Parenting in the pandemic : the collision of school, work, and life at home a collection of essays / Edited by Rebecca Lowenhaupt & George Theoharis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lowenhaupt, Rebecca, editor.

Theoharis, George, editor.

Series:

Work-life balance.

Work-life balance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Home and school.

Epidemics--Social aspects.

Epidemics.

Parent and child.

Educational change.

COVID-19 (Disease)--Social aspects.

COVID-19 (Disease).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, NC : Information Age Publishing, Incorporated, 2021.

Summary:

"In March of 2019, our daily lives were upended by the 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Documenting our collective experiences: An Introduction to the book

Section I. Fierce urgency of now: Pandemic parenting, justice, and identity

Chapter 1. Ice cream for breakfast / Vincent Cho

Chapter 2. For everything there is a season / Jennie Weiner

Chapter 3. Privileging love during a double pandemic / Gretchen Givens Generett

Chapter 4. Dear isabella / Dalia Rodriguez

Chapter 5. Pandemic homeschooling and decisions made of care and fear / Susan W. Woolley

Chapter 6. Privilege doesn't mean you didn't work hard / George Theoharis

Chapter 7. Enough / Erica O. Turner

Chapter 8. Seeking refuge in times of crisis / Mario Perez

Chapter 9. Holding, trusting, and loving in 2020 / Josh Bornstein

Chapter 10. Humanizing education as our world unravels / Carrie Sampson

Chapter 11. The ways we parented / Decoteau J. Irby

Section II. Got to go through it!: Schooling at home

Chapter 12. Mama e / Gabrielle Oliveira

Chapter 13. Carousel parenting: Up, down, and around we go again / Jacob Hall

Chapter 14. Realtime ruminations: Young children's thoughts on social life in 2020 / Ariana Mangual Figueroa

Chapter 15. Social isolation while self-isolating / Shaun M. Dougherty

Chapter 16. When going away to school goes away / Sarah Woulfin

Chapter 17. Should the kids go back to school? Wrong answers only / Erin Marie Furtak

Chapter 18. Wrestling with grace / Noreen Naseem Rodriguez

Chapter 19. Paradoxes, pedagogy, and parenting / Patrick Proctor

Chapter 20. A new process of living / Rebecca Lowenhaupt

Chapter 21. We are sensitized to rareness / Bill Black

Chapter 22. The only way is through: Parenting my teenagers in a world upended / Sharon Radd

Chapter 23. My kids will be fine: What about everybody else's? Joanne marshall

Chapter 24. The challenges of music teaching and learning during the pandemic / Elisa Macedo Dekaney

Chapter 25. Unexpected bonus time / Edmund Ted Hamann

Section III. We are here for the storm: Seeking balance in the midst of crisis

Chapter 26. Paradoxes in pandemic parenting / Martin Scanlan

Chapter 27. Chaos and connection / Lisa M. Dorner

Chapter 28. Single-parenting as an academic during a global health pandemic: Lessons learned about managing distraction, mom guilt, and self-compassion / Sera J. Hernandez

Chapter 29. Particles and dueling French horns / Sharon Dotger

Chapter 30. Struggling beautifully: Raising two black girls in the midst of global health and racial pandemics / Terrance L. Green

Chapter 31. Lockdown / Alexandra Freidus

Chapter 32. Uncertainty, transitions, and an unexpected opportunity / Kate Spence

Chapter 33. Life can be hard, but it is beautiful / Jing Lei

Chapter 34. Straight outta the containment zone / Rosa L. Rivera-McCutchen

Chapter 35. Just the two of us: Solo parenting during the pandemic / Jessica Rigby

Chapter 36. A story of a part-time parent during the pandemic / Bong Gee Jang

Chapter 37. The challenges and gifts of being a parent and an academic in a pandemic / Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj

Chapter 38. Blurring or erasing the lines between work and home? Raquel muñiz

Chapter 39. Tenure tracking from home / Rachel Silver

Chapter 40. Pandemic parenting in the middle of life and academic transitions / Diego Román

Chapter 41. Sinking and swimming through the COVID-19 pandemic / Kristen Bottema-Beutel

Chapter 42. The things i learned / Katharine O. Strunk

Chapter 43. Tenured professor, novice parent: A pandemic tale of love and learning / Melissa A. Martinez

Chapter 44. Professor/parent / Corrie Stone-Johnson. A Final Note to Our Readers. About the Authors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781648025228

1648025226

OCLC:

1252739808