ERIC Number: EJ1360430
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 14
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(Dis)Connected: Establishing Social Presence and Intimacy in Teacher-Student Relationships during Emergency Remote Learning
AERA Open, v8 n1 Jan-Dec 2022
In the effort to "flatten the curve" of the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers were required to adapt their curricula, pedagogy, and relationships with their students to remote learning structures. Using data gathered through an online qualitative survey of over 800 Chicago teachers in July 2020, this article will examine the ways that the shift to remote learning challenged teachers' relationships with their students during the spring of 2020. By utilizing social presence theory and considering the significance of emotional connection in teacher-student relationships, the study captures some of the relational challenges that teachers experienced during the initial months of remote instruction. The study identifies increased individualization, deeper holistic understandings of students, and a diversity of mechanisms of engagement as pedagogical techniques that allowed teachers to maintain and even improve their relationships with students.
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Intimacy, Distance Education, Electronic Learning, Emergency Programs, COVID-19, Pandemics, Psychological Patterns, Individualized Instruction, Holistic Approach, Learner Engagement, Web Based Instruction, Teacher Attitudes
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
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Identifiers - Location: Illinois (Chicago)
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