Latika Gupta and Chaise LaDousa

Latika Gupta is Assistant Professor in the Department of Education at Delhi University. She is the author of Education, Poverty, and Gender: Schooling Muslim Girls in India (Routledge, 2015). ▪️ Chaise LaDousa is the Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of Anthropology at Hamilton College. He is the author of Hindi Is Our Ground, English is Our Sky: Education, Language, and Social Class in Contemporary India (Berghahn, 2014).

Teaching and Learning in a Pandemic: Reflections on the Digital in University Education in India

By Latika Gupta and Chaise LaDousa / Issue 29, Education, Magazine / 13 minutes of reading

Introduction (Chaise LaDousa): Global media reported on the COVID-19 pandemic in India, focusing on infrastructural dynamics in the health care system, patterns of migrant labor, and inequities in society more generally. The plight of teachers and students was less visible. One of the most common responses to the pandemic worldwide was to switch to online