Critical Approaches To Care
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1. Understanding Care And Thinking With Care / Georgia Philip, Chrissie Rogers And Susie Weller -- Part I: Caring Within Educational Institutions -- Part 1 Summary: Caring Within Educational Institutions / Paulette Luff, Uthel Laurent, Val Gillies, Yvonne Robinson And Mabelle Victoria -- 2. Reclaiming Care In Early Childhood Education And Care / Paulette Luff -- 3. Revisiting Care In Schools: Exploring The Caring Experiences Of Disengaged Young People / Uthel Laurent -- 4. At Risk Pupils And The 'caring' Curriculum / Val Gillies And Yvonne Robinson -- 5. A Discourse Analytic Study Of Power As Caring Relations In Philippine University Classrooms / Mabelle Victoria -- Part Ii: Caring Amongst Communities And Networks -- Part Ii Summary: Caring Amongst Communities And Networks / Maxine Birch, Nina Nissen, Tracey Reynolds, Andrea Doucet, Natasha Mauthner And Linda Bell -- 6. A Different Way Of Caring? An Exploration Of Alternative Health Care Relationships / Maxine Birch And Nina Nissen -- 7. 'men's Business'?: Black Men's Caring Within Black-led Community Organisations / Tracey Reynolds -- 8. Tea And Tupperware: Mommy Blogging As Care, Work, And Consumption / Andrea Doucet And Natasha Mauthner -- 9. Researching 'care', Family And Neighbourhood In Tehran, Iran / Linda Bell -- Part Iii: Caring For And About Families -- Part Iii Summary: Caring For And About Families / Linda Nutt, Chrissie Rogers, Georgia Philip -- 10. Foster Care In Ambiguous Contexts: Competing Understandings Of Care / Linda Nutt -- 11. Intellectual Dsability And Mothering: An Engagement With Ethics Of Care And Emotional Work / Chrissie Rogers -- 12. Working At Post-divorce Family Life: The Feminist Ethics Of Care As A Framework For Exploring Fathering After Divorce Or Separation / Georgia Philip -- Part Iv: Caring Across The Life Course -- Part Iv Summary: Caring Across The Life-course / Susie Weller, Elisabetta Zontini And Jane Ribbens Mccarthy -- 13. Who Cares? Exploring The Shifting Nature Of Care An
Menrva's Summary
THE THESIS
This collection investigates the multifaceted nature of care as a social, political, and ethical practice across diverse institutional and personal contexts. The editors, Chrissie Rogers and Susie Weller, curate a series of scholarly contributions that challenge traditional, narrow definitions of care. By applying frameworks such as the ethics of care, the authors examine how care functions within educational systems, community networks, family structures, and throughout the human life course.
THE SCOPE MAP
What You Will Find
- Analysis of care dynamics within early childhood education and university classrooms.
- Examination of care practices in community-based organizations and digital spaces like mommy blogging.
- Case studies on foster care, intellectual disability, and post-divorce family life.
- Methodological approaches to researching care in diverse cultural settings, including Iran and the Philippines.
THE AUTHORITY PERSPECTIVE
Experts identify this volume as a significant contribution to the sociology of care, noting its interdisciplinary breadth and focus on power dynamics. Readers frequently highlight the academic density of the prose, making it a valuable resource for researchers and students in social policy and education.
Page Count:
227
Publication Date:
2012-01-01
Publisher:
Routledge
ISBN-10:
0415613299
ISBN-13:
9780203112083
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