Title: In a Queer Time and Space: A Teacher’s Narrative on Online Distance Learning
Stream: Teaching Experiences, Pedagogy, Practice & Praxis
Presentation Type: Live-Stream Presentation
Authors:
Jenno Roquero, De La Salle University, Philippines
Abstract:
The swift transition from face-to-face classes to online distance learning (ODL) brought about by COVID-19 has confronted educational systems of teaching-learning quality, technological adaptability, and more so, inclusivity. This paper is an auto-critical essay that presents what life has been like in the first two years of online distance learning as a queer teacher in a Catholic institution dealing with queer students in a queer time (pandemic) and space (Google Meet). This paper seeks to unmask different untold realities in an ODL classroom in dealing with issues of queerness and (homo)sexuality. This paper also posits that online distance learning is queer. Queer as an adjective, the expression of an oddity, not normal. But this can also be interpreted as the right time and space to put ‘Queer’ as a noun on the pedestal, to generate dialogue, and transform the very reality of cis-hetero patriarchal norms. This paper is greatly informed and inspired by Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed in its attempt to map out how schools could be and should be a safe space for LGBTQIA+ students gearing toward a more gender-inclusive classroom and curriculum, especially in the basic education sectors.
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