Pandemic Pedagogies

J. Michael Ryan is an award-winning teacher who has held academic positions at top-ranked universities across five continents. He is currently Associate Professor of Sociology at Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan) and has previously held academic positions in Egypt, Portugal, Ecuador, and the USA. Before returning to academia, Dr. Ryan worked as a research methodologist at the National Center for Health Statistics (which is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) in Washington, DC, where he led multiple projects aimed at improving national statistical survey methodology. He is the author (with Serena Nanda) of COVID-19: Social Inequalities and Human Possibilities (Routledge 2022) and (co-)editor of more than 15 volumes, including COVID-19: Global Pandemic, Societal Responses, Ideological Solutions (Routledge 2021), COVID-19: Social Consequences and Cultural Adaptations (Routledge 2021), and Core Concepts in Sociology (Wiley 2019). He is also the founding editor of Routledge’s The COVID-19 Pandemic Series.

1. Introduction 2. Pandemic Pedagogies: Teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic 3. The Subtlety of Simultaneity: A lesson for educators 4. "Expendable and Devalued": A snapshot of higher education’s COVID-19 response 5. School Closures during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Diverse strategies, unequal impacts 6. Schooling During Lockdown: experiences, comparisons and legacies 7. Triage Teaching: Exploring teacher self-efficacy during the COVID-19 pandemic 8. Navigating Structural Inequalities of Mothering in the Academy during COVID-19 9. Liminalities and Possibilities: Latinx pedagogies and practices in pandemic times 10. Gendered Effects of COVID-19 on Faculty Members in Turkey 11. Adapting Technology in Language Teaching and Learning in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic in Tanzania 12. Careening Toward a Preventable Crisis: Toxic bureaucracy in higher education