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Living Well in the Aftermath of Separation and Divorce: The Role of Teachers, Schools, and Early Childhood Services
Living Well in a World Worth Living in for All, Volume 2: Enacting Praxis for a Just and Sustainable Future, pp.117-132
Springer Nature Singapore
2024
Abstract
Separation and divorce have become common phenomena across the world. There has been much research reporting the stress factors of parents/carers during the process of separation and divorce and the impact this has on children. However, there is little research that investigates the intersection between families experiencing separation and divorce and teachers, schools, and early childhood services. This chapter explores parents’ aspirations for their family in the aftermath of separation and divorce and their experiences of communication and collaboration with their children’s teachers, schools, and early childhood services in assisting them to realise these aspirations to live well. Data for this project came from an interview study with 12 mothers who discussed their perceptions of their communication and collaboration with their children’s teachers during the process of their separation and divorce. While some parents described the communication and collaboration with their children’s teachers and schools as enabling their family to live well, other parents shared stories where the practices of teachers and the school or early childhood service constrained their wellbeing and adjustment to their changed family circumstances. Parents provided suggestions of practices that teachers, schools, and early childhood services could engage to support their children and family to promote wellbeing.
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- Title
- Living Well in the Aftermath of Separation and Divorce: The Role of Teachers, Schools, and Early Childhood Services
- Authors
- Linda Mahony - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Education and Tertiary Access
- Contributors
- Kristin Elaine Reimer (Editor) - Monash UniversitySally Windsor (Editor) - University of GothenburgKathleen Mahon (Editor) - The University of QueenslandMervi Kaukko (Editor) - Tampere UniversityStephen Kemmis (Editor) - Charles Sturt University
- Publication details
- Living Well in a World Worth Living in for All, Volume 2: Enacting Praxis for a Just and Sustainable Future, pp.117-132
- Publisher
- Springer Nature Singapore
- Date published
- 2024
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-981-97-1848-1_9; 10.1007/978-981-97-1848-1
- ISBN
- 9789819718481
- Copyright note
- This book is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Education and Tertiary Access
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991046398102621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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