Publication details
Výzva nebo nemožná mise? Tranzice k online výuce v době pandemie covid-19 očima vysokoškolských učitelů.
| Title in English | Challenge or mission impossible? The transition to online teaching during covid-19 pandemic through the eyes of university teachers. |
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Studia paedagogica |
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| Citation | |
| Web | https://www.phil.muni.cz/journals/index.php/studia-paedagogica/article/view/2409 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/SP2021-3-3 |
| Keywords | higher education; digital technologies; distance education; covid-19; teachers´ approaches to teaching |
| Description | In this study, we address the research problem of transition from face-to-face to distance teaching in a university setting during the Covid-19 pandemic. We are based on an analysis of 34 in-depth semi-structured interviews with teachers of the Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University, in which these teachers reflected on their approaches to distance online teaching during the Covid 19 pandemic. We show that the way the teachers approached the teaching is strongly linked with their conception of teachinf and the way how they construct the concept of good higher education. According to the analysis of the interviews, we distinguish two polar types of teachers. The first type are functionalists, who focus on passing on knowledge and skills to students. In times of pandemic, using judicious pedagogical analysis, they strive to best replace the various components of face-to-face teaching with digital tools and applications. They believe that the quality online teaching is challenging, but feasible and potentially bringing new quality to higher education. The second type identified are authenticators who understand the teaching as a creation of knowledge and skills in the process of authentic communication between teacher and students. These teachers believe that online tools do not make it possible to adequately substitute face-to face class and perceive the transition to distance learning as a major threat to quality and to the mission of higher education in general. |
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