Afterword

Curry, Niall ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4471-6794 (2023) Afterword. In: Online pedagogy and the student experience: teaching applied linguistics and beyond. McGraw-Hill, Maidenhead, pp. 180-183. ISBN 9780335251889 (print); 9780335251896 (ebook)

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Abstract

Education, as both a field of research and practice, is in a perpetual state of development. Ever-governed by a combination of social, political, economic, and ecological factors, the challenges contemporary education poses both educators and researchers spark a need to understand how to work well within this evolving system. As this book prefaces, the COVID-19 pandemic was one such challenge that played a critical role in spurring on the evolution of online pedagogies. Social requirements to distance during the COVID-19 pandemic, political obligations to follow lockdown protocols, economic responsibilities to deliver quality education for students at a distance, and a need for a deeper understanding of teachers’ and students’ learning ecologies epitomise pandemic and crisis pedagogies.