Parents' Experiences of Home-Schooling amid COVID-19 School Closures, in London, England

Autor/in	Khan, Tehmina
Titel	Parents' Experiences of Home-Schooling amid COVID-19 School Closures, in London, England
Quelle	In: Journal of Early Childhood Research, 20 (2022) 4, S.580-594 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Khan, Tehmina)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1476-718X
DOI	10.1177/1476718X221098666
Schlagwörter	Parents as Teachers; Experience; COVID-19; Pandemics; School Closing; Foreign Countries; Home Instruction; Mothers; Middle Class; Well Being; Home Management; Advantaged; Stress Variables; United Kingdom (London) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Erfahrung; School closings; Schule; Schließung; Schließung (von Schulen); Ausland; Heimunterricht; Mother; Mutter; Mittelschicht; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Haushaltswesen
Abstract	Upon COVID-19 being declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, parent-carers worldwide faced major challenges in how to adapt, become resilient, and to continue educating their children at all levels amid school closures. Home-schooling, with parent-carers becoming the substitute teachers, had become the new 'norm' during the first and third lockdowns in England. This paper reports on qualitative findings from semi-structured interviews with 35 participants comprised of parents with children aged between 5 and 8 years old in South London, England. Thematical analysis is used to capture parents' well-being experiences of home-schooling amid COVID-19 compulsory school closures. This paper explores how the pressure on parent-carers to provide education at home akin to a school setting is physically and emotionally challenging. The paper also addresses how parents' stress levels intensified in the second (January 2021) home-schooling period. A post-structural feminist framework is deployed to unpick gender socio-cultural inequalities relating to the distribution of work/labour/childcare duties at home during lockdown. Existing research has focussed on the impact on low-income families and children's well-being during the pandemic. This research contributes to existing research by addressing an under-researched area relating to the impact on well-belling for middle-income maternal caregivers. Findings of this research show how financial privilege does not provide an escape from additional stress and how parents' well-being was affected. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01