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Online teaching and poverty eradication - Stories from Jamaica to counter the effects of COVID-19

Understanding the ripple effect of COVID-19 on inequality

Carla Moore, adjunct lecturer at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the University of West Indies, Mona Unit, Jamaica, participated as a youth expert in UNESCO’s Regional Consultation on Racism and Racial Discrimination where she shared her views on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social exclusion. Understanding this phenomenon in the Jamaican context, she argues, requires a different set of lenses such as gender, ethnic origin or class affiliation. The UN75 Magazine features UNESCO's subsequent conversation with her that helps the reader understand the ripple effect of COVID-19 on inequality in Caribbean Small Island Developing States.

Only by eradicating poverty can sustainable solutions to inequalities be found
Carla Moore, adjunct lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica

Reinventing Art Education through Online tools

Mrs. Bright-Chin-See is an art teacher from Jamaica. Due to school closures as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, she had to switch from traditional classroom teaching to online teaching, like many other teachers. For her, this change brought many reflection on how to engage and motivate her students. Ms Bright-Chin-See tells her story, the challenges she faced and how UNESCO helped her reinvent education and creativity through the new online environment.  

Art is an individual expression, but now I need to find new ways to interact with my students because I want them to be creative and authentic in their artisic expressions
Mrs. Bright-Chin-See, art teacher from Jamaica