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Adapting to the culture of ânew normalâ: an emerging response to COVID-19
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Jeff Clyde G Corpuz, Adapting to the culture of ânew normalâ: an emerging response to COVID-19, Journal of Public Health , Volume 43, Issue 2, June 2021, Pages e344âe345, https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdab057
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A year after COVID-19 pandemic has emerged, we have suddenly been forced to adapt to the ânew normalâ: work-from-home setting, parents home-schooling their children in a new blended learning setting, lockdown and quarantine, and the mandatory wearing of face mask and face shields in public. For many, 2020 has already been earmarked as âthe worstâ year in the 21st century. Ripples from the current situation have spread into the personal, social, economic and spiritual spheres. Is this new normal really new or is it a reiteration of the old? A recent correspondence published in this journal rightly pointed out the involvement of a âsupportiveâ government, âcreativeâ church and an âadaptiveâ public in the so-called culture. However, I argue that adapting to the ânew normalâ can greatly affect the future. I would carefully suggest that we examine the context and the location of culture in which adaptations are needed.
To live in the world is to adapt constantly. A year after COVID-19 pandemic has emerged, we have suddenly been forced to adapt to the ânew normalâ: work-from-home setting, parents home-schooling their children in a new blended learning setting, lockdown and quarantine, and the mandatory wearing of face mask and face shields in public. For many, 2020 has already been earmarked as âthe worstâ year in the 21st century. 1 Ripples from the current situation have spread into the personal, social, economic and spiritual spheres. Is this new normal really new or is it a reiteration of the old? A recent correspondence published in this journal rightly pointed out the involvement of a âsupportiveâ government, âcreativeâ church and an âadaptiveâ public in the so-called culture. 2 However, I argue that adapting to the ânew normalâ can greatly affect the future. I would carefully suggest that we examine the context and the location of culture in which adaptations are needed.
The term ânew normalâ first appeared during the 2008 financial crisis to refer to the dramatic economic, cultural and social transformations that caused precariousness and social unrest, impacting collective perceptions and individual lifestyles. 3 This term has been used again during the COVID-19 pandemic to point out how it has transformed essential aspects of human life. Cultural theorists argue that there is an interplay between culture and both personal feelings (powerlessness) and information consumption (conspiracy theories) during times of crisis. 4 Nonetheless, it is up to us to adapt to the challenges of current pandemic and similar crises, and whether we respond positively or negatively can greatly affect our personal and social lives. Indeed, there are many lessons we can learn from this crisis that can be used in building a better society. How we open to change will depend our capacity to adapt, to manage resilience in the face of adversity, flexibility and creativity without forcing us to make changes. As long as the world has not found a safe and effective vaccine, we may have to adjust to a new normal as people get back to work, school and a more normal life. As such, âwe have reached the end of the beginning. New conventions, rituals, images and narratives will no doubt emerge, so there will be more work for cultural sociology before we get to the beginning of the endâ. 5
Now, a year after COVID-19, we are starting to see a way to restore health, economies and societies together despite the new coronavirus strain. In the face of global crisis, we need to improvise, adapt and overcome. The new normal is still emerging, so I think that our immediate focus should be to tackle the complex problems that have emerged from the pandemic by highlighting resilience, recovery and restructuring (the new three Rs). The World Health Organization states that ârecognizing that the virus will be with us for a long time, governments should also use this opportunity to invest in health systems, which can benefit all populations beyond COVID-19, as well as prepare for future public health emergenciesâ. 6 There may be little to gain from the COVID-19 pandemic, but it is important that the public should keep in mind that no one is being left behind. When the COVID-19 pandemic is over, the best of our new normal will survive to enrich our lives and our work in the future.
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A Year After Coronavirus: An Inclusive âNew Normalâ
Six months into a new decade, 2020 has already been earmarked as âthe worstâ year in the 21st century. The novel coronavirus has given rise to a global pandemic that has destabilized most institutional settings. While we live in times when humankind possesses the most advanced science and technology, a virus invisible to the naked eye has massively disrupted economies, healthcare, and education systems worldwide. This should serve as a reminder that as we keep making progress in science and research, humanity will continue to face challenges in the future, and it is upon us to prioritize those issues that are most relevant in the 21st century.
Even amidst the pandemic, Space X, an American aerospace manufacturer, managed to become the first private company to send humans to space. While this is a tremendous achievement and prepares humanity for a sustainable future, I feel there is a need to introspect the challenges that we are already facing. On the one hand, we seem to be preparing beyond the 21st century. On the other hand, heightened nationalism, increasing violence against marginalized communities and multidimensional inequalities across all sectors continue to act as barriers to growth for most individuals across the globe. COVID-19 has reinforced these multifaceted economic, social and cultural inequalities wherein those in situations of vulnerability have found it increasingly difficult to get quality medical attention, access to quality education, and have witnessed increased domestic violence while being confined to their homes.
Given the coronavirusâs current situation, some households have also had time to introspect on gender roles and stereotypes. For instance, women are expected to carry out unpaid care work like cooking, cleaning, and looking after the family. There is no valid reason to believe that women ought to carry out these activities, and men have no role in contributing to household chores. With men having shared household chores during the lockdown period, it gives hope that they will realize the burden that women have been bearing for past decades and will continue sharing responsibilities. However, it would be naĂŻve to believe that gender discrimination could be tackled so easily, and men would give up on their decades' old habits within a couple of months. Thus, during and after the pandemic, there is an urgent need to sensitize households on the importance of gender equality and social cohesion.
Moving forward, developing quality healthcare systems that are affordable and accessible to all should be the primary objective for all governments. This can be done by increasing expenditure towards health and education and simultaneously reducing expenditure on defence equipment where the latter mainly gives rise to an idea that countries need to be prepared for violence. There is substantial evidence that increased investment in health and education is beneficial in the long-term and can potentially build the basic foundation of a country.
If it can be established that usage of nuclear weapons, violence and war are not solutions to any problem, governments (like, for example, Costa Rica) could move towards disarmament of weapons and do their part in building a more peaceful planet that is sustainable for the future. This would further promote global citizenship wherein nationality, race, gender, caste, and other categories, are just mere variables and they do not become identities of individuals that restrict their thought process. The aim should be to build responsible citizens who play an active role in their society and work collectively in helping develop a planet that is well-governed, inclusive, and environmentally sustainable.
âA year after Coronavirusâ is still an unknown, so I think that our immediate focus should be to tackle the complex problems that have emerged from the pandemic so that we make the year after coronavirus one which highlights recovery and acts as a pathway to fresh beginnings. While there is little to gain from such a fatal cause, it is vital that we also use it to make the ânew normalâ in favour of the environment and ensure that no one is left behind.
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Embracing a new normal in ourselves and communities
COVID-19 restrictions have gone on long enough to establish new habits. So what do we want to keep doing and stop doing, both individually and as a community?
By Associate Professor Terry Bowles, University of Melbourne
As COVID-19 restrictions are gradually lifted across Australia and we emerge from months of isolation, itâs important to note that we have passed the threshold of time required to establish new habits .
Research shows that it takes between 30 and 60 days to establish a new habit or to stop a bad habit, intentionally or coincidentally. That means the things we have been doing, that we didnât do before, will be easy to keep doing, if they are good for us.
Similarly, if we started or expanded on unhelpful or unhealthy behaviours while in isolation it will be hard to revert back to pre-isolation levels, though the feeling that we are entering a new normal may for some make it easier to break any negative habits we may have fallen into.
We have the opportunity then to look back before we look forward and ask some important questions around improving health and wellbeing for ourselves and those around us:
The world is a classroom
- What am I now doing that I want to continue doing?
- What do I want to stop doing that Iâve now started doing?
- What behaviours that I did before isolation, that I stopped, do I want to not take up again?
- What new behaviours, that Iâve never done before, do I now want to begin?
The COVID-19 experience will have taught people different things, but for almost all of us it has shown than we can quickly change our daily routines.
Some of us slept more, watched more TV, played more games or engaged more on social media; some cooked more, engaged more with those they live with, found creative ways to exercise and work from home, spent less time in cars, and maybe drank less alcohol or drank more.
What this means is that the experience has allowed us to take two big ideas into the rest of our lives:
- As a society we have the capacity to listen to expert advice and change remarkably rapidly
- As individuals we can listen to expert advice and change parts of our lives remarkably quickly, sometimes for good but also sometimes for bad
Managing your family's cabin fever
If we consider what life was like before COVID-19 and compare that with our experience during isolation, we can start to re-inhabit our possible new lives and new selves.
With a little bit of reflection, planning and action we can come out of the COVID-19 experience with a more adaptive mindset. This will help us to buffer the shock of new challenges and increase our sense of control over our lives, and allow us to directly focus on lifeâs opportunities and possibilities.
The key task now, regardless of our initial reactions to the restored freedoms after isolation, is to curb impulsive action and make a benefit of the experience by carefully developing new positive habits .
For many people this wonât be easy, especially for those who have lost work, income, livelihoods, stability and especially those who have lost loved ones. For many, the experience of COVID-19 is coupled with profound grief .
People in this situation may not have the necessary resources to generate a âpositive bumpâ from the easing of restrictions as others will. They may need support from family and friends, their community and government.
Sometimes we need to rest a while with sadness and grief and eventually its impact subsides or prompts us to seek professional help in managing our negative emotions, thoughts and behaviours. Eventually, a new outlook on life and new actions can emerge.
How do we teach students about their wellbeing online?
The point is not to get stuck but to keep working through, towards what the future may bring, even if only tomorrow, with little steps and little plans. While we may not be all-in-this-together given the extreme loss some of us have experienced, we can still empathise, share their grief and assist them.
At a societal level we have by necessity had to operate on an unusually level playing field in the sense that weâve all been in this isolation together.
And while our circumstances are different, we are also together in the recovery and the changes it may bring , whether it is in the economy, our social system, our political institutions or the way we care for the environment. We may need to learn new ways to create processes of social cooperation.
But if individually we can start with just one or two good new actions or behaviours we can each build these into positive habits. These can help to make us more adaptable and resilient , and help us plan a small way into the future. We can then have confidence in our choices and plans and help others obtain the assistance they need.
That way we will all be in a better place in our new communities.
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Effects rippling from the Covid 19 emergency include changes in the personal, social, and economic spheres. Are there continuities as well? Based on a literature review (primarily of UNESCO and OECD publications and their critics), the following question is posed: How can one resist the slide into passive technologization and seize the possibility of achieving a responsive, ethical, humane, and international-transformational approach to education? Technologization, while an ongoing and evidently ever-intensifying tendency, is not without its critics, especially those associated with the humanistic tradition in education. This is more apparent now that curriculum is being conceived as a complicated conversation. In a complex and unequal world, the well-being of students requires diverse and even conflicting visions of the world, its problems, and the forms of knowledge we study to address them.
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From the past, we might find our way to a future unforeclosed by the present (Pinar 2019 , p. 12)
Texts regarding this pandemicâs consequences are appearing at an accelerating pace, with constant coverage by news outlets, as well as philosophical, historical, and sociological reflections by public intellectuals worldwide. Ripples from the current emergency have spread into the personal, social, and economic spheres. But are there continuities as well? Is the pandemic creating a ânew normalâ in education or simply accenting what has already become normalâan accelerating tendency toward technologization? This tendency presents an important challenge for education, requiring a critical vision of post-Covid-19 curriculum. One must pose an additional question: How can one resist the slide into passive technologization and seize the possibility of achieving a responsive, ethical, humane, and international-transformational approach to education?
The ongoing present
Unpredicted except through science fiction, movie scripts, and novels, the Covid-19 pandemic has changed everyday life, caused wide-scale illness and death, and provoked preventive measures like social distancing, confinement, and school closures. It has struck disproportionately at those who provide essential services and those unable to work remotely; in an already precarious marketplace, unemployment is having terrible consequences. The pandemic is now the chief sign of both globalization and deglobalization, as nations close borders and airports sit empty. There are no departures, no delays. Everything has changed, and no one was prepared. The pandemic has disrupted the flow of time and unraveled what was normal. It is the emergence of an event (think of Badiou 2009 ) that restarts time, creates radical ruptures and imbalances, and brings about a contingency that becomes a new necessity (ŽiŞek 2020 ). Such events question the ongoing present.
The pandemic has reshuffled our needs, which are now based on a new order. Whether of short or medium duration, will it end in a return to the ânormalâ or move us into an unknown future? Ĺ˝iĹžek contends that âthere is no return to normal, the new ânormalâ will have to be constructed on the ruins of our old lives, or we will find ourselves in a new barbarism whose signs are already clearly discernibleâ (Ĺ˝iĹžek 2020 , p. 3).
Despite public health measures, Gil ( 2020 ) observes that the pandemic has so far generated no physical or spiritual upheaval and no universal awareness of the need to change how we live. Techno-capitalism continues to work, though perhaps not as before. Online sales increase and professionals work from home, thereby creating new digital subjectivities and economies. We will not escape the pull of self-preservation, self-regeneration, and the metamorphosis of capitalism, which will continue its permanent revolution (Wells 2020 ). In adapting subjectivities to the recent demands of digital capitalism, the pandemic can catapult us into an even more thoroughly digitalized space, a trend that artificial intelligence will accelerate. These new subjectivities will exhibit increased capacities for voluntary obedience and programmable functioning abilities, leading to a ânew normalâ benefiting those who are savvy in software-structured social relationships.
The Covid-19 pandemic has submerged us all in the tsunami-like economies of the Cloud. There is an intensification of the allegro rhythm of adaptation to the Internet of Things (Davies, Beauchamp, Davies, and Price 2019 ). For Latour ( 2020 ), the pandemic has become internalized as an ongoing state of emergency preparing us for the next crisisâclimate changeâfor which we will see just how (un)prepared we are. Along with inequality, climate is one of the most pressing issues of our time (OECD 2019a , 2019b ) and therefore its representation in the curriculum is of public, not just private, interest.
Education both reflects what is now and anticipates what is next, recoding private and public responses to crises. Ĺ˝iĹžek ( 2020 , p. 117) suggests in this regard that âvalues and beliefs should not be simply ignored: they play an important role and should be treated as a specific mode of assemblageâ. As such, education is (post)human and has its (over)determination by beliefs and values, themselves encoded in technology.
Will the pandemic detoxify our addiction to technology, or will it cement that addiction? Pinar ( 2019 , pp. 14â15) suggests that âthis ideaâthat technological advance can overcome cultural, economic, educational crisesâhas faded into the background. It is our assumption. Our faith prompts the purchase of new technology and assures we can cure climate changeâ. While waiting for technology to rescue us, we might also remember to look at ourselves. In this way, the pandemic could be a starting point for a more sustainable environment. An intelligent response to climate change, reactivating the humanistic tradition in education, would reaffirm the right to such an education as a global common good (UNESCO 2015a , p. 10):
This approach emphasizes the inclusion of people who are often subject to discrimination â women and girls, indigenous people, persons with disabilities, migrants, the elderly and people living in countries affected by conflict. It requires an open and flexible approach to learning that is both lifelong and life-wide: an approach that provides the opportunity for all to realize their potential for a sustainable future and a life of dignityâ.
Pinar ( 2004 , 2009 , 2019 ) concevies of curriculum as a complicated conversation. Central to that complicated conversation is climate change, which drives the need for education for sustainable development and the grooming of new global citizens with sustainable lifestyles and exemplary environmental custodianship (Marope 2017 ).
The new normal
The pandemic ushers in a ânewâ normal, in which digitization enforces ways of working and learning. It forces education further into technologization, a development already well underway, fueled by commercialism and the reigning market ideology. Daniel ( 2020 , p. 1) notes that âmany institutions had plans to make greater use of technology in teaching, but the outbreak of Covid-19 has meant that changes intended to occur over months or years had to be implemented in a few daysâ.
Is this ânew normalâ really new or is it a reiteration of the old?
Digital technologies are the visible face of the immediate changes taking place in societyâthe commercial societyâand schools. The immediate solution to the closure of schools is distance learning, with platforms proliferating and knowledge demoted to information to be exchanged (Koopman 2019 ), like a product, a phenomenon predicted decades ago by Lyotard ( 1984 , pp. 4-5):
Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valued in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.
Digital technologies and economic rationality based on performance are significant determinants of the commercialization of learning. Moving from physical face-to-face presence to virtual contact (synchronous and asynchronous), the learning space becomes disembodied, virtual not actual, impacting both student learning and the organization of schools, which are no longer buildings but websites. Such change is not only coterminous with the pandemic, as the Education 2030 Agenda (UNESCO 2015b ) testified; preceding that was the Delors Report (Delors 1996 ), which recoded education as lifelong learning that included learning to know, learning to do, learning to be, and learning to live together.
Transnational organizations have specified competences for the 21st century and, in the process, have defined disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge that encourages global citizenship, through âthe supra curriculum at the global, regional, or international comparative levelâ (Marope 2017 , p. 10). According to UNESCO ( 2017 ):
While the world may be increasingly interconnected, human rights violations, inequality and poverty still threaten peace and sustainability. Global Citizenship Education (GCED) is UNESCOâs response to these challenges. It works by empowering learners of all ages to understand that these are global, not local issues and to become active promoters of more peaceful, tolerant, inclusive, secure and sustainable societies.
These transnational initiatives have not only acknowledged traditional school subjects but have also shifted the curriculum toward timely topics dedicated to understanding the emergencies of the day (Spiller 2017 ). However, for the OECD ( 2019a ), the ânew normalâ accentuates two ideas: competence-based education, which includes the knowledges identified in the Delors Report , and a new learning framework structured by digital technologies. The Covid-19 pandemic does not change this logic. Indeed, the interdisciplinary skills framework, content and standardized testing associated with the Programme for International Student Assessment of the OECD has become the most powerful tool for prescribing the curriculum. Educationally, âthe universal homogenous âstateâ exists already. Globalization of standardized testingâthe most prominent instance of threatening to restructure schools into technological sites of political socialization, conditioning children for compliance to a universal homogeneous state of mindâ (Pinar 2019 , p. 2).
In addition to cognitive and practical skills, this âhomogenous state of mindâ rests on so-called social and emotional skills in the service of learning to live together, affirming global citizenship, and presumably returning agency to students and teachers (OECD 2019a ). According to Marope ( 2017 , p. 22), âthis calls for higher flexibility in curriculum development, and for the need to leave space for curricula interpretation, contextualization, and creativity at the micro level of teachers and classroomsâ. Heterogeneity is thus enlisted in the service of both economic homogeneity and disciplinary knowledge. Disciplinary knowledge is presented as universal and endowed with social, moral, and cognitive authority. Operational and effective knowledge becomes central, due to the influence of financial lobbies, thereby ensuring that the logic of the market is brought into the practices of schools. As Pestre ( 2013 , p. 21) observed, âthe nature of this knowledge is new: what matters is that it makes hic et nunc the action, its effect and not its understandingâ. Its functionality follows (presumably) data and evidence-based management.
A new language is thus imposed on education and the curriculum. Such enforced installation of performative language and Big Data lead to effective and profitable operations in a vast market concerned with competence in operational skills (Lyotard 1984 ). This ânew normalâ curriculum is said to be more horizontal and less hierarchical and radically polycentric with problem-solving produced through social networks, NGOs, transnational organizations, and think tanks (Pestre 2013 ; Williamson 2013 , 2017 ). Untouched by the pandemic, the ânew (old) normalâ remains based on disciplinary knowledge and enmeshed in the discourse of standards and accountability in education.
Such enforced commercialism reflects and reinforces economic globalization. Pinar ( 2011 , p. 30) worries that âthe globalization of instrumental rationality in education threatens the very existence of education itselfâ. In his theory, commercialism and the technical instrumentality by which homogenization advances erase education as an embodied experience and the curriculum as a humanistic project. It is a time in which the humanities are devalued as well, as acknowledged by Pinar ( 2019 , p. 19): âIn the United States [and in the world] not only does economics replace educationâSTEM replace the liberal arts as central to the curriculumâthere are even politicians who attack the liberal arts as subversive and irrelevantâŚit can be more precisely characterized as reckless rhetoric of a know-nothing populismâ. Replacing in-person dialogical encounters and the educational cultivation of the person (via Bildung and currere ), digital technologies are creating uniformity of learning spaces, in spite of their individualistic tendencies. Of course, education occurs outside schoolsâand on occasion in schoolsâbut this causal displacement of the centrality of the school implies a devaluation of academic knowledge in the name of diversification of learning spaces.
In society, education, and specifically in the curriculum, the pandemic has brought nothing new but rather has accelerated already existing trends that can be summarized as technologization. Those who can work âremotelyâ exercise their privilege, since they can exploit an increasingly digital society. They themselves are changed in the process, as their own subjectivities are digitalized, thus predisposing them to a âcurriculum of thingsâ (a term coined by Laist ( 2016 ) to describe an object-oriented pedagogical approach), which is organized not around knowledge but information (Koopman 2019 ; Couldry and Mejias 2019 ). This (old) ânew normalâ was advanced by the OECD, among other international organizations, thus precipitating what some see as âa dynamic and transformative articulation of collective expectations of the purpose, quality, and relevance of education and learning to holistic, inclusive, just, peaceful, and sustainable development, and to the well-being and fulfilment of current and future generationsâ (Marope 2017 , p. 13). Covid-19, illiberal democracy, economic nationalism, and inaction on climate change, all upend this promise.
Understanding the psychological and cultural complexity of the curriculum is crucial. Without appreciating the infinity of responses students have to what they study, one cannot engage in the complicated conversation that is the curriculum. There must be an affirmation of ânot only the individualism of a personâs experience but [of what is] underlining the significance of a personâs response to a course of study that has been designed to ignore individuality in order to buttress nation, religion, ethnicity, family, and genderâ (Grumet 2017 , p. 77). Rather than promoting neuroscience as the answer to the problems of curriculum and pedagogy, it is long-past time for rethinking curriculum development and addressing the canonical curriculum question: What knowledge is of most worth from a humanistic perspective that is structured by complicated conversation (UNESCO 2015a ; Pinar 2004 , 2019 )? It promotes respect for diversity and rejection of all forms of (cultural) hegemony, stereotypes, and biases (Pacheco 2009 , 2017 ).
Revisiting the curriculum in the Covid-19 era then expresses the fallacy of the ânew normalâ but also represents a particular opportunity to promote a different path forward.
Looking to the post-Covid-19 curriculum
Based on the notion of curriculum as a complicated conversation, as proposed by Pinar ( 2004 ), the post-Covid-19 curriculum can seize the possibility of achieving a responsive, ethical, humane education, one which requires a humanistic and internationally aware reconceptualization of curriculum.
While beliefs and values are anchored in social and individual practices (Pinar 2019 , p. 15), education extracts them for critique and reconsideration. For example, freedom and tolerance are not neutral but normative practices, however ideology-free policymakers imagine them to be.
That same sleight-of-handâvalue neutrality in the service of a certain normativityâis evident in a digital concept of society as a relationship between humans and non-humans (or posthumans), a relationship not only mediated by but encapsulated within technology: machines interfacing with other machines. This is not merely a technological change, as if it were a quarantined domain severed from society. Technologization is a totalizing digitalization of human experience that includes the structures of society. It is less social than economic, with social bonds now recoded as financial transactions sutured by software. Now that subjectivity is digitalized, the human face has become an exclusively economic one that fabricates the fantasy of rational and free agentsâalways self-interestedâoperating in supposedly free markets. Oddly enough, there is no place for a vision of humanistic and internationally aware change. The technological dimension of curriculum is assumed to be the primary area of change, which has been deeply and totally imposed by global standards. The worldwide pandemic supports arguments for imposing forms of control (Ĺ˝iĹžek 2020 ), including the geolocation of infected people and the suspensionâin a state of exceptionâof civil liberties.
By destroying democracy, the technology of control leads to totalitarianism and barbarism, ending tolerance, difference, and diversity. Remembrance and memory are needed so that historical fascisms (Eley 2020 ) are not repeated, albeit in new disguises (Adorno 2011 ). Technologized education enhances efficiency and ensures uniformity, while presuming objectivity to the detriment of human reflection and singularity. It imposes the running data of the Curriculum of Things and eschews intellectual endeavor, critical attitude, and self-reflexivity.
For those who advocate the primacy of technology and the so-called âfree marketâ, the pandemic represents opportunities not only for profit but also for confirmation of the pervasiveness of human error and proof of the efficiency of the non-human, i.e., the inhuman technology. What may possibly protect children from this inhumanity and their commodification, as human capital, is a humane or humanistic education that contradicts their commodification.
The decontextualized technical vocabulary in use in a market society produces an undifferentiated image in which people are blinded to nuance, distinction, and subtlety. For Pestre, concepts associated with efficiency convey the primacy of economic activity to the exclusion, for instance, of ethics, since those concepts devalue historic (if unrealized) commitments to equality and fraternity by instead emphasizing economic freedom and the autonomy of self-interested individuals. Constructing education as solely economic and technological constitutes a movement toward total efficiency through the installation of uniformity of behavior, devaluing diversity and human creativity.
Erased from the screen is any image of public education as a space of freedom, or as Macdonald ( 1995 , p. 38) holds, any image or concept of âthe dignity and integrity of each humanâ. Instead, what we face is the post-human and the undisputed reign of instrumental reality, where the ends justify the means and human realization is reduced to the consumption of goods and experiences. As Pinar ( 2019 , p. 7) observes: âIn the private sphereâŚ. freedom is recast as a choice of consumer goods; in the public sphere, it converts to control and the demand that freedom flourish, so that whatever is profitable can be pursuedâ. Such ânegativeâ freedomâfreedom from constraintâignores âpositiveâ freedom, which requires us to contemplateâin ethical and spiritual termsâwhat that freedom is for. To contemplate what freedom is for requires âcritical and comprehensive knowledgeâ (Pestre 2013 , p. 39) not only instrumental and technical knowledge. The humanities and the arts would reoccupy the center of such a curriculum and not be related to its margins (Westbury 2008 ), acknowledging that what is studied within schools is a complicated conversation among those presentâincluding oneself, oneâs ancestors, and those yet to be born (Pinar 2004 ).
In an era of unconstrained technologization, the challenge facing the curriculum is coding and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), with technology dislodging those subjects related to the human. This is not a classical curriculum (although it could be) but one focused on the emergencies of the momentânamely, climate change, the pandemic, mass migration, right-wing populism, and economic inequality. These timely topics, which in secondary school could be taught as short courses and at the elementary level as thematic units, would be informed by the traditional school subjects (yes, including STEM). Such a reorganization of the curriculum would allow students to see how academic knowledge enables them to understand what is happening to them and their parents in their own regions and globally. Such a cosmopolitan curriculum would prepare children to become citizens not only of their own nations but of the world. This citizenship would simultaneously be subjective and social, singular and universal (Marope 2020 ). Pinar ( 2019 , p. 5) reminds us that âthe division between private and public was first blurred then erased by technologyâ:
No longer public, let alone sacred, morality becomes a matter of privately held values, sometimes monetized as commodities, statements of personal preference, often ornamental, sometimes self-servingly instrumental. Whatever their function, values were to be confined to the private sphere. The public sphere was no longer the civic square but rather, the marketplace, the site where one purchased whatever one valued.
New technological spaces are the universal center for (in)human values. The civic square is now Amazon, Alibaba, Twitter, WeChat, and other global online corporations. The facts of our human conditionâa century-old phrase uncanny in its echoes todayâcan be studied in schools as an interdisciplinary complicated conversation about public issues that eclipse private ones (Pinar 2019 ), including social injustice, inequality, democracy, climate change, refugees, immigrants, and minority groups. Understood as a responsive, ethical, humane and transformational international educational approach, such a post-Covid-19 curriculum could be a âforce for social equity, justice, cohesion, stability, and peaceâ (Marope 2017 , p. 32). âUnchosenâ is certainly the adjective describing our obligations now, as we are surrounded by death and dying and threatened by privation or even starvation, as economies collapse and food-supply chains are broken. The pandemic may not mean deglobalization, but it surely accentuates it, as national borders are closed, international travel is suspended, and international trade is impacted by the accompanying economic crisis. On the other hand, economic globalization could return even stronger, as could the globalization of education systems. The ânew normalâ in education is the technological orderâa passive technologizationâand its expansion continues uncontested and even accelerated by the pandemic.
Two Greek concepts, kronos and kairos , allow a discussion of contrasts between the quantitative and the qualitative in education. Echoing the ancient notion of kronos are the technologically structured curriculum values of quantity and performance, which are always assessed by a standardized accountability system enforcing an âideology of achievementâ. âWhile kronos refers to chronological or sequential time, kairos refers to time that might require waiting patiently for a long time or immediate and rapid action; which course of action one chooses will depend on the particular situationâ (Lahtinen 2009 , p. 252).
For Macdonald ( 1995 , p. 51), âthe central ideology of the schools is the ideology of achievement âŚ[It] is a quantitative ideology, for even to attempt to assess quality must be quantified under this ideology, and the educational process is perceived as a technically monitored quality control processâ.
Self-evaluation subjectively internalizes what is useful and in conformity with the techno-economy and its so-called standards, increasingly enforcing technical (software) forms. If recoded as the Internet of Things, this remains a curriculum in allegiance with âorder and controlâ (Doll 2013 , p. 314) School knowledge is reduced to an instrument for economic success, employing compulsory collaboration to ensure group think and conformity. Intertwined with the Internet of Things, technological subjectivity becomes embedded in software, redesigned for effectiveness, i.e., or use-value (as Lyotard predicted).
The Curriculum of Things dominates the Internet, which is simultaneously an object and a thing (see Heidegger 1967 , 1971 , 1977 ), a powerful âtechnological tool for the process of knowledge buildingâ (Means 2008 , p. 137). Online learning occupies the subjective zone between the âcurriculum-as-plannedâ and the âcurriculum-as-livedâ (Pinar 2019 , p. 23). The world of the curriculum-as-lived fades, as the screen shifts and children are enmeshed in an ocularcentric system of accountability and instrumentality.
In contrast to kronos , the Greek concept of kairos implies lived time or even slow time (Koepnick 2014 ), time that is âself-reflectiveâ (Macdonald 1995 , p. 103) and autobiographical (Pinar 2009 , 2004), thus inspiring âcurriculum improvisationâ (Aoki 2011 , p. 375), while emphasizing âthe plurality of subjectivitiesâ (Grumet 2017 , p. 80). Kairos emphasizes singularity and acknowledges particularities; it is skeptical of similarities. For Shew ( 2013 , p. 48), â kairos is that which opens an originary experienceâof the divine, perhaps, but also of life or being. Thought as such, kairos as a formative happeningâan opportune moment, crisis, circumstance, eventâimposes its own sense of measure on timeâ. So conceived, curriculum can become a complicated conversation that occurs not in chronological time but in its own time. Such dialogue is not neutral, apolitical, or timeless. It focuses on the present and is intrinsically subjective, even in public space, as Pinar ( 2019 , p. 12) writes: âits site is subjectivity as one attunes oneself to what one is experiencing, yes to its immediacy and specificity but also to its situatedness, relatedness, including to what lies beyond it and not only spatially but temporallyâ.
Kairos is, then, the uniqueness of time that converts curriculum into a complicated conversation, one that includes the subjective reconstruction of learning as a consciousness of everyday life, encouraging the inner activism of quietude and disquietude. Writing about eternity, as an orientation towards the future, Pinar ( 2019 , p. 2) argues that âthe second side [the first is contemplation] of such consciousness is immersion in daily life, the activism of quietude â for example, ethical engagement with othersâ. We add disquietude now, following the work of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. Disquietude is a moment of eternity: âSometimes I think Iâll never leave âDouradoresâ Street. And having written this, it seems to me eternity. Neither pleasure, nor glory, nor power. Freedom, only freedomâ (Pesssoa 1991 ).
The disquietude conversation is simultaneously individual and public. It establishes an international space both deglobalized and autonomous, a source of responsive, ethical, and humane encounter. No longer entranced by the distracting dynamic stasis of image-after-image on the screen, the student can face what is his or her emplacement in the physical and natural world, as well as the technological world. The student can become present as a person, here and now, simultaneously historical and timeless.
Conclusions
Slow down and linger should be our motto now. A slogan yes, but it also represents a political, as well as a psychological resistance to the acceleration of time (Berg and Seeber 2016 )âan acceleration that the pandemic has intensified. Covid-19 has moved curriculum online, forcing children physically apart from each other and from their teachers and especially from the in-person dialogical encounters that classrooms can provide. The public space disappears into the pre-designed screen space that software allows, and the machine now becomes the material basis for a curriculum of things, not persons. Like the virus, the pandemic curriculum becomes embedded in devices that technologize our children.
Although one hundred years old, the images created in Modern Times by Charlie Chaplin return, less humorous this time than emblematic of our intensifying subjection to technological necessity. It âwould seem to leave us as cogs in the machine, ourselves like moving parts, we keep functioning efficiently, increasing productivity calculating the creative destruction of what is, the human now materialized (de)vices ensnaring us in convenience, connectivity, calculationâ (Pinar 2019 , p. 9). Post-human, as many would say.
Technology supports standardized testing and enforces software-designed conformity and never-ending self-evaluation, while all the time erasing lived, embodied experience and intellectual independence. Ignoring the evidence, others are sure that technology can function differently: âGiven the potential of information and communication technologies, the teacher should now be a guide who enables learners, from early childhood throughout their learning trajectories, to develop and advance through the constantly expanding maze of knowledgeâ (UNESCO 2015a , p. 51). Would that it were so.
The canonical questionâWhat knowledge is of most worth?âis open-ended and contentious. In a technologized world, providing for the well-being of children is not obvious, as well-being is embedded in ancient, non-neoliberal visions of the world. âEducation is everybodyâs businessâ, Pinar ( 2019 , p. 2) points out, as it fosters âresponsible citizenship and solidarity in a global worldâ (UNESCO 2015a , p. 66), resisting inequality and the exclusion, for example, of migrant groups, refugees, and even those who live below or on the edge of poverty.
In this fast-moving digital world, education needs to be inclusive but not conformist. As the United Nations ( 2015 ) declares, education should ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. âThe coming years will be a vital period to save the planet and to achieve sustainable, inclusive human developmentâ (United Nations 2019 , p. 64). Is such sustainable, inclusive human development achievable through technologization? Can technology succeed where religion has failed?
Despite its contradictions and economic emphases, public education has one clear obligationâto create embodied encounters of learning through curriculum conceived as a complicated conversation. Such a conception acknowledges the worldliness of a cosmopolitan curriculum as it affirms the personification of the individual (Pinar 2011 ). As noted by Grumet ( 2017 , p. 89), âas a form of ethics, there is a responsibility to participate in conversationâ. Certainly, it is necessary to ask over and over again the canonical curriculum question: What knowledge is of most worth?
If time, technology and teaching are moving images of eternity, curriculum and pedagogy are also, both âmovingâ and âimagesâ but not an explicit, empirical, or exact representation of eternityâŚif reality is an endless series of âmoving imagesâ, the canonical curriculum questionâWhat knowledge is of most worth?âcannot be settled for all time by declaring one set of subjects eternally importantâ (Pinar 2019 , p. 12).
In a complicated conversation, the curriculum is not a fixed image sliding into a passive technologization. As a âmoving imageâ, the curriculum constitutes a politics of presence, an ongoing expression of subjectivity (Grumet 2017 ) that affirms the infinity of reality: âShifting oneâs attitude from âreducingâ complexity to âembracingâ what is always already present in relations and interactions may lead to thinking complexly, abiding happily with mysteryâ (Doll 2012 , p. 172). Describing the dialogical encounter characterizing conceived curriculum, as a complicated conversation, Pinar explains that this moment of dialogue âis not only place-sensitive (perhaps classroom centered) but also within oneselfâ, because âthe educational significance of subject matter is that it enables the student to learn from actual embodied experience, an outcome that cannot always be engineeredâ (Pinar 2019 , pp. 12â13). Lived experience is not technological. So, âthe curriculum of the future is not just a matter of defining content and official knowledge. It is about creating, sculpting, and finessing minds, mentalities, and identities, promoting style of thought about humans, or âmashing upâ and âmaking upâ the future of peopleâ (Williamson 2013 , p. 113).
Yes, we need to linger and take time to contemplate the curriculum question. Only in this way will we share what is common and distinctive in our experience of the current pandemic by changing our time and our learning to foreclose on our future. Curriculum conceived as a complicated conversation restarts historical not screen time; it enacts the private and public as distinguishable, not fused in a computer screen. That is the ânew normalâ.
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The first kiss my baby niece blew me was bittersweet, because like so many pandemic interactions it happened not in person but on camera. Covid means that big chunks of her life have only been seen on a phone screen as she grows into a toddler. And Iâm one of the lucky ones: I havenât had to say goodbye to someone on FaceTime or break the worst news to someone over the phone.
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Iâm not so sure. Lockdown, then not-lockdown, then lockdown again have served as a reminder of just how adaptable we are as human beings. I was amazed at how quickly the idea of socialising with friends indoors became a fuzzy memory, then the norm, then distant again. The emotions I felt so acutely back in March â the sharp fear Covid could steal my parents, the communal endeavour of clapping for our carers every Thursday night â soon faded into a new normal, impossible to sustain even though many of the realities have barely changed.
The pandemic has underlined the extent to which digital interaction is no substitute for the real thing. In some ways, Iâm more in touch with people than ever thanks to the numerous WhatsApp groups that revived themselves into a constant source of company. But tapping away in a couple of group chats while absent-mindedly watching the latest Netflix offering doesnât come close to the wonderful feeling of hugging a friend, or spending three hours giving someone you havenât seen for ages your undivided attention over a meal, or of having a conversation based not just on words but physical cues. I doubt the pandemic will seed a long-term distaste for crowds; if anything, I suspect that, if all goes well with the vaccine rollout, summer 2021 will see a crop of riotous street parties and carnivals.
But a return to life as usual will not mask the emotional toll Covid will have had on so many people. People who suffer from anxiety and depression; women in abusive relationships ; children experiencing abuse or neglect at the hands of their parents: they have had it the worst, and their experiences of isolation and loneliness during lockdown could have consequences for their personal relationships that will not magically disappear with a vaccine.
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âThe Brits are on course to save the world,â wrote leading US economist Tyler Cowen in Bloomberg Opinion about our scientists efforts last summer while the journal Science quoted leading international researchers who have heaped praise on British anti-Covid work. Science in the UK is perceived, correctly, to have done well in facing up to the pandemic.
A perfect example is provided by the UKâs Recovery trial, a drug-testing programme involving more than 3,000 doctors and nurses who worked with more than 12,000 Covid patients in hundreds of hospitals across the nation â from the Western Isles to Truro and from Derry to Kingâs Lynn. Set up within a few days of the pandemic reaching the UK, and carried out in intensive care units crammed with seriously ill people, Recovery revealed that one cheap inflammation treatment could save the lives of seriously ill Covid patients while two much-touted therapies were shown to be useless at tackling the disease.
No other country has come close to matching these achievements. âWe had the people with the right skills and a willingness to drop everything else and contribute to the effort,â says one of Recoveryâs founders, Martin Landray of Oxford University. âThat made all the difference.â In a nation which had only recently reviled, openly, the concept of expertise, scientists like Landray have restored the reputation of the wise and the informed.
Fiona Fox, director of the Science Media Centre, also points to the willingness of our scientists to communicate. âTime after time, we have asked for comments from leading researchers, epidemiologists and vaccine experts on breaking Covid stories, and despite being inundated with work, they have taken the time to provide clear analyses that have helped to make sense of rapidly changing developments,â she says. âIt has been extraordinary.â
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The more things change, the more they stay the same.
It may not feel like it at the moment, admittedly. But if this pandemic echoes other defining events in our recent history, from the 9/11 terror attacks to the 2008-09 banking crash, it will leave the political landscape utterly transformed in some respects yet wearily familiar in others.
Last weekâs spending review , spelling out how the cost of battling Covid will shape national life for years to come, was a classic example. A public sector pay freeze, plus benefit cuts next April? Well, weâve been there before; to many families it will feel like austerity all over again.
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The pandemic also seems to be changing what people look for in a leader. The last recession pushed angry, despairing voters towards populists with easy answers; make America great again, take back control. But Covid has been a brutal reminder that in life-and-death situations, competence is everything. Joe Biden isnât wildly exciting but at least he doesnât speculate aloud about the merits of drinking bleach. From New Zealandâs Jacinda Ardern to Germanyâs Angela Merkel and Scotlandâs Nicola Sturgeon, the leaders whose reputations have been enhanced by this crisis tend to be pragmatists and consensus-seekers, not excitable culture warriors. Keir Starmerâs rising poll ratings suggest a hunger for steady-as-she-goes leadership in Britain too.
Optimists will hope that this collective near-death experience brings a renewed political focus on what actually makes life worth living, from supportive communities to the beauty of a natural world that sustained many through lockdown. Pessimists, however, will worry that calls to âbuild back betterâ, or reset society along fairer and greener lines, could be an early casualty of a hard recession that leaves people focussed purely on economic survival.
For it would be naive not to expect a backlash against all of this. Nigel Farage is already trying to whip one up via his new anti-lockdown party , targeting voters angry at having freedoms curtailed. But if the last crash unleashed an era of radicalism and revolt, itâs not impossible this one will leave people craving a quiet life. After such turmoil, donât underestimate the longing to get back to normal, even if the normal we once knew is gone. Gaby Hinsliff, Guardian columnist
We know that the spaces from which âcultureâ emerges wonât look the same after 2020 as they did before. Many theatres, bookshops, music venues and galleries wonât survive the catastrophe of shutdown, and if they do emerge it will be with diminished resources. But what about the attitude and the focus of creativity. Will it be shadowed by the pandemic post-vaccine or will it celebrate liberation?
History suggests both. The terrible mortality, social distancing and economic hardship resulting from the 1918-19 Spanish flu epidemic that followed the war were shaping forces in both the doom-laden experiments of modernism and the high hedonism of the jazz age. The Waste Land and the Charleston emerged within months of each other. TS Eliot wrote much of the former while suffering from the after-effects of the influenza, haunted, as his wife Vivienne noted, by the fear that as a result of the virus, âhis mind is not acting as it used to doâ. Certainly, that poemâs most memorable lines, with their stress on the mass gathering, read more pointedly from our current vantage point: âUnder the brown fog of a winter dawn,/ A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,/ I had not thought death had undone so many./ Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,/ And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.â
But, contrarily, the spirit of the post-pandemic age was equally alive in the bathtub-gin excitement of the Cotton Club, and the rarefied decadence of the Bright Young Things: raucous celebrations of seize-the-day freedoms after the misery of war and virus.
Not much literature or music that directly responds to the current pandemic has yet emerged. Zadie Smithâs brief book of essays , Intimations , hazarded something of what that response might look and sound like. In a memorable phrase, she described the events of this year as âthe global humblingâ. That moment when we collectively realised that the confident certainties of what we used to call ânormal lifeâ were only ever a heartbeat away from unknown threats â and that the US, Smithâs adopted home, having led the world in many things, was now leading the world in death.
Will such experience engender a new and deepening age of anxiety in the books we read and the films we watch? No doubt that apprehension of apocalypse, of environmental emergency, that draws us to The Road or to Chernobyl will become more insistent. But as Eliot also noted, humankind âcannot bear very much realityâ. After this year in which the young have been denied so many of their rites of passage â chances to sing, dance, drink or love â we can surely hope for a post-viral creative outpouring of all those things that make us most happy to be alive. Tim Adams, Observer writer
âImagine thereâs no commuting, itâs easy if you tryâ, is a popular refrain in discussions of the post-Covid world of work predicting the imminent demise of the office. Sometimes itâs combined with the claim that low-earning hospitality and leisure jobs that have dried up mid-pandemic wonât be coming back and so shouldnât get support now.
These different predictions are likely to be wrong for the same reason: they pay too much attention to crystal balls, and not enough to rear-view mirrors. Yes, the pandemic itself has meant big changes to the world of work. It has changed where some people (generally higher earners) work while hitting the ability of many lower earners to work at all. But imagining a world without lockdowns is best done by focusing on those pandemic-driven trends that reinforce, rather than run against, patterns visible pre-crisis .
So, expect the pandemicâs turbo-charging of retailâs online shift (with Arcadiaâs likely administration the latest example) to continue â there will be fewer cashiers and more delivery drivers. But donât believe the hype on the decline of hospitality and leisure. Workers in those sectors are twice as likely to have lost their jobs or been furloughed as the pandemic has left us spending more on buying things than going out, but the long-term trend is the opposite: hotels and restaurants accounted for a fifth of the pre-pandemic employment surge.
Working from home (or living in the office, as it can feel like) has been the big change for professional Britain. But history warns against the idea that the office is finished. Only one in 20 of us worked entirely remotely pre-crisis. But three times that number worked at home at least one day a week, a trend that was rapidly growing. Hybrid home/office working is the future. But be careful about assuming this transforms Britainâs disgracefully big economic gaps: some will benefit from more choice about where to live but offices in poorer areas, rather than those in central London, may be the ones that end up empty. And remember, weâre only talking about a fraction of the workforce here. Post-Covid, waiters and cleaners wonât be doing their jobs from their spare room or kitchen table.
As well as predicting the future, we should be trying to shape it. Higher pay and more security for the low paid workers who faced the biggest health and economic risks from this crisis would be a good place to start. Torsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation
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The sudden onset of the Coronavirus pandemic took everyone across the world by surprise. We live in an ever-changing society and unprecedented times, which brings its own struggles in our everyday lives. To help make some sense of the modern world, here we list down some essay collections that released in the 'new normal' which offer some wisdom and solace. Photo: Canva
02 /12 'Intimations' by Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith's 'Intimations' released in July 2020, when the world was undergoing a lockdown due to the Coronavirus pandemic. In this short collection, Smith writes essays on one of the strangest years many of us ever experienced.
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03 /12 'How to Stay Sane' by Elif Shafak
Released in August 2020, 'How to Stay Sane' by Elif Shafak is a powerful read. Drawing from her own personal memories, in this book, Shafak writes about the power of stories and how they can bring us together. She also reveals how listening to each other nurtures empathy and democracy leading us to a kinder future.
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04 /12 'Voices of Dissent: An Essay' by Romila Thapar
In 'Voices of Dissent', one of India's most popular public intellectuals Romila Thapar sheds light on a long history and articulation of dissent in the Indian subcontinent. The book is an essential read if you would like to understand not only India's past but also the direction in which our society is headed.
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05 /12 'A Swim in a Pond in the Rain' by George Saunders
In 'A Swim in a Pond in the Rain', Booker Prize winner George Saunders writes about what makes great stories so successful with readers and what they tell us about ourselves and our ever-changing world today.
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06 /12 'The Spirit of Enquiry' by TM Krishna
Released in May 2021, 'The Spirit of Enquiry' is Ramon Magsaysay Award 2016-winner and Carnatic tradition vocalist TM Krishna's new collection of key writings. The book is divided into five sections, namely: art and artistes; the nation state; the theatre of secularism; savage inequalities; and in memoriam, according to the book's blurb.
07 /12 'The Anthropocene Reviewed' by John Green
‘The Anthropocene Reviewed’ is John Green's first non-fiction book which is based on his popular podcast of the same name. Anthropocene is a name for our geologic age. In this series of essays, Green takes some aspects of humanity and reviews them on a scale of one to five.
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08 /12 'Languages of Truth' by Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie's 'Languages of Truth' is a new collection of essays, criticism, and speeches written during 2003-2020. And though the pieces are written pre-pandemic, they give a perspective of how the world changed in the recent past.
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09 /12 'Notes on Grief' by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Released in May 2021, 'Notes on Grief' by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a daughter's tribute to her late father. Adichie lost her father in a sudden turn of events in 2020. In this book, she remembers him as she grieves her irreparable loss. Many people lost their near and dear ones during the Coronavirus pandemic and though grief is a very personal experience, some readers might find solace and reliability in Adichie's words.
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10 /12 'Azadi' by Arundhati Roy
In this collection of essays, writer-activist Arundhati Roy makes the readers reflect on the true meaning of freedom in a world which is leaning towards authoritarianism. "The pandemic, Roy says, is a portal between one world and another. For all the illness and devastation it has left in its wake, it is an invitation to the human race, an opportunity to imagine another world," reads the book's blurb.
11 /12 'Homo Irrealis' by Andre Aciman
Released in January 2021, Andre Aciman's 'Homo Irrealis' is a collection of thoughts about time, great artists, writers and creative minds, and notable works. The book "is a deep reflection of the imagination's power to shape our memories under time's seemingly intractable hold," according to its blurb.
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12 /12 'Things Are Against Us' by Lucy Ellmann
'Things Are Against Us' is Booker 2019 nominee Lucy Ellman's new collection of essays which was released in July 2021. From matriarchy to present-day environmental and climate crisis to Donald Trump's chaotic rule in the United States-- Ellmann shares her sharp opinions on various topics in this book.
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How long is 200 words? A 200-word text is perfect for conveying concise and focused thoughts on a topic. It takes less than one double-spaced or 0.4 single-spaced pages , so it requires you to prioritize the most crucial points while preserving clarity and consistency. This word count is typical for abstracts, annotated bibliography entries, discussion board posts, position papers, and book reports.
In this article, we will discuss how to structure a 200-word essay to make it compelling and engaging. As a bonus, you will also receive a list of interesting topics, writing prompts, and practical samples. You can check out IvyPanda free essays for more inspiration!
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- Why is it important to recycle?
- The significance of education in society.
- How does social media influence teenagersâ mental health?
- My role model for my career.
- What are the benefits of being bilingual?
- Effective ways to decrease depression among youth.
- My first trip abroad.
- Modern technology: the key drawbacks.
- People should protect the environment.
- How does fashion impact self-expression?
- Teenage abortion: for or against.
- The value of time management.
- Gambling should be banned in the United States.
- Why is it crucial to forgive?
- The benefits of a positive mindset.
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- Extreme Obesity as a Risk Factor of Respiratory Disability One of the most widespread risk factors that perturb the prevalence of respiratory impairment is extreme obesity. In conclusion, extreme obesity is a dangerous condition that may pose as a threat to the life of […]
- âChildhood and Adolescent Obesityâ: Article Review In the article “Childhood and adolescent obesity: A review,” the authors examine the different treatment options for obesity and argue that current medication is the most effective approach to addressing this issue.
- Obesity Problem in Medical Cardiology My preceptor advised me to concentrate on the visual part while presenting the prevalence of obesity globally and emphasizing the importance of preventing this condition.
- Obesity Problem and Community Initiatives Increasing the availability of healthier food choices and improving the access to these healthier foods within the community will help reduce obesity.
- âObesity, Physical Activity, and the Urban Environmentâ by Lopez Additionally, the study had proved that suburban areas’ features could not be connected to the higher risks of obesity since the inner-city population has higher rates of illness.
- Epidemiology Discussions: Childhood Obesity Disease Obesity is a serious disease among children of Chicago. As a rule, it is measured by the use of a Body Mass Index.
- Disseminating Evidence: Childhood Obesity The attendees at the meeting will also publish the proposed solutions and results of the research study. It is also vital to mention that researchers of the study will be expecting feedback after the convention.
- Management of Obesity and Social Issues That Emerge With Its Development The article by Omole focuses on recent shift in the management of obesity and the social issues that emerge with its development, namely, the culture of fat-shaming, by considering some of the alternatives toward evaluating […]
- Obesity Among the Elderly People in Warren Township Obesity among the elderly people living in Warren Township could be a result of different measures of socioeconomic status which may include; the family, cultural factors, biological pathways as well as ethical and sociopolitical factors […]
- Obesity Cure in Children The purpose of the research will focus on examining the effectiveness of the medicines introduced, usage, and any associated side effect.
- Obesity as a Health Challenge in Starr County, Texas It has been declared that this county is the most obese in the state. However, the government and county leaders can contribute to the development of proper lifestyles.
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Here are some helpful 200-word essay example prompts that you can use to reveal your personality or talk about your life experience:
- Autobiography about yourself 200 words. In your essay, you can describe your place of birth, childhood, or major life events that have shaped your worldview.
- Who am I: essay 200 words. Write about your bad and good habits, values, and hobbies. Also, you can describe your personality traits and preferences.
- 200-word essay about the importance of research to you as a student. Provide the benefits you get from conducting research. Examples include acquiring new knowledge, clarifying complicated concepts, understanding research methods , and balancing between collaborative and individual work.
- How will counseling help you get through with your problems: 200 words essay. Discuss how counseling may be a beneficial resource in dealing with personal issues that prevent you from achieving your ambitions.
- My first job essay â 200 words. Describe your first employment, the lessons you learned from it, and how it shaped your outlook on work and responsibilities.
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- Substance Use During Pregnancy as a Crime Personally, I believe that the system where healthcare workers must report drug abuse is the most effective method to help pregnant women get rid of addiction and protect the health of their babies.
- Should Pregnant Women Be Subject to Criminal Prosecution? The research shows that criminalizing pregnant women who use or misuse drugs is harmful to both them and their unborn children.
- Adolescent Pregnancy and School Dropout After COVID-19 in Kenya The article of Zulaika presents the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on adolescent pregnancy and school dropout among secondary school girls in Kenya.
- The National Campaign End Teenage Pregnancy in Ohio The dream of most parents is to ensure their children lead to a successful future which may be affected by the occurrence of unplanned teenage birth.
- Interrelation of Ramadan Fasting and Pregnancy Therefore, the principal aim of this research is to investigate and analyze the long-term effects of Ramadan fasting among pregnant Muslim women on unborn babies.
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Writing an essay in 200 words may be difficult since you must present a logical and convincing point in a limited number of words. It requires you to be precise and selective in choosing the information you want to cover, making every word count.
In the following paragraphs, we will discuss the structure of a 200-word essay in detail!
What Does 200 Words Look Like?
A 200-word essay usually consists of 3 parts:
- Introduction (2-3 sentences)
- Main body (4-5 sentences)
- Conclusion (2-3 sentences)
A 200-word essayâs main body should be focused and clearly address your chosen topic. Each sentence should efficiently express your point of view while staying within the word limit.
Try our outline generator to create a compelling 200-words example outline!
200 Word Essay Introduction
The introductory paragraph of a 200-word essay is about 50 words in length. Since the paper is short, you can begin your opening paragraph with a strong thesis statement. After the thesis, summarize the points you want to reveal in the body paragraph.
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The conclusion of the 200-word article, like the introduction, should be about 50 words. It must briefly outline the main thoughts and restate the thesis statement. Also, the last paragraph should provide the reader with a sense of closure and emphasize the importance of the topic.
We also recommend you use our concluding sentence generator to write your essayâs conclusion quickly and effectively!
How Many References in a 200 Word Essay?
The number of sources depends on the type of work and your teacher’s requirements. On average, for 150 words, you need to include 1 reference. As a result, for a 200-words paragraph, you will need 1-2 sources.
Our citation generator is a helpful online tool that can assist you in creating the reference list for your essay within several seconds.
⥠Alternative Sources of Energy Essay 200 Words: Examples
- Energy: Types and Conversion Process This process is called energy conversion, and it is one of the most important concepts in understanding energy. An example of energy conversion in daily activities is the shift from electric energy to heat in […]
- ExxonMobil: Shaping the Future of Energy Through Innovation and Responsibility ExxonMobil, one of the world’s major publicly-listed energy suppliers and chemical manufacturers, manufactures and deploys next-generation technologies to help fulfill the world’s expanding demand for energy consumption and high-quality chemical products safely and responsibly.
- The Nuclear Power Passages: Rhetorical Analysis At that, the writer also provides some data utilized by the former vice president and some information to show the negative side of power plants.
- Technology and Wind Energy Efforts by the elite members of the society enlightened the global countries about the benefits of renewable energy sources in conserving the environment prompting the need to consider wind energy.
- Non-Renewable Energy and Gross Domestic Product of China The use of non-renewable energy in China has the negative impact on the GDP, as indicated by the negative values of DOLS and CCR coefficients. The generation of renewable energy has a negligible negative impact […]
- Building Energy Assessment and Rating Tools Houses are rated prior to building them or after building them and the rating depends on the dwelling’s plan; the erection of its roof, walls, windows and floor; and the direction of its windows relative […]
đą Essay of 200 Words on Social Media: Prompts
Writing an essay on social media? We have prepared for you good writing prompts that can be helpful when crafting a 200-word paragraph on social media. Find a suitable 200-words sample prompt below:
- The advantages and disadvantages of Facebook: paragraph 200 words. Discuss the pros and cons of Facebook. Its benefits can include networking, access to new information, and dating. Among the disadvantages are privacy issues , addiction, unnecessary criticism, etc.
- The impact of social media on mental health: essay 200 words. Explore how social media might damage mental health. You can also come up with possible solutions.
- Impact of social media on youth: essay 200 words. Investigate the effects of social media on young people, emphasizing the benefits and risks social platforms may have for teenagersâ behavior and development.
- Facebook should be banned: essay 200 words. Provide arguments for or against banning Facebook. Support your opinion by sharing your experience using this social media platform.
- 200 words essay on social media addiction. In your essay, you can focus on a specific aspect of social media addiction . For example, you can dwell on its major signs, risks of developing, or ways to deal with it.
- Virtual life and real-life paragraph 200 words. Compare and contrast virtual life with real life, highlighting differences and possible intersections. Discuss how virtual life can make you less social.
đď¸ Essay on Life after COVID-19: 200 Words Examples
- Future of Public Health After the COVID-19 The pandemic acted as a detonator of the problems of the key sphere of life support of the population. In my opinion, public medical institutions will improve themselves under the influence of factors such as […]
- Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Policy Changes The case of COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the necessity for governments to institute new policies swiftly in order to address the spread of infections.
- Unemployment Rate After COVID-19 However, there is a visible disparity between the national unemployment rate and that of the Hispanic or Latino demographic group, which was 12.
- The Healing Wings Project After COVID-19 The pandemic of COVID-19 did not only pose a threat to the physical health of the population but also put many people in a position in which they had to deal with the loss of […]
- The Issue of Gender Inequality After Covid-19 To date, the role of women in society has increased many times over, both in the economic, social, and political spheres of public life.
- Curriculum Trends in Schools After COVID-19 It is especially relevant in an era of the pandemic because distance education is a reality the whole world is facing. That is, the curriculum should be flexible and meet the needs of learners.
- World Medical Relief After COVID-19 In conclusion, patients’ needs for healthcare equipment and supplies are critical, and the failure to receive the appropriate medication might be life-threatening.
- The Recovery of the US Economy After the Pandemic One of the key issues that the United States is currently facing is the recovery of its economy after the pandemic.
- Digital Economy After the COVID-19 Pandemic With the spread of COVID-19 in the world, more and more people work remotely using video conferencing services and instant messengers.
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đ how many pages is 200 words double spaced.
How many pages are 200 words of academic text? According to the guidelines of all the key citation styles, one page should contain approximately 250 words (12-point Times New Roman, double-spaced). If you follow these guidelines, your 200-word essay will be one page. If you make it single-spaced, it will take half a page.
đ How Much Is 200 Words in Paragraphs?
How many paragraphs is a 200-word essay? Since a typical paragraph in academic writing contains 50-100 words, an essay of 200 words will consist of 2 to 4 paragraphs.
đ How Many Sentences Is 200 Words?
How many sentences is a 200-word essay? A typical sentence in academic writing consists of 15-20 words. So, 200 words are not less than 10-13 sentences.
đ How to Outline a 200-Word Essay?
When you write a 200-word essay, proper planning is the key to success. Such a short piece will consist of three to five concise paragraphs. A 200-word paper outline can contain a short introduction with background information, 1-3 body paragraphs, and a conclusion.
đ How Long Does It Take to Write 200 Words?
How long does it take to write a 200-word essay? It will take you 4-8 minutes to type 200 words on your keyboard (the total time will depend on your typing speed). Writing an academic paper will take more time because youâll have to research, make an outline, write, format, and edit your text. It would be best if you planned to spend not less than 40 minutes for a 200-word paper.
đ How to Reduce Word Count in a 200-Word Essay?
The easiest way to do that is to get rid of the less important arguments you consider in your 200-word essay. Rank your arguments and eliminate those weaker. Another idea is to edit your paper in order to make sentences shorter. For instance, you can remove some of the adverbs.
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How Long Is a 200 Word Essay Double Spaced?
A 200-word text usually takes about 1 page. All the major citation styles assume that an essay will take approximately 250 words per page. The most common format is double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12 pt. The details might differ â for instance, in MLA 9 and APA 7, Calibri and Arial are also accepted. However, 12-point Times New Roman remains preferable.
How Many Paragraphs Is 200 Words?
A 200-word essay should include 2 to 4 paragraphs. In academic writing, a paragraph should contain at least 50 words and three sentences.
200-Word Essay Structure
A 200-word essay is quite a short piece. However, it should be properly planned. Your essay should contain four to five concise paragraphs. It is to consist of an introduction paragraph, two to three body paragraphs, and a conclusion.
How Long Does a 200-Word Essay Take?
It will take you about 4 to 8 minutes to type 200 words on your keyboard, depending on your typing speed. However, if you also need to perform research, make a reference list, add in-text citations, and graphic materials, you’ll need more time â not less than 0,5 hours for 200 words.
How Many Body Paragraphs Are in a 200 Word Essay?
An average 200-word essay contains 1 to 2 paragraphs. Each paragraph should be 70 to 150 words long.
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âItâs a very big hit to morale for the exact class that felt like they lost their high school graduation.â
DIVYA JAKATDAR , the University of Southern Californiaâs student body president who was a high school senior in spring 2020, on the college canceling its main commencement ceremony amid campus protests over the war in Gaza.
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