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The COVID-19 pandemic radically altered the everyday worlds of children, young people and families. Exploring their experiences and practices of care during this period, Care and Coronavirus: Perspectives on Childhood, Youth and Family brings developments in the field of Childhood Studies into productive dialogue with care to forge new ways of thinking through care and childhood.
Split into five sections, each bookended with a practitioner reflection, the chapters discuss how the pandemic engendered and necessitated novel forms of caregiving and experiences of receiving care. Highlighting changes to everyday norms and routines, contributors focus on diverse spaces of care and incorporate perspectives from children, practitioners, policymakers and academics. Investigating early childhood systems of care, children and young people’s health and wellbeing, parents as subjects and recipients of care, schooling as care and young people navigating care and control beyond school, authors offer key reflections for thinking through these experiences during the pandemic, challenging the inequalities and commodification of care that was revealed in these times.
Arguing that COVID-19 heightened the attention paid to care and the ways in which care is vital for the maintenance of ourselves and the world around us, Care and Coronavirus calls for a reflection on the failures and successes of care during the pandemic and in its aftermath so that we can plan for a more caring future.
Tom Disney is a Social Geographer and Associate Professor of Childhood Studies at Northumbria University.
Lucy Grimshaw is a Social Scientist and Assistant Professor of Social Policy at Northumbria University.
Chapter 1. Introduction: Care, Childhood, Youth and Family in the context of Coronavirus; Tom Disney and Lucy Grimshaw
Section 1. Early Systems of Care
Chapter 2. Children’s and Parents’ Experiences of Care During The Pandemic: An International Review; Fabio Dovigo
Chapter 3. Childcare, Responses to Poverty in Preschool and a ‘New Normal’ after Covid?; Donald Simpson and Sandra Lyndon
Chapter 4. COVID-19 Anxiety and Early Childhood Development: Reflections from Practitioners in Early Years Settings; Charmaine Agius Ferrante and Elaine Chaplin
Section 2. Children and Young People’s Health and Wellbeing
Chapter 5. Experiences of Vulnerable Girls from an Informal Settlement in South Africa during COVID-19 Lockdowns; Lucy Currie, Sibusisiwe Tendai Sibanda, and Athenkosi Mtumtum
Chapter 6. Children’s Care for Public Health and Politically Expedient Care for Children in Aotearoa New Zealand’s COVID-19 Pandemic; Julie Spray
Chapter 7. We were the only ones still seeing Families, We just had to be Creative about How!: A Reflection on Health Visiting Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic; Frances Gunn
Section 3. Parents as Subjects and Recipients of Care
Chapter 8. A Simple Life? Parents’ Early Narratives Of Babies Raised During the COVID-19 Pandemic; Laura Bellussi and Siân Lucas
Chapter 9. "I Don't Have a Lot of Choice … My Boss He Still Likes to Go to the Office Everyday Pretty Much"- Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 on Parents’ Decision-making when Planning Care during their Child’s First Year; Clare Matysova
Chapter 10. Family Life, Covid and Care: A Conversation between Parent and Child; Fiona Ranson and Cuong Nyugen
Section 4. Schooling as Care
Chapter 11. Caring and Schooling in the Time of COVID-19; Tom Disney, Lucy Grimshaw, and Judy Thomas
Chapter 12. Take Care Everyone!’ Care Ethics at Work Whilst Homeschooling and Caring for Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic; Lucy Grimshaw, Kay Heslop, Kirstin Mulholland, Vikki Park, Jill Duncan, Jaden Allan, Cathryn Meredith, and Christopher Warnock
Chapter 13. Teaching During Lockdowns; Linzi Brown
Chapter 14. Precarious Schooling and COVID-19; Jason Burg
Section 5. Young People Navigating Care and Control Beyond the School
Chapter 15. Virtual Hearings and their Impact on Children’s Participation in Decisions about their Care and Protection; Catherine Nixon, Kirsty Deacon, Andrew James, Ciara Waugh, Zodie, and Sarah McGarrol
Chapter 16. Everyday Life, Informal Care, and Grassroots Sports Clubs; Stephen Crossley
Chapter 17. Youth Work During Covid Lockdowns; Alison Ní Charraighe, Kelly Coates, Shannon Devine, and Elisha Sanchez
Section 6. Final commentary
Chapter 18. Childhood and Care in the Time of Coronavirus, a Commentary; Rachel Rosen