Caring in an Unjust World

Negotiating Borders and Barriers in Schools

Edited by Deborah Eaker-Rich & Jane A. Van Galen

Subjects: Foundations Of Education
Paperback : 9780791428009, 246 pages, January 1996
Hardcover : 9780791427996, 246 pages, January 1996

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Table of contents

INTRODUCTION
DEBORAH EAKER-RICH AND JANE A. VAN GALEN

PART ONE. DILEMMAS OF CAREGIVERS

1.   Caring and the Open Moment in Educational Leadership A Historical Perspective
JACKIE M. BLOUNT

2.   Justice or Caring Pedagogical Implications for Gender Equity
JAN STEREITMATTER

3.   Uncommon Caring Male Primary Teachers as Constructed and Constrained
JAMES R. KING

4.   Forbidden to Care Gay and Lesbian Teachers
RITA M. KISSEN

5.   Understanding Caring in Context Negotiating Borders and Barriers
JACI WEBB-DEMPSEY, BRUCE WILSON, DICKSON CORBETT, AND RHONDA MORDECAI-PHILLIPS

PART TWO. DILEMMAS OF CREATING SCHOOLS AS CENTERS OF CARE

6.   Caring and Continuity The Demise of Caring in an African-American Community, One Consequence of School Desegregation
VAN DEMPSEY AND GEORGE NOBLIT

7.   Interpersonal Caring in the "Good" Segregated Schooling of African-American Children Evidence from the Case of Caswell County Training School
EMILIE V. SIDDLE WALKER

8.   Caring in Community The Limitations of Compassion in Facilitating Diversity
JANE A. VAN GALEN

9.   Caring in One Urban High School Thoughts on the Interplay Among Race, Class, and Gender
LYNN G. BECK AND REBECCA L. NEWMAN
10.   Caring as Empowerment School Collaboration and Community Agency
CARMEN I. MERCADO AND MEMBERS OF THE BRONX MIDDLE SCHOOL COLLABORATIVE
Conclusion
DEBORAH EAKER-RICH, JANE A. VAN GALEN, AND ELLEN L. TIMOTHY
CONTRIBUTORS
Index

Looks at the ways in which social structures and relationships within schools define, enable, or constrain an ethic of caring, especially for historically marginalized groups of students.

Description

The contributors to this book tap into an important, but largely unexamined perspective: examining how social structures and relationships within schools help to define, enable, or constrain an ethic of care.

This sociological, critical perspective is used to examine K–12 schooling, focusing upon grounded qualitative studies of student groups currently and/or historically considered marginal or for whom school presents significant barriers (i. e., African Americans and Hispanics; gays and lesbians; and women). The authors have grappled with the difficulties and opportunities presented by considering multiple perspectives of caring and what that means to those living within schools.

Deborah Eaker-Rich is Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at North Carolina State University. Jane A. Van Galen is Associate Professor and Program Director in the Education Program at The University of Washington at Bothell. She is coeditor of Home Schooling: Political, Historical, and Pedagogical Perspectives.

Reviews

"The topics covered in this book are crucial to the viability of the care ethic as a teaching ethic and as part of an institutional ethic. Unless educators can perceive a practical application of caring to dealing with the range of individuals, groups, and communities they work with, the care ethic remains a kind of hothouse flower, living only in singular relationships protected from most of the world. " — Stefan J. Broidy, Southwest Missouri State University

"What is of particular value in these essays, is the questions of caring that the authors engage in, first of themselves in their respective relationships, and then of the institutions. It is a shift from what is assumed to what is learned and reflected upon in experience. Also of value is the willingness to look deeper and try to gain a better understanding of the complexity of care—peeling away all the personal, societal, and institutionalized layers. " — Susan T. Danin, Research for Better Schools