Responsible Pedagogy During a Pandemic: Teaching Social Work Courses on Interpersonal Violence During COVID-19

Abstract

Teaching courses that contain potentially high-emotional impact such as interpersonal violence (IV), have been noted as challenging. This is exacerbated during a pandemic when rates of IV are on the rise and requirements for physical distancing result in many courses being taught online. Although scholars have identified inherent challenges to teaching IV content online, additional considerations and necessary precautions in terms of student physical and emotional safety have not been adequately examined. Nor has the issue of instructor burden during the isolating restrictions of a pandemic been addressed. In this article, three Canadian social work scholars reconsider the challenges of online teaching environments involving IV course content and provide recommendations with an emphasis on risks related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Perceptions of pre-service teachers on breakout room micro-teaching with Zoom

“…When examining relationship building, the participant responses in this study reflect the findings in the literature, i.e. relationship building is vital to successful online education experiences (Jenney, Straka & Walsh, 2021). These results confirm the importance ITE programmes should place on building positive instructor-student and student-student relationships within an online course.…”