Playing in the Face of Death: Pedagogical Play as Love and Lament in a Time of COVID
Death always brings questions for the living. How do we teach and learn in a context of death and pandemic? This essay recounts and reflects on experiences of “playing in the face of death” in a graduate-level adult learning community at the onset of Covid-19 in New York City. Play became a healing...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2021
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| In: |
Religious education
Year: 2021, Volume: 116, Issue: 1, Pages: 16-25 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
New York, NY
/ Pandemic
/ Dying
/ Death
/ Role-play
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion AH Religious education CB Christian life; spirituality |
| Further subjects: | B
Covid
B Playing B Religious Education B Lament B pedagogical love |
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| Summary: | Death always brings questions for the living. How do we teach and learn in a context of death and pandemic? This essay recounts and reflects on experiences of “playing in the face of death” in a graduate-level adult learning community at the onset of Covid-19 in New York City. Play became a healing and holy act of pedagogical love and lament in a time of crisis. |
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| ISSN: | 1547-3201 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious education
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/00344087.2021.1864195 |