“I just love helping people” - Ethic of Care by Latino Men in HESA Graduate Programs

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Friday 7:45 am - Gold 3
  In Roundtable Session: Braiding Care and Cultural Wealth: Latinx Praxis, Mentorship, and Institutional Reckoning in Academia

Abstract

This qualitative narrative inquiry study examined how Latino men enrolled in higher education/student affairs administration master's level graduate programs make meaning of and actualize an ethic of care. The participants’ narratives were examined through the ethic of care framework (Tronto, 1998). The preliminary findings describe how gender informs ethic of care: Caring about-assuming responsibility; Caring for-acting accordingly, Caregiving-responding to need, and Care Receiving-present and future. Recommendations include the importance of graduate programs to support and serve Latino graduate students through an identity and value-centric curriculum, educational opportunities, and curriculum that allow Latino men to unlearn socialized masculinity schemas and engage in an ethic of care feminist approach to actualize resistance, reflection, and relational accountability for dismantling harmful patriarchal systems.

Authors

• Hermen Díaz, Buffalo State University - SUNY

• Lazaro Camacho, University of Rhode Island

• Diana Cervantes, University of Texas at Austin