Posthuman and Political Care Ethics for Reconfiguring Higher Education Pedagogies

Vivienne Bozalek, Michalinos Zembylas, Joan Tronto, Vivienne Bozalek, Michalinos Zembylas, Joan Tronto, Joan C. Tronto, Vivienne Bozalek, Michalinos Zembylas, Joan C. Tronto

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9780367619060
• eBook ISBN: 9781000218213
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Behavioural Management

This book makes an important contribution to ongoing debates about the epistemological, ethical, ontological and political implications of relational ethics in higher education. By furthering theoretical developments on the ethics of care and critical posthumanism, it speaks to contemporary concerns for more socially just possibilities and enriched understandings of higher education pedagogies.

The book considers how the political ethics of care and posthuman/new feminist materialist ethics can be diffracted through each other and how this can have value for thinking about higher education pedagogies. It includes ideas on ethics which push those boundaries that have previously served educational researchers and proposes new ways of conceptualising relational ethics. Chapters consider the entangled connections of the linguistic, social, material, ethical, political and biological in relation to higher education pedagogies.

This topical and transdisciplinary book will be of great interest for academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of posthuman and care ethics, social justice in education, higher education, and educational theory and policy.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Care as a methodology: reading Natalie Jeremijenko and Vinciane Despret diffractively
• 2 Towards a “response-able” pedagogy across higher education institutions in post-apartheid South Africa: an ethico-political analysis
• 3 Learning and teaching in every moment: a posthuman critical pedagogy of care
• 4 Relation(al) matters: vulnerable pedagogies, care and carriance as (c)air-ful(l)ness in higher education
• 5 Aesthetic wit(h)nessing and the political ethics of care: generating solidarity and trust in pedagogical encounters
• 6 An ethics of immanence: posthumanism and the politics of care
• 7 Slowing down with non-human matter: the contribution of feminist new materialism to slow scholarship
• 8 Care ethics and relationalities in a project of reimagining scholarship in/through feminist decolonial pedagogy and research
• 9 Response-able digital storytelling to reimagine higher education classroom practices
• 10 The ethics and politics of care: relationality, responsibility and hope in post-secondary art education
• Afterword Response-ability and responsibility: using feminist new materialisms and care ethics to cope with impatience in higher education
• Index