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Vol. 2 No. 2 (2022): Technology and educational ‘pivoting’ in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic

To see or not to see; the withering boundaries of invisibility: A novice Kuwaiti tutor’s experience of teaching online

DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21428/8c225f6e.16fb2902
Submitted
8 August 2026
Published
15-08-2026

Abstract

This paper reports my experience as a first-time online tutor in a Kuwaiti college during the Covid-19 pandemic. Using autoethnography coupled with a feminist approach to research I analyse my experience and the challenges created for me in this new setting. Guided by my interests and tactics, I present the struggle of a novice tutor to manage her course and teach and support her students in what seemed to be a context which blurred the boundaries between face-to-face (FtF) and online settings in a unique way. I also present a narrative of students’ tactics, interests, and power which compelled the tutor to change her teaching approach and adapt it in a way that helped sail the students to successfully passing their module. This is a story of what seems to be an emerging context of invisibility (with hidden interests and clash of powers) distinctive of the Kuwaiti online context that materialised by choice and power.

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