Responding to pandemic-centered nihilism with democratic renewal and restoration in teacher education
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-2023
Abstract
We are two tenure-track, but untenured teacher educators in the United States. We teach in the Midwest and Southwest. We have both taught in universities for more than 5 years. During the COVID-19 outbreak in the spring of 2020, school buildings and college campuses all over the county closed to prevent the spread of illness. As we worked through planning, redesigning, and revising courses we considered our teacher educator knowledge and expertise. During the movements between instructional modalities, we read and re-read John Dewey’s (1938) monograph "Experience and Education" (EE) together to organize our thinking. As we moved through shifting phases of our work, our purposes in reading have evolved with our changing contexts. We realized that going back to go forward again, which was Dewey’s (1938) view of history, does not always mean going very far back after all. We can use what teacher candidates have learned so far about teaching in troubled times to draw them through the rest of their preparation.
Recommended Citation
Rice, M. F. & Diacopoulos, M. (2023). Responding to Pandemic-Centered Nihilism With Democratic Renewal and Restoration in Teacher Education. In A. Cameron-Standerford, B. Bergh, & C. Edge (Eds.), Pausing at the Threshold. Equity Press. https://equitypress.org/pausing_at_the_thres/xCqLPgwq
