Chapter in Edited Volume

This book chapter is part of Digital Displacement: Re-inventing Embodied Practice Online During the Covid-19 Pandemic, published by Palgrave, and edited by leading global applied drama and theatre scholars: Erika Piazzoli, Rachael Jacobs, and Garret Scally. Here, I offer a reflexive practitioner analysis of pedagogical dilemmas that arose during my online teaching during the spring of 2021. I critically consider my pedagogical missteps and dilemmas. Then, I reconceptualize my jiggly Jell-O assemblage of memory through Shawn Ginwright’s healing-centered framework to bring more awareness, connection, vision, and presence back into my pedagogical practice.

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DIGITAL DISPLACEMENT

EDITED BY: ERIKA PIAZZOLI, RACHAEL JACOBS, AND GARRET SCALLY

This book conceptualises the novel notion of “digital displacement”: the sudden pivoting to online technology in education caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The book documents this historical phenomenon in education and discusses the consequences for educator practice and educational strategies, in particular arts-based educators. Its content and scope cover both practice-based and academic frameworks, offering a scholarly investigation of the effect of the pandemic on embodied work, including drama, music, voice, dance and film, through a series of seven case studies. The book also examines embodied online practice with a view to how COVID-19 has changed this in the long term.