UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AND MOTHERS: CONCILIATING ACADEMIC LIFE AND MOTHERHOOD IN TIMES OF REMOTE EDUCATION
Academic Life; Motherhood; Emergency Remote Teaching.
During Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT), female students and/or professors often had their virtual meetings interrupted by the demands of caring for their children and/or the elderly under their responsibility. In view of this, I set out to question in this dissertation how the adaptation to Remote Teaching has been for the portion of university students who are both women and mothers. To what extent has the Emergency Remote Teaching modality impacted the life dynamics of these students? After all, how are university students who are also mothers, now situated in the domestic environment, conciliating academic life and motherhood in the face of this new context? This is the problem that this ethnographic research aims to understand. Thus, this research intends to produce an ethnography with university students who are also mothers, seeking to make visible the processes of conciliation between academic life and motherhood experienced by these women especially in the period of Emergency Remote Teaching, contextualized in the light of the Covid-19 pandemic and social isolation. To this end, a virtual fieldwork was conducted between January and December 2021. And the interlocutions took place through dialogues in a Whatsapp group entitled "MÃES UNIVERSITÁRIAS" (UNIVERSITY MOTHERS), which was created for the purposes of this research.