Journal of Positive School Psychology http://journalppw.com 2022, Vol. 6, No. 10, 3713-3722 "Humanizing" Pedagogies In Online Learning And Teaching- A Necessity In The Wake Of The Covid-19 Pandemic Ratish Chand 1 , Victor Alasa, PhD. 2 , Rohini Devi Chand 3 1 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0042-0366 Fiji National University, Fiji ratish.chand@fnu.ac.fj 2 (Corresponding author) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9518-3652 Fiji National University, Fiji victor.alsa@fnu.ac.fj 3 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8705-6976 Fiji National University, Fiji rohini.devi@fnu.ac.fj Abstract With the transition to e-learning that has resulted from COVID-19, teacher educators risk being engulfed in a "web of competency" that might dehumanize the learning experience for both educators and students. In this study, three teacher educators describe how they employ modern technology to execute crucial humanizing pedagogies. This entails going beyond solely cognitive techniques, addressing questions of power, access, and representation reflexively, and considering systemic concerns of power and privilege that create and restrict pedagogical options with a focus on respecting students' voices. We emphasize meaning-making, relating to social realities, and embracing multimodality in our discussion of the online assessment. The study also highlights the issues of power, privilege, and ideology concerns often disregarded in online educational environments, particularly at the institutional, instructional design, and support levels. The reflections denoted that we learnt more about our students by applying critical humanizing assessment in online teaching. It took time for students to realize the importance of ongoing, continuous learning, and "success" looked different for each student. Finally, it was also gathered that we as teacher educators needed to embody crucial qualities, the 5C's, namely creativity, commitment, compassion, consistency, and character, to inculcate the 'human touch' in our online learning and teaching processes for maximum outcomes. Keywords: assessment, critical pedagogy, critical humanizing pedagogy, humanizing, online course (re)construct, online assessments, online teacher education Introduction As educators, we have witnessed, in most cases, the substitution of the connectivity and physical dimension of relationships that had existed before the advent of the pandemic in a classroom situation or during instructional delivery in our schools, especially in Fiji. Teachers' humane disposition and physical contact were mainly eroded by devices and gadgets intermediaries. Nevertheless, we understand from experience that inculcating a 'human touch' in educational pedagogy would result in striving to meet students where they are, on their terms, as learners and human beings, as opposed to a standardized curriculum offered to all students everywhere without respect for individual variables such as cultural background, student choices, and their socio-economic status. With this focus, "Humanizing Pedagogy" is the development and implementation of educational techniques that are aligned with learner's experiences and views and recognize and honour their culture, home languages, and lived experiences, with the greater purpose of furthering equality and social justice via day-to- day classroom interactions (Fránquiz & Salazar,