TY - JOUR
T1 - Kindness as a practice of Kittay's 'doulia' in higher education
T2 - caring for student carers during COVID-19 and beyond
AU - Overgaard, Charlotte
AU - Mackaway, Jacqueline
PY - 2022/2
Y1 - 2022/2
N2 - Recognising dependency as a fundamental aspect of existence and activating Kittay’s reciprocity principle, ‘doulia’, we investigate the impacts of COVID-19 on student carers at an Australian university, to what extent teaching staff care for student carers and which pedagogies and teaching practices aid student carers. Analysing the experiences of social science students shortly after the lockdown in 2020, we find that pedagogies of kindness and flexibility support student carers. We call on teaching staff to recognise students’ inevitable dependencies and commit to pedagogies of kindness.
AB - Recognising dependency as a fundamental aspect of existence and activating Kittay’s reciprocity principle, ‘doulia’, we investigate the impacts of COVID-19 on student carers at an Australian university, to what extent teaching staff care for student carers and which pedagogies and teaching practices aid student carers. Analysing the experiences of social science students shortly after the lockdown in 2020, we find that pedagogies of kindness and flexibility support student carers. We call on teaching staff to recognise students’ inevitable dependencies and commit to pedagogies of kindness.
KW - access to higher education
KW - doulia
KW - pedagogy of kindness
KW - student carers
KW - widening particiapation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85126775866&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1332/239788221X16330155145617
DO - 10.1332/239788221X16330155145617
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85126775866
SN - 2397-8821
VL - 6
SP - 229
EP - 245
JO - International Journal of Care and Caring
JF - International Journal of Care and Caring
IS - 1-2
ER -