Abstract
Covid-19 presented an existential and ontological threat to a Black professor of Social Work at a liberal arts college in Canada. This paper is a reflective account of the tremendous shift in gear regarding his pedagogy and vulnerabilities and their implication for social work education and the resilience of his students.
Highlights
I did not want to admit to a pandemic
I did not realize that we were standing on the verge of another historic event, a raging pandemic in the neoliberal era
Maybe I was in denial, after all, with a dose of magical thinking
Summary
I did not want to admit to a pandemic. I could not say that was denial. It caused such a huge disruption to the academic session as we had three working days to transition every class online. It was a time to quickly react or respond to the immediate needs of students to complete the semester for which they had already paid.
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