<p>This article introduces a professional development webinar series entitled “Teaching in Times of Crisis: Learning from Educators Around the World”. This is a unique model for teacher professional development and peer-to-peer-learning among teachers around the globe. By positioning teachers predominantly from the Global South as experts, this series sought to equip American teachers with strategies, tools and techniques for teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic, flipping the traditional development narrative that positions voices from the Global North as experts needed in the Global South. The authors’ analysis of the webinar series through the lens of critical global learning, however, shows two contradictory outcomes. On the one hand, participants who attended the series helped build a sense of global solidarity among teachers during a particularly difficult time. On the other hand, the webinar series reinforced neocolonial narratives of pity, poverty and helplessness in the Global South. The authors argue that cultivating global solidarity and knowledge sharing among teachers can be a meaningful avenue for providing teacher support and professional development for educators working in emergency settings across the Global North and South, but it must be done in ways that attend to and make visible colonial logics and the complex and unequal power relations around the world.</p>

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Teacher professional development during a global pandemic: A critical analysis of global learning through a peer-to-peer learning programme

  • Elisheva Cohen,
  • Maurice Sikenyi

摘要

This article introduces a professional development webinar series entitled “Teaching in Times of Crisis: Learning from Educators Around the World”. This is a unique model for teacher professional development and peer-to-peer-learning among teachers around the globe. By positioning teachers predominantly from the Global South as experts, this series sought to equip American teachers with strategies, tools and techniques for teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic, flipping the traditional development narrative that positions voices from the Global North as experts needed in the Global South. The authors’ analysis of the webinar series through the lens of critical global learning, however, shows two contradictory outcomes. On the one hand, participants who attended the series helped build a sense of global solidarity among teachers during a particularly difficult time. On the other hand, the webinar series reinforced neocolonial narratives of pity, poverty and helplessness in the Global South. The authors argue that cultivating global solidarity and knowledge sharing among teachers can be a meaningful avenue for providing teacher support and professional development for educators working in emergency settings across the Global North and South, but it must be done in ways that attend to and make visible colonial logics and the complex and unequal power relations around the world.