Pandemic

Abstract

COVID-19 transformed everyday life for millions of people globally in a remarkably short period of time. The social, economic and political effects of this pandemic are still uncertain, but as historians and teachers, we are faced with responding to this situation in our classrooms and with our students. This chapter explores how history teaching can provide a space to respond to pandemic for and with our students. It reflects on the new conditions of teaching during a pandemic, how history courses might address key questions raised by these conditions and online teaching as a site where such emotional-intellectual labour might be performed. Drawing on the concept of a pedagogy of vulnerability, it suggests that such teaching requires a mutual openness to conditions of uncertainty.