Transnational Displays of Parenting and Caring For Elderly Parents

Abstract

This chapter is set up to incorporate Finch’s idea of ‘display’ to examine how migrant parents, adult migrant children, and close significant persons perform a set of actions to convey to each other and the society at large that these are family-doing activities. The authors sought to demonstrate that the concept of ‘display’ could be applied to analyze transnational practices of parenting and caring for elderly parents in a quantitative way. The chapter draws on the data from a quotabased survey (N = 304) of three types of transnational families: mother-away and father-away with under-aged children living in Lithuania and adult child-away with elderly parents needing care living in Lithuania. The study was carried out in August 2018 as part of the research project ‘Global Migration and Lithuanian Family: Family Practices, Circulation of Care, and the Return Strategies’.

Interaction and collaboration in Lithuanian schools during COVID-19 pandemic distance learning

“…The research of Makarevičienė et al (2018) reveals that distance education in Lithuanian schools is usually limited to the implementation of technological solutions. This phenomenon is likely to be a consequence of convenient, low-challenge activities in traditional classrooms and a desire to move the traditional teaching model into a virtual environment.…”

“…With the emergence of new forms of distance learning, the availability of learning has increased, offering new learning content design, and learning activities as well as new principles of autonomous individualised learning (Teresevičienė et al, 2008(Teresevičienė et al, , 2015. During the last 2 decades, the number of educational institutions offering distance learning programmes and courses in Lithuania has increased (Vaičiūnaitė, 2012), but distance education in Lithuanian schools before the COVID-19 pandemic was limited to the implementation of technological solutions (Makarevičienė et al, 2018).…”