Incorporating care into our pedagogy may seem like a common sense idea, but, in reality, the concept of care is complex and often fraught. How do you define care (love? compassion? kindness?) and what does it actually mean to care for students? (or our colleagues? or ourselves?) What do you do when caring approaches seem at odds with your own instincts? Or when different students require different kinds of care? Or when your institution encourages you to be caring but doesn’t necessarily return the favor?
In this module hopefully you’ll have a chance to unpack the word and think more deeply about your own positioning of care in your teaching.