Africana Womanism as Radical Ethics of Care in Education

• In Event: Engaging an Ethics of Care in Crises and Classrooms

Abstract

Ethics of care in education have a long history of being framed from a one-on-one, individualistic, Eurocentric perspective that is not representative of the diverse ways children, families, and communities interact with schooling and education stakeholders. This paper presents an alternative framework for an African womanist ethic of care in education. Drawing from over 15 tenets of African Womanism, this framework addresses ways of caring that presuppose individual caring as neutral and situates collective caring as agentive social justice.

Author

• Jean Swindle, East Tennessee State University