Child care and COVID: Precarious communities in distanced times

Beth Blue Swadener; Lacey Peters; Dana Frantz Bentley; Xiomara Diaz; Marianne Bloch

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Child care and COVID: Precarious communities in distanced times

Beth Blue Swadener, Lacey Peters, Dana Frantz Bentley, Xiomara Diaz, Marianne Bloch

Social Transformation, School of (SST)

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Abstract

Drawing from an analysis of responses to COVID affecting the ECCE sector in the US, including the narratives of early childhood educators, we engage with several questions. These include: How is care work with children constructed and affected by COVID-19? How might current responses and policies be understood through the lens of social citizenship and the collective/the individual? How do these issues reflect the precarity of the ECCE sector? How are embodied and emotional aspects of care work manifesting in early educator/caregiver lives in the time of the pandemic? Who is caring for the caregivers and what care may be needed? How can we re-imagine the care of ourselves, and in relation to an ethics of care for the other?

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	313-326
Number of pages	14
Journal	Global Studies of Childhood
Volume	10
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/2043610620970552
State	Published - 2020

Keywords

child care
early childhood
policy and advocacy
teacher perspectives

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Demography
Education
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Development
Sociology and Political Science

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