Cover image for Going remote : a teacher's journey
Title:
Going remote : a teacher's journey
Publication Date:
2023
Publication Information:
Fair Oaks, CA : The Censored Press ; New York : Seven Stories Press, [2023]

©2023
Physical Description:
ix, 149 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781644212707
Abstract:
"With Peter Glanting's powerful illustrations, author Adam Bessie, an English professor and graphic essayist, uses the unique historical moment of the COVID-19 pandemic as a catalyst to explore the existing inequalities and student struggles that plague the public education system. This graphic memoir chronicles the reverberations from the onset of the pandemic in 2020 when students and educators left their physical classrooms for remote learning. As a professor at a community college, Bessie shows how despite these challenges, teachers work tirelessly to create a more equitable educational system by responding to mental health issues and student needs. From the Black Lives Matter protests to fielding distressed emails from students to considering the future of his own career, Going Remote also tells the personal story of Bessie's cancer diagnosis and treatment during the pandemic. A fusion of memoir, meditation, and scholarship, Going Remote is a powerful account of a crisis moment in educational history demonstrating both personal and societal changes. Includes back matter revealing the literary and theoretical touchpoints that inform Going Remote (works by Octavia Butler, Neil Postman, Jaron Lanier, and Diane Ravitch). Going Remote is a joint production of The Censored Press and Seven Stories Press"-- Provided by publisher.
General Note:
"A joint production of The Censored Press & Seven Stories Press"--title page verso.

Includes Author and Illustrator Q&A.
Contents:
The return -- Our future inside -- Going remote -- Resonant imaging -- Algorithms for home -- White space -- Watch and wait -- The fall -- Where there's smoke -- Experimental subject.
Language:
English
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