs (N = 16) were similarly affected (r = −0.53). Results of a two-way mixed ANOVA in phase 3 suggest that ERT had a greater negative impact on practising TE teachers’ TSE for student engagement (partial eta squared = 0.11) and classroom management (partial eta squared = 0.19) than it did on TE TCs’ TSE. As novice teachers tend to draw more from contextual factors than mastery experiences, this research suggests that experienced teachers were at a greater loss due to the pandemic than TCs.},
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Code, J.; Forde, K.; Moylan, R.; Ralph, R.
Head, heart and hands: A multilevel mixed methods study Proceedings Article
In: 2023.
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Code, J; Forde, K; Moylan, R; Ralph, R
The impact of pandemic transformed pedagogy on technology educators: A mixed methods study Proceedings Article
In: American Educational Research Association Annual Conference 2023.
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2022
Code, J; Ralph, R; Forde, K
A disorienting dilemma: Teaching and learning in technology education during a time of crisis Journal Article
In: Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, vol. 22, pp. 170–189, 2022.
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date = {2022-02-25},
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abstract = {The way individuals interpret and reinterpret their experience is central to meaning-making and to teaching learning. Grounded in Mezirow’s Transformative Learning Theory, this research explores whether pandemic-related emergency remote teaching manifested in a disorienting dilemma for technology educators. Educators negotiated curricular outcomes between physical aspects of making and doing and design and creative problem solving resulting in a pandemic transformed pedagogy. Thematic analysis revealed that making and doing was severely challenged due to decreased communication, student motivation and engagement. However, most concerning to educators was the heightened disparity in equity and access in their most vulnerable and at-risk students.
Titre :
Un dilemme déstabilisant : Enseigner et apprendre dans la formation en technologie en
période de crise
Résumé :
La manière dont les individus interprètent et renouvellent le sens de leur expérience est fondamentale au processus de recherche de significations et cela a des incidences sur l’enseignement et l’apprentissage. Ancrée dans la théorie de l’apprentissage transformationnel de Mezirow, cette étude vise à déterminer si l’enseignement à distance en tant que mesure d’urgence liée à la pandémie a causé un « dilemme déstabilisant » pour les formateurs en technologie. Les enseignants ont négocié des résultats d’apprentissage situés entre certains aspects physiques du « faire et mettre en pratique » et ont adopté une approche créative dans la résolution de problèmes par réflexion conceptuelle, ce qui a donné lieu à une pédagogie transformée par la pandémie. L’analyse thématique a démontré que le « faire et mettre en pratique » a été grandement éprouvé par la diminution dans les communications, la baisse de motivation des étudiants ainsi que de leur engagement. Toutefois, le plus inquiétant pour les enseignants, c’est la disparité grandissante en ce qui a trait aux questions d’équité et d’accès qui touchent leurs étudiants les plus vulnérables et les plus à risque. L’on connait bien peu de choses sur les conséquences d’une façon d’être qui est chaotique sur les apprenants et les enseignants évoluant dans des conditions qui favorisent la peur et le traumatisme. Bien que nous ne puissions pas prédire en quoi consistera la « nouvelle normalité » dans les écoles ni quels seront les effets à long terme de l’enseignement à distance comme mesure d’urgence, notre étude montre que le dilemme déstabilisant que la COVID-19 nous apporte continuera de façonner la pédagogie transformée par la pandémie pour les formateurs en technologie.},
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Titre :
Un dilemme déstabilisant : Enseigner et apprendre dans la formation en technologie en
période de crise
Résumé :
La manière dont les individus interprètent et renouvellent le sens de leur expérience est fondamentale au processus de recherche de significations et cela a des incidences sur l’enseignement et l’apprentissage. Ancrée dans la théorie de l’apprentissage transformationnel de Mezirow, cette étude vise à déterminer si l’enseignement à distance en tant que mesure d’urgence liée à la pandémie a causé un « dilemme déstabilisant » pour les formateurs en technologie. Les enseignants ont négocié des résultats d’apprentissage situés entre certains aspects physiques du « faire et mettre en pratique » et ont adopté une approche créative dans la résolution de problèmes par réflexion conceptuelle, ce qui a donné lieu à une pédagogie transformée par la pandémie. L’analyse thématique a démontré que le « faire et mettre en pratique » a été grandement éprouvé par la diminution dans les communications, la baisse de motivation des étudiants ainsi que de leur engagement. Toutefois, le plus inquiétant pour les enseignants, c’est la disparité grandissante en ce qui a trait aux questions d’équité et d’accès qui touchent leurs étudiants les plus vulnérables et les plus à risque. L’on connait bien peu de choses sur les conséquences d’une façon d’être qui est chaotique sur les apprenants et les enseignants évoluant dans des conditions qui favorisent la peur et le traumatisme. Bien que nous ne puissions pas prédire en quoi consistera la « nouvelle normalité » dans les écoles ni quels seront les effets à long terme de l’enseignement à distance comme mesure d’urgence, notre étude montre que le dilemme déstabilisant que la COVID-19 nous apporte continuera de façonner la pédagogie transformée par la pandémie pour les formateurs en technologie.
Code, J; Ralph, R; Forde, K
A disorienting dilemma: Teaching and learning in technology education during a time of crisis Journal Article
In: Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2022.
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date = {2022-01-21},
urldate = {2022-01-21},
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2020
Code, J; Ralph, R; Forde, K
Pandemic designs for the future: Perspectives of technology education teachers during COVID-19 Journal Article
In: Information and Learning Sciences, vol. 121, no. 5/6, pp. 419-431, 2020.
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title = {Pandemic designs for the future: Perspectives of technology education teachers during COVID-19},
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url = {https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/ILS-04-2020-0112/full/pdf?title=pandemic-designs-for-the-future-perspectives-of-technology-education-teachers-during-covid-19},
doi = {10.1108/ILS-04-2020-0112},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-07-08},
urldate = {2020-07-08},
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publisher = {Emerald Publishing Limited},
abstract = {Purpose
The disruption caused by the pandemic declaration and subsequent public health measures put in place have had a substantial effect on teachers’ abilities to support student engagement in technology education (TE). The purpose of this paper is to explore the following research question: How do TE teachers see emergency remote teaching (ERT) transitions to blended learning into the next academic year affecting their profession?
Design/methodology/approach A snowball and convenience sampling design was used to recruit specialist teachers in TE through their professional organization and were asked to respond to the question: What are your concerns about the future of teaching TE remotely? The qualitative data collected from the participants (N = 42) was analyzed thematically (Braun and Clarke, 2006).
Findings
The analysis revealed that the switch to ERT impacted the teachers’ ability to support hands-on competency development owing to inequitable student access to tools, materials and resources, all of which affected student motivation and engagement. As a result, teachers raised questions about the overall effectiveness of online learning approaches and TE’s future and sustainability if offered completely online.
Originality/value
This research is the first of its kind exploring the experiences of TE teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic. In answer to the challenges identified by teachers, the authors offer a blended learning design framework informed by pandemic transformed pedagogy that can serve as a model for educators to use when designing blended instruction.},
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pubstate = {published},
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The disruption caused by the pandemic declaration and subsequent public health measures put in place have had a substantial effect on teachers’ abilities to support student engagement in technology education (TE). The purpose of this paper is to explore the following research question: How do TE teachers see emergency remote teaching (ERT) transitions to blended learning into the next academic year affecting their profession?
Design/methodology/approach A snowball and convenience sampling design was used to recruit specialist teachers in TE through their professional organization and were asked to respond to the question: What are your concerns about the future of teaching TE remotely? The qualitative data collected from the participants (N = 42) was analyzed thematically (Braun and Clarke, 2006).
Findings
The analysis revealed that the switch to ERT impacted the teachers’ ability to support hands-on competency development owing to inequitable student access to tools, materials and resources, all of which affected student motivation and engagement. As a result, teachers raised questions about the overall effectiveness of online learning approaches and TE’s future and sustainability if offered completely online.
Originality/value
This research is the first of its kind exploring the experiences of TE teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic. In answer to the challenges identified by teachers, the authors offer a blended learning design framework informed by pandemic transformed pedagogy that can serve as a model for educators to use when designing blended instruction.