Centering a Pedagogy of Care in the Pandemic

Authors

Gita R. Mehrotra, Portland State UniversityFollow

Published In

Qualitative Social Work

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-1-2021

Subjects

Social Work education, Pedagogy

Abstract

This essay is a reflexive account of my experience of teaching a social justice course during the pandemic. Specifically, I reflect on how centering a pedagogy of care within the course provided a framework for me to be responsive to student needs while also disrupting dominant culture and neoliberal forces in academia. In particular, I highlight sharing power and co-creating meaning, community care, and use of creativity and mindfulness as disruptions to dominant paradigms that I employed in my class that were impactful in the context of the pandemic. I also reflect on how this pedagogical praxis of care has been an instructive and anchoring experience for me as an educator and will impact my teaching going forward.

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Copyright (c) 2021 The Authors

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Locate the Document

https://doi.org/10.1177/1473325020981079

DOI

10.1177/1473325020981079

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/35304

Citation Details

Mehrotra, G. R. (2021). Centering a pedagogy of care in the pandemic. Qualitative Social Work, 20(1-2), 537–543. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473325020981079