Abstract

Imagining a possible social pedagogical approach to healthcare, Teaching and learning in community as an emergency response that brings healthcare, teaching and learning into our shelter and place in community as a measure to arrest the spread of Covid 19. This is a travelling virus, if people do not travel, the virus does not travel! Stay in shelter and place till then! Let us reorganize ourselves and remember that relationships, love, care, solidarity, respect, honesty, directness, integrity, bonding, is not locked down. Let us continue socializing as we keep physical distancing…! In this way, we can keep our social bonds intact! This is our power and our center for holding our possible world post the COVID 19 pandemic. We applaud the Black Academic Caucus for leading the thinking work of another world possible in our lives in community. The thinking work concerned academic in South Africa that continues to move that thinking forward is highly commendable and appreciated. Lastly, I would like to express my sincere gratitude for the thinking and doing space that has been created by the COVID19 People’s Assembly in South Africa as we collectively seek emergency responses for curbing the spread of COVID19. We are engaged in act of thinking work, teaching work and learning that is deeply embedded in socio-economic and political engagements of our time as presented by the pandemic crisis. I see the Coalition space as a model that I imagine can be a form of teaching and learning in community. This is what I have been doing since the outbreak of the COVID19 pandemic. I have been doing mu teaching work through the work of the Coalition in ways that I have brought in some of my postgraduate Masters and PhD students that I supervise into the space to enable them to learn in action as they also become part of a collective framing, imagining emergency responses. I therefore see this is a perfect example of what a social pedagogical teaching and learning in community approach can look like.

Keywords: Imagining; Social pedagogical approach; Curriculum transformation; Healthcare transformation; COVID19 Pandemic; Black Academic Caucus