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Arts and crafts as an educational strategy and coping mechanism for Republic of Korea and United States parents during the COVID‑19 pandemic Meera Choi1 · Hannah Tessler1 · Grace Kao1 Accepted: 9 October 2020 © UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning and Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing stay-at-home orders have shifted family lives worldwide. Government regulations about social distancing and isolation have resulted in parents/carers and children spending most of their time together in private spaces. During the northern hemisphere spring 2020 semester, most childcare and school systems closed and parents had to dramatically modify their balance between work and home life. Using data from consumer reports, online parenting forums and blog posts, and Google Trends, the authors of this article explored how some parents have shifted towards cultural and creative enrichment as a resource to occupy their children during governmental stay-at-home directives in both the United States and the Republic of Korea. The authors found that arts and crafts and educational toy sales have increased, parents are sharing advice and resources for athome creative activities, and arts and cultural institutions have expanded their free online content. Finally, this article discusses whether the short-term stressors from COVID-19 might lead to long-term changes in parenting and sustained interest in these resources. The authors’ findings provide additional support for the importance of arts and humanities in the educational experience of children. Keywords arts and crafts · arts education · creative experience · parenting strategy · COVID-19
* Meera Choi [email protected] Hannah Tessler [email protected] Grace Kao [email protected] 1
Department of Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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Résumé Les activités artistiques et artisanales, une stratégie éducative et d’adaptation pour les parents en République de Corée et aux États-Unis pendant la pandémie de COVID-19 – La pandémie de COVID-19 et les ordres de confinement qu’elle a entraînés ont bouleversé la vie des familles dans le monde entier. Du fait des mesures de distanciation physique et d’isolement prises par les gouvernements, les enfants et les parents/les personnes chargées de s’occuper d’eux ont passé la majeure partie du temps ensemble, dans des espaces privés. Pendant le printemps 2020 de l’hémisphère nord, la plupart des services de garde d’enfants et des établissements scolaires ont fermé, et les parents ont dû modifier considérablement l’équilibre travail-famille. En s’appuyant sur des informations recueillies dans des rapports sur les consommateurs, dans des forums en ligne et des billets publiés dans des blogs sur la parentalité, et sur une analyse des tendances de Google Trends, les auteures de cet article ont examiné comment certains parents ont fait de l’enrichissement culturel et créatif une ressource pour occuper leurs enfants durant le confinement ordonné par les gouverne
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