There were several articles about Covid implications - followed by ET 2.1 that focused on The global pandemic.
- Rita Chowdhury suggested it is a time to ask - "What kind of world do we want?"
- Colm Regan considered the implications for development education - and questions the notion "we're all in this together".
- Lucy Kirkham reflected on "lock-down learning".
- Dorit Braun made the case for talking about Covid 19 – using photographs as a stimulus.
- Elif Shafak's book 'How to stay sane in an age of division' provided a stimulus to several activities – including a Zoom conversation about 'Post-Pandemic Challenges'.
Perhaps more than ever the Covid experience made it clear that uncertainty is a constant: the only thing that is certain is that there will be uncertainty.
The experience highlighted that our interconnectedness with the rest of the world is beyond dispute.
- How should we help young people think about the pandemic, talk about it, express feelings about it, make some sense of it?
- How do we enable and encourage learners to have some optimism about their futures in a time of uncertainty?
- How, at a time when we have become more isolated, do we enable learners to be outward looking and engage with experiences of the pandemic in other parts of the world?
ET magazine 2.1 The Global Pandemic considers three questions:
- What can we learn from studying the course of past pandemics?
- Can we facilitate discussions about 'Vaccines - as a Global Matter?
- What would we like our post-Covid world to look like?
Written by Dorit Braun, Darius Jackson, Jeff Serf & Scott Sinclair it includes articles on:
- Implications
- Let's talk about Covid-19
- Vaccines - a global issue
- Black Death in 1348 ... & Covid-19 now
- Hamnet - the journey of a flea
- Vaccines ... discovered ... and feared
- Pandemics ... an historical context
