Caring in an Unjust World: Negotiating Borders and Barriers in Schools

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.

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

About the Author :
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.

Review :
"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