RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 “Reinventing Ourselves” and Reimagining Education: Everyday Learning and Life Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
JF Harvard Educational Review
JO herp
FD Harvard Educational Press
SP 413
OP 436
DO 10.17763/1943-5045-92.3.413
VO 92
IS 3
A1 ORELLANA, MARJORIE FAULSTICH
A1 LIU, LU
A1 ÁNGELES, SOPHIA L.
YR 2022
UL http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/92/3/413.abstract
AB In this “ethnographically-oriented” study, authors Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Lu Liu, and Sophia L. Ángeles examine the learning experiences expressed in the diaries of thirty-five families from diverse ethnicities/races, cultures, national origins, and social classes living in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. Exploring participants’ reflections on the learning they engaged in during this time and attending to what families prioritized as they reorganized their daily lives, the authors identify several common themes that emerged as participants figured out new ways of “reinventing themselves” during this unprecedented time by centering their cultural heritage, creativity, health, well-being, and connections to nature and to others and by using technology in creative and innovative ways. In offering the life lessons and richness of learning the families experienced as a counter to the current focus on pandemic learning loss, this study has implications for reimagining education in culturally sustaining ways.