MotherScholaring During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Investigating the Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on MotherScholars

The book "MotherScholaring During the COVID-19 Pandemic" explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the professional, personal, and family lives of mothers in academia, highlighting the historical, societal, and cultural inequities between diverse groups of MotherScholars. It presents diverse narratives and methodologies through collaborative autoethnography, photovoice, and kuwentos, addressing the pressures and influences affecting mothers in academia and the additional burdens faced by MotherScholars with marginalized cultural and religious identities.

Format: Hardback
Length: 124 pages
Publication date: 11 December 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the professional, personal, and family lives of mothers in academia, often referred to as "Mother Scholars." This book presents interdisciplinary empirical studies that explore the complex influence of the pandemic on these scholars' lives. It draws attention to the historical, societal, and cultural inequalities that have been exacerbated by the pandemic and higher education's responses to it.

The volume showcases diverse ethnicities, including Black, Pinay, and Asian American, and encompasses a wide range of disciplines, such as sociology, education, psychology, Asian American studies, and more. Through various methodologies, such as collaborative autoethnography, photovoice, and kuwentos, the book shares diverse narratives linked by an identity and pursuit of MotherScholarhood. It addresses the various pressures and influences affecting mothers in academia, as well as the additional burdens and prejudices faced by Mother Scholars with marginalized cultural and religious identities.

Taken as a whole, the book presents important and complementary findings from different Mother Scholar perspectives, highlighting the complexity of their experiences and the ways in which the pandemic has impacted them. This resource will be valuable for researchers and practitioners in education studies, educational research, educational leadership and policy, educational administration, gender studies, and womens studies.

The book was originally published as a special issue of the Peabody Journal of Education, further emphasizing its significance in the field of education.

Weight: 408g
Dimension: 254 x 178 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032661599