Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Ethics and Education
- The Cambridge Handbook of Ethics and Education
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Traditions in Ethics and Education
- Part II Ethics and Education in Practice
- Part III Emerging Ethical Pathways and Frameworks
- 28 Defining Moral Responsibility for School Leaders in Times of Democratic Crisis
- 29 Convivialism, Interdependence, and Education
- 30 New Existentialism
- 31 Antiracist Moral and Civic Education
- 32 A Decolonial Feminist Perspective
- 33 Ethics and Mindful Leadership in Education
- 34 Ethics as a Field Discipline in the Classroom
- 35 Centering an Environmental Ethic in Climate Crisis
- 36 Ethical Inquiry in Educational Research
- 37 Education and the Technological Horizon
- 38 Teaching in Credal Deep Pluralism
- 39 A Pragmatic Approach to Ethics in Education
- 40 Spectatorship, Black Bodies, and Urban Education
- Index
- References
32 - A Decolonial Feminist Perspective
Saving Ethics of Care from White Saviorism
from Part III - Emerging Ethical Pathways and Frameworks
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2024
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Ethics and Education
- The Cambridge Handbook of Ethics and Education
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Traditions in Ethics and Education
- Part II Ethics and Education in Practice
- Part III Emerging Ethical Pathways and Frameworks
- 28 Defining Moral Responsibility for School Leaders in Times of Democratic Crisis
- 29 Convivialism, Interdependence, and Education
- 30 New Existentialism
- 31 Antiracist Moral and Civic Education
- 32 A Decolonial Feminist Perspective
- 33 Ethics and Mindful Leadership in Education
- 34 Ethics as a Field Discipline in the Classroom
- 35 Centering an Environmental Ethic in Climate Crisis
- 36 Ethical Inquiry in Educational Research
- 37 Education and the Technological Horizon
- 38 Teaching in Credal Deep Pluralism
- 39 A Pragmatic Approach to Ethics in Education
- 40 Spectatorship, Black Bodies, and Urban Education
- Index
- References
Summary
Drawing on the research of scholars from both within and outside the field of education, this chapter explores how care ethics can be conceived as permitting and even enabling white saviorism in the teaching context. The author appeals to perspectives offered by the scholarship of decolonial feminists to clarify the morally troubling nature of “care” when a teacher’s care contributes to devalorizing the cultural wealth, history, knowledge systems, and ways of being of minoritized and marginalized students. However, convinced that care ethics still confers invaluable moral worth on the teaching practice, the author highlights the effort of scholars from the traditions of critical race theory in prescribing “critical care” as a teaching praxis.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Ethics and Education , pp. 676 - 692Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024
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