New ISOTIS chapter: Construction of Schooling Time as Part of Mothers’ Identities

ISOTIS researcher Lyudmila Nurse publishes chapter Construction of Schooling Time as Part of Mothers’ Identities in Springer book Frontiers in Time Research / Einfuhrung in die interdisziplinare, edited by Elisabeth Schilling and Maggie O'Neill.

The chapter approaches the nature of time associated with the school routine as part of mothers’ identities and their distinctive parenting styles. The mothers’ narratives are analysed from the perspective of their personal experiences that are embedded in biographical reflections of their own schooling in the past and expectations for their children’s future. The time of schooling is understood as exploratory, family time, a time of strengthening emotional bonds between mother and child and mothers’ identities and parenting. The analysis contributes to understanding of structuring (constructing) of schooling time as deeply rooted in mothers’ biographical experience and their meaning of “family time”. Analysis in this chapter is based on a set of auto-biographical interviews with mothers with pre-school and primary school age children conducted by the author in the ISOTIS project (ISOTIS-“Inclusive Education and Social Support to tackle Inequalities in Society” EC Horizon -2020 project, grant agreement No.727069.) in the North West of England in 2018.