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Record Nr.

UNINA9910746952703321

Autore

Baker Sally

Titolo

Questioning care in higher education : resisting definitions as radical / / Sally Baker, Rachel Burke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

3-031-41829-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

BurkeRachel

Disciplina

378

Soggetti

Education, Higher

College students - Care

Universities and colleges - Employees - Care

Educació superior

Estudiants universitaris

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Part 1: Setting out the context -- What is care? -- What do universities care about? -- What hinders care in higher education? -- Part 2: Where does care fit in higher education? -- Are universities caring institutions? -- Why care? -- Why is caring considered radical in higher education? -- Part 3: Moving towards a more caring university -- Rethinking institutional care in higher education -- Imagining more caring universities.

Sommario/riassunto

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.