ABSTRACT
This duoethnography, informed by the new materialist turn, explores how educational work is materially reconfigured within university-community collaborations. Through our co-facilitation of two community-based Master of Education programs we, as White settlers, endeavoured to journey with Indigenous colleagues, community members, and students to respond to calls for transformative reconciliation. It is within these complex relational fields that we explore the shifting nature of our work as educators within a Canadian university. When educational work resides within community, it becomes a living relationship among people and place, requiring a new type of faculty expertise that disrupts the usual boundaries between disciplinary knowledge and the academic triad, and exceeds professional responsibilities. Through our MEd programs, we are coming to understand our work as educators as always a collaborative act in the making, and as a form of scholarly activism.
ABSTRACT
The government's rapid response to the spread of Covid-19 in British Columbia has resulted in drastic and unprecedented changes to the delivery of K-12 education. Using qualitative research methods, including remote in-depth interviews, this article addresses the question: What is the educational impact of the Covid-19 rapid response on teachers, students, and families in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada? Six themes are discussed, including teacher and family responses to change, vulnerability, transitions, work/home life balance, holistic teaching practices and communication. The article ends with recommendations relating to the communication and implementation of health, care, and educational practices that better attend to vulnerable populations and address social emotional wellness.
