‘Covid-19 and Me’. A Serendipitous Teaching and Learning Opportunity in a 1st Year Undergraduate Medical Anthropology Course

Russell, Andrew; Johnson, Lucy; Tupper, Emily; Keegan, Alice-Amber; Atkher, Halima; Mullard, Jordan

Abstract

'Covid-19 and Me' was an affective learning blog post exercise assigned to 1st year undergraduate students taking a medical anthropology module at the start of academic year 2020-21. We describe the way in which a collective analysis of the accounts was undertaken and how these were presented and discussed in a set of online and face-to-face seminars. We discuss whether Covid-19 was indeed a portal in Arundhati Roy's use of the term, arguing that it was the written reflection and collective anthropological analysis of their accounts, rather than the virus itself, that enabled students to 'imagine the world anew'.

Citation

Russell, A., Johnson, L., Tupper, E., Keegan, A., Atkher, H., & Mullard, J. (2021). ‘Covid-19 and Me’. A Serendipitous Teaching and Learning Opportunity in a 1st Year Undergraduate Medical Anthropology Course. Teaching Anthropology, 10(3), Article 38-45. https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v10i3.604

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 14, 2021
• Online Publication Date: May 20, 2021
• Publication Date: 2021
• Deposit Date: Jan 12, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 20, 2024
• Journal: Teaching Anthropology
• Print ISSN: 1537-1751
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 3
• Article Number: 38-45
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v10i3.604
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1218103