Parenting in the Pandemic - The Collision of School, Work, and Life at Home A Collection of Essays (Hardcover)

In March of 2019, our daily lives were upended by the COVID pandemic and subsequent school closures. With work and school shifting online, a new and ongoing set of demands has been placed on parents as school moved to online, virtual and hybrid models of learning. Families need to balance professional responsibilities with parenting and supporting their children's education. As education professors, we find ourselves in a particular position as our expertise collides with the reality of schooling our own children in our homes during a global pandemic. This book focuses on the experiences of education faculty who navigate this relationship as pandemic professionals and pandemic parents. In this collection of personal essays, we explore parenting in the pandemic among education professors. Through our stories, we share our perspectives on this moment of upheaval, as we find ourselves confronting practical (and impractical) aspects of long held theories about what school could be, seeing up close and personally the pedagogy our children endure online, watching education policy go awry in our own living rooms (and kitchens and bathrooms), making high-stakes decisions about our children's (and other children's) access to opportunity, and trying to maintain our careers at the same time. In this collision of personal and professional identities, we find ourselves reflecting on fundamental questions about the purpose and design of schooling, the value of our work as education professors, and the precious relationships we hope to maintain with our children through this difficult time.

General

Imprint:	Information Age Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Work-Life Balance
Release date:	April 2021
Editors:	Rebecca Lowenhaupt • George Theoharis
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	232
ISBN-13:	978-1-64802-521-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > Open learning & distance education
LSN:	1-64802-521-8
Barcode:	9781648025211

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