Main description:

*Takes a unique approach to navigating and surviving challenges in higher education and offers valuable lessons for the pandemic era and beyond.
*Offers learning through story, presenting a range of theoretical and personal perspectives with contributors sharing their own approaches to self-care and compassion.
*An essential resource for students and professionals working in all areas of higher education.

Contents:

1. Caring for self and others through challenging times: Interrupting the pandemic with compassion and kindness in higher education Section 1: Kindness to self during COVID-19 2. "It be's that way sometime": Mindfully recalling our time during COVID-19 3. Generating the place of self-compassion in higher education: An academic place of belonging as a catalyst of the COVID-19 pandemic Section 2: Building compassion in our teaching during a pandemic 4. Cultivating compassion in higher education: International autoethnographic approach to online teaching during COVID-19 5. "It's gonna be alright": Self-compassion for us and students during COVID-19 6. Cultivating a language of compassion in higher education Section 3: The personal and professional blur: Work-life family balance with COVID-19 7. The personal and professional blur: Work-life family balance with COVID-19 8. Spaces to care and places to share: Fostering a sense of belonging during the global pandemic through digitally mediated activity 9. Ethical responsibility in the struggle between the public and the private space: Challenges and possibilities in teacher education during the pandemic