Publications

Rapport om fjernundervisningen på Ilisimatusarfik under Coronakrisen foråret 2020. Rapporten er skrevet på baggrund af spørgeskemaundersøgelse blandt undervisere, og et enkelt fokusgruppeinterview med studerende med grønlandsk baggrund.

Konklusionen er, at universitetet ikke har en samlet strategi, men at der har udfoldet sig en mangfoldighed af didaktiske løsninger af fjernundervisningen. En konklusion er, at der skete en polarisering af studerende: Fagligt stærke studerende tog ansvar, hvor fagligt svage studerende blev fraværende. En konklusion er, at studerende oplevede, at blød kommunikation og værenhed i tilstedeværelsesundervisning ikke optrådte i fjernundervisningen under nedlukningen.

Greenland experienced a 5-week lockdown during the COVID-19 crisis. The lockdown effectively took out all public social support and food supply for people experiencing homelessness in the capital Nuuk. This woke up Greenland’s social conscience in the form of a local NGO’s mobilization of voluntary social helpers. Luckily nobody in the homeless environment got infected and suffered needlessly. From a social policy perspective, we can take three experiences away from the pandemic. Firstly, a clear learning experience from this crisis was the need to redefine the broad societal understanding of Greenland a country with a universal welfare system. The second experience was that social work comes in many shapes and forms. Finally, the experience illustrated what could take place when the political and administrative system are too slow to react in times of crisis. It kickstarted the civil society step up and help fellow citizens. In the end NGO’s need to reports back and inform the public system to ensure better social emergency response in the future.