The findings from this exploratory study highlight both the need for improving pedagogy in the remote learning contexts along with tutors requiring professional development workshops to conduct effective online classes that include incorporating various digital tools that meets the educational needs of children with learning disabilities. Parents believe that the learner needs of children with disabilities during the remote learning scenario were not taken into consideration, special tutors shared their experience and limitations some which included difficulty in handling online classes, lack of financial support to invest in relevant technological platforms. Results from the interactions with both parents and special tutors reveal there is a need to revisit learning and teaching strategies and improve access to new media educational technologies to help maximise uptake and success of the e-learning approach in the context of special education. A pre-designed Likert scale questionnaire was also administered to 170 students with learning disabilities in South Bangalore to record the academic challenges they faced during their online classes. This study explores the effectiveness of this alternate method of teaching on students with learning disabilities through the lens of parents and special tutors from renowned special schools in South Bangalore using interviews and focus group discussions. Effectiveness of e-learning has emerged to be an area of research, particularly in this context of the pandemic. With almost two years of virtual learning, this has led to a demand for both teachers and students to upskill and equip themselves with technological capability. There has been a rise in distance/online learning, this includes teachers teaching remotely using various digital platforms. With the onset of the pandemic, there has been a massive shift and transformation in the way knowledge is disseminated. Particularly, teachers need much training, encouragement, and support to move towards further advanced and collaborating pedagogies online. Additional preparation is also required from both teachers and students to make a meaningful contribution to such technology-oriented classes. It should also be noted that while such technology-based teaching tools are a step in the right direction, they should not be considered as a perfect replacement for time-tested teacher-student classroom interactions that happen organically in classrooms. However, technical challenges remain in integrating this technology successfully into modern classrooms. Blackboard technology’s advantages in EFL were found to outnumber their disadvantages. The analysis of literature pointed out that EFL classes were positively influenced when Blackboard technology was utilised. The study also provides a definitive opinion regarding the usefulness of blackboard technology. Numerous studies have been analysed thoroughly to conclude whether these technology-oriented tools directly affect the EFL teaching-learning process. In pursuing this aim, this study has followed the narrative literature approach, using analytical and comparative techniques as primary research methods. The study carries out a detailed review of the overall impact of deploying the Blackboard online platform in the EFL teaching-learning process. Notably, what makes Whitman’s prophetic vision possible in the poem is the way this vision is filtered through the symmetrical relationship between the body and soul and the way this relationship echoes the perfection of the universe and the complementary aspect of its natural cycle. The new world prophesized and heavily stressed by Whitman in “The Sleepers” becomes thus free of antagonism, cruelty, and prejudice. This transcendental process brings nature and culture together and harmonizes them within one unified system where biological, racial, ethnic, and ideological differences cease to exist. Importantly, Whitman’s views about what humanity should look like and the way it must be conceptualized are premised upon his microcosmic self that can transcend all (im)material boundaries to a cosmological level. This paper aims at foregrounding the reciprocity and (meta)physical unity between the self and humanity in Walt Whitman’s “The Sleepers,” which shapes up Whitman’s ontological and spiritual experience of humanity.
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