Abstract
For many students across the United States, their last day on school campuses was the week before spring break of 2020. Due to the rising concern over COVID-19, most schools across PK to higher education moved to remote learning. This article is a critical reflection by the author in which she shares her experiences as a professor in higher education at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The author questions the role of education, using a critical framework and a Marxist analysis of capitalism, to center the function of the education system during COVID-19. From the author’s perspective, economic interests superseded the interests of health and safety of the education community. The COVID-19 world pandemic demonstrated the essential roles of schooling beyond institutions of learning. According to the author, the key role of schooling is socializing students into existing socio-economic hierarchies.
Recommended Citation
Diaz, Marisol
(2021)
"We Didn’t Return to Campus: COVID-19 Pandemic as an Opportunity for Critical Reflection on the Essence of Education,"
Journal of Multicultural Affairs: Vol. 6:
Iss.
2, Article 12.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/jma/vol6/iss2/12
Included in
Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Curriculum and Social Inquiry Commons, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Commons
Tell us how this article helped you.