Abstracts
Abstract
This collaborative autoethnography examines how we (four students and a professor of community-engaged research) used our experiences to make sense of life during COVID‑19. Engaging in a collective approach to autoethnographic writing, we highlight different perspectives of a cultural moment shaped by the science denialism and untruths that define US governmental practices and approaches to the pandemic. We share how we are dealing with COVID‑19 discourses that run counter to the scientific foregrounding of our STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) and health and medical sciences training, reflect on the role of the pandemic in shifting post-baccalaureate plans, navigate the lockdown while participating in racial justice protests in Minneapolis, and examine the experiences of being essential healthcare workers while in school. By situating these shifting ways of learning, teaching, and engaging as portents of the difficulties we may continue to face, we show the possibilities of narrative methods in imagining and implementing post-pandemic healthcare practices grounded on a praxis of community justice and collective care.
Keywords:
- collaborative autoethnography,
- COVID‑19,
- health sciences,
- STEM education,
- pre-med
Résumé
Cette auto-ethnographie collaborative examine comment nous (quatre étudiants et un professeur de recherche communautaire) avons tiré parti de nos expériences pour donner un sens à la vie pendant la pandémie de COVID-19. À travers une approche collective de l’écriture auto-ethnographique, nous donnons à voir différentes perspectives d’un moment culturel marqué par le négationnisme scientifique et les contre-vérités propres aux pratiques et approches du gouvernement américain face à la pandémie. Nous montrons comment nous traitons les discours sur la COVID-19 qui vont à l’encontre de la centralité scientifique de notre formation en STIM (science, technologie, ingénierie et mathématiques) ou en sciences médicales et de la santé ; nous réfléchissons à la façon dont la pandémie nous oblige à modifier nos plans post-baccalauréat ; nous décrivons comment nous vivons le confinement tout en participant aux manifestations pour la justice raciale à Minneapolis ; et nous analysons nos expériences en tant que travailleurs de la santé essentiels pendant nos études. En abordant la transformation des méthodes d’apprentissage, d’enseignement et d’engagement comme le signe des difficultés auxquelles nous pourrions continuer à être confrontés, nous mettons en évidence les possibilités qu’offrent les méthodes narratives pour imaginer et mettre en oeuvre des pratiques de soins de santé post-pandémiques fondées sur une praxis de justice communautaire et de soins collectifs.
Mots-clés :
- auto-ethnographie collaborative,
- COVID-19,
- sciences de la santé,
- STIM,
- sciences médicales
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