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Sustaining Korean Studies: Challenges And Prospects In Philippine Higher Education Institutions, Aurea C. Javier, Sarah Jane Lipura, Ma. Kristina Carla S. Rico, Oliver John C. Quintana
Sustaining Korean Studies: Challenges And Prospects In Philippine Higher Education Institutions, Aurea C. Javier, Sarah Jane Lipura, Ma. Kristina Carla S. Rico, Oliver John C. Quintana
Korean Studies Department Faculty Publications
The view and reality of a bifurcated world are brought into stark relief by COVID-19. Those long-standing inequalities in different facets of life are exacerbated by the pandemic that has been widely acknowledged and documented. Scholars recognize that humanity has entered the era of “Covidscapes,” where there is a shared experience of the pandemic; but where segregation is felt at different levels due to its differential impact. While division and its many manifestations are not the makings of the pandemic; COVID-19 is amplifying long-standing binaries between the developed and developing; the affluent and the poor; and even the West and …
Adding An International Student’S Voice To The Pandemic Discourse As Thinkers, Not Subjects: Reflections On Power, Stillness And Humanness, Sarah Jane Lipura
Adding An International Student’S Voice To The Pandemic Discourse As Thinkers, Not Subjects: Reflections On Power, Stillness And Humanness, Sarah Jane Lipura
Korean Studies Department Faculty Publications
As of this writing, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on international higher education is continuously being documented, drawing enough, if not too much, attention towards international students. However, the voices of international students remain muted such that much of what has been said about their experience do not directly come from them but from those who claim to speak on their behalf. In this essay, I attempt to add an international student voice to the pandemic discourse by shifting attention to international students not as subjects but as thinkers and co-producers of knowledge in their own right, in hope …