期刊名称:Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice
印刷版ISSN:2164-0246
出版年度:2021
卷号:24
期号:2
页码:43-61
语种:English
出版社:Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice
摘要:In this COVID-era study, Catholic school teachers report the challenges that they experienced in supporting classroom communities during remote instruction, as well as the strategies that they enacted to address such challenges and make robust relationships with and among remote students. While teachers engaged in remote teaching, they were also studying in a Catholic Master of Arts in Teaching program, where they participated in weekly Freirian culture circles – structured dialogues designed to help teachers identify problems of equity and collectively devise appropriate responses. The teachers found that classroom community was hindered by a lack of in-person affordances, socioemotional stressors related to the pandemic, struggles to engage students, and structures of hybrid teaching. In response, teachers used the culture circles to create and/or share strategies for supporting remote classroom communities, such as, classroom meetings and small-group collaboration. Teachers recognized that efforts developing classroom communities were intimately connected to commitments to equity.