The Phenomenon of Invisibility in the Era of Distance Teaching as an Unprecedented Test of Co-responsibility in Education Cover Image

Zjawisko niewidoczności w czasach zdalnego nauczania jako bezprecedensowy sprawdzian współodpowiedzialności w edukacji
The Phenomenon of Invisibility in the Era of Distance Teaching as an Unprecedented Test of Co-responsibility in Education

Author(s): Iwona Tomas
Subject(s): Education, Communication studies, Distance learning / e-learning
Published by: Uniwersytet Ignatianum w Krakowie
Keywords: invisibility; distance teaching; co-responsibility; impaired visibility; communication;

Summary/Abstract: RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The aim of this paper is to present and discuss multifaceted issues of the phenomenon of pupil “invisibility” at the time when system teaching was first implemented in the form of distance teaching. THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: The main problem of the publication is to capture and consequently present the multifaceted nature of the phenomenon of student “invisibility” in the era of distance teaching. The factor initiating the presented considerations was the author’s experience immersed in a specific fragment of the educational reality. An exploratory strategy (based on analysis) was applied to the discussed issue questions about its essence, specificity and structure, and to reading the sense and meaning of the observed phenomena. THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION: In the introduction, the mode of communication during e learning activities was described, thanks to which it became possible to show the issue of com municative opacity and the related student invisibility. In the following sections, invisibility is shown as a need, danger, and an unprecedented test of contemporary education, which often supersedes the existence of a consciously co responsible approach to learning and teaching. RESEARCH RESULTS: The final analysis of the discussed phenomenon quite unexpectedly redirects the recipient from the phenomenon of invisibility to the problem of lack of student and teacher co responsibility. This specific deficit of feeling co responsibility is presented as a main reason for the “low score” for distance teaching. CONCLUSIONS, INNOVATIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS: This publication points to the need to cultivate a sense of didactic and upbringing co responsibility, the occurrence of which in the era of distance teaching could become equal to solving the undesirable phenomenon of invisibility in the era of distance teaching.

  • Issue Year: 20/2021
  • Issue No: 55
  • Page Range: 37-48
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish