Full Description
In March of 2020, 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.
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.
