Book on ‘Coronavirus and Education’ released at Khalsa College of Education, Amritsar

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, November 8

Exploring educational issues during the Covid-19 epidemic, the new book on “Coronavirus and Education” was released at Khalsa College of Education (KCE) here today.

The work highlights opportunities and challenges faced by teachers and students during the pandemic and how education milieu changed overnight due to lockdown?

Blending of offline/online classes, teaching and digital divide, responsibilities of teachers during pandemic, minding the mind, future of education and e-learning in public schools are some of the major issues addressed in the book, which is readers’ delight as it sums up burning topics of education.

Edited by Dr Hapreet Kaur, Principal, KCE, and Dr Maninder Kaur and Dr Deepika Kohli, both Assistant Professors, the book contains scholarly articles, which scrutinise the role of digital education, responsibilities of teacher, wellness and mental health of students, ecological learning and impact of the lockdown on reading habits.

While releasing the book, Khalsa College Governing Council honorary secretary Rajinder Mohan Singh Chhina said, “Education was worst hit during Covid-19 pandemic. The book critically examines transformational changes in education throughout the world.”

Dr Harpreet Kaur said while the traditional way of teaching was ‘chalk and talk’, the methodology was changed overnight to classes bringing drastic changes in dissemination of education world over. India coped up well and teachers and students switched over to the new methods of teaching, she added. “There is a dire need to re-imagine education, curriculum and pedagogy,” she said.