Questioning Care in Higher Education

Questioning Care in Higher Education

by Sally Baker and Rachel Burke
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 27/09/2023

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This book explores questions of care in higher education. Using Joan Tronto’s seven signs that institutions are not caring well, the authors examine whether students and staff consider universities to be caring institutions. As such, they outline how universities systematically, structurally, and actively ‘undercare’ when it comes to supporting students and staff, a phenomenon which was amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on scholarly ideas from the sociology of care, higher education, social justice, and feminist critique, and in dialogue with empirical insights gathered with people who work and study in universities in Australia, South Africa, and the UK, the book questions why people care, as well as why adopting a caring position in higher education can be viewed as radical. The authors conclude by asking what we can do to counter that view by thinking carefully about the purpose, power, and plurality of care, before imagining how we can create more caring universities.

ISBN:
9783031418297
9783031418297
Category:
Higher & further education
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
27-09-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing
Rachel Burke

Rachel Burke is a textile artist and designer from Brisbane, Australia. Rachel works as senior womenswear designer for Universal Store, fashion stylist for frankie magazine, DIY blogger for Bonds and costume designer for band The Grates.

Rachel is regular craft captain for Splendour in the Grass music festival and has undertaken several large-scale creative projects, such as her year-long dress-a-day project, i make. you wear it.com and her recent Apomogy pompom/apologies web and workshop project, apomogy.com. Currently Rachel is working on collaborations with the Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art and Etsy.

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