ABSTRACT
The shift to distance learning has created unique perspectives and challenges to educational stakeholders specifically among teachers who are tasked with keeping teaching and learning on track despite their professional, technical, and personal concerns, and inadequate familiarity to the new learning modality. While these realities have been challenging the capability of teachers, they also open the doors for opportunities of levelling up to a new education landscape and harnessing potentials which may be useful for the furtherance of the teaching practices. The present qualitative study aims to document Science teachers’ perspectives, challenges and opportunities in the teaching of Science courses during the pandemic. It consists of the various insights, initiatives, coping strategies and actions, and opportunities of eight Filipino Science teachers towards securing a responsive and efficient learning management in the midst of the unforeseen challenges in the education sector brought by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. © 2022, North American Business Press. All rights reserved.
ABSTRACT
Humor is no cure for COVID-19, does feed the hungry, nor can pay the bills of the jobless. Many do not approve of humor out of crisis, yet millions of people have come up with COVID-19 related humor scripts on social medial platforms if only to soften grief, lighten mood, and distract people from the struggle in accepting the new normal. Humor is also used as coping mechanism for the bad scenario experienced by many. Everybody tends to laugh at those they love and hate, and many times they joke about the good and bad fortunes of people. The present quantitative-qualitative study documents and categorizes the 214 humor scripts (equal distribution of Tagalog and English humor scripts) that were produced and circulated in social media platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic. The collected humor scripts were coded according to humor types (i.e., aggressive, national/ethnic, positive, self-deprecating, sexual, sexist), humor targets, humor subjects and humor structure (i.e., conversational, narrative, one-liner, question and answer, verse/lyrical). Humor targets and subjects exclusive to Tagalog and English humor scripts were also discussed. © 2020 Asian E F L Journal Press. All rights reserved.