Posthuman and Care Ethics for Re-Imagining Higher Education Pedagogies

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium includes scholars from three countries - the United States, Cyprus and South Africa, who use the political ethics of care and posthuman/feminist new materialist ethics to consider how higher education pedagogies might be rethought and enacted. The four papers contribute to the conference theme on rethinking public education in the current political climate which has exacerbated inequalities. The papers use different aspects of relational ethics to think in expansive and creative ways about higher education pedagogies. The symposium uses novel philosophical and theoretical concepts to make a contribution to Division J’s call to ‘broaden and deepen our understanding of the complexities of postsecondary education today’, particularly for those who have been marginalised in the system.

Sub Unit

• Division J - Postsecondary Education / Division J - Section 4: Faculty, Curriculum, and Teaching

Chair

• Joan Tronto, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Papers

• Aesthetic Wit(h)nessing and the Political Ethics of Care: Generating Solidarity and Trust in Pedagogical Encounters - Nike Irene Romano, Cape Peninsula University of Technology

• Trust(ing) in a Qualitative Inquiry Course: Speculative Ethics and Matters of Care - Candace Ross Kuby, University of Missouri - Columbia; Rebecca C. Christ, Florida International University

• Immanent Ethics and Transgressive Phantasmagoria as Models for Socially Just Pedagogies - Delphi Carstens

• Toward a "Response-able" Pedagogy Across Higher Education Institutions in Post-Apartheid South Africa: An Ethico-Political Analysis - Vivienne Grace Bozalek, University of the Western Cape; Michalinos Zembylas, The Open University of Cyprus

Discussant

• Mindy Blaise, Edith Cowan University