A Decolonial, Intersectional Approach to Disrupting Whiteness, Neoliberalism, and Patriarchy in Western Early Childhood Education and Care

Butler, Alana; Teasley, Cathryn; Sánchez-Blanco, Concepción

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“…This includes the way care for the environment and resistance to climate change is informed by left-wing praxis and direct action, that may involve sabotaging critical infrastructure to the coal industry (Visontay, 2021) or occupations and sit-ins of ancient forests (Alberro, 2018). I am equally motivated by approaches to care that are decolonial and anticolonial and sit alongside designs and programs of solidarity actions (Butler, et al, 2020), and Indigenous notions of care for Land and care for Country that may play out as a physical engagement through sustainable forms of land management, and concurrently may speak to an entire way of knowing and being underpinned by an Indigenous ontology (Suchet-Pearson, et al, 2013). In my engagement with care, I also rely on the ways in which care has been described in aspects of abolitionist thinking and practices in the ongoing struggles against the prison industrial complex (Anon, 2008), and the way care manifests as commitments to pre-figurative politics and mutual aid in violent struggles against fascist cadres (Apoifis, 2017a).…”

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Caring for authors and activists in the classroom: An activist-caring teaching approach

Apoifis¹

2022

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Neoliberal capitalist intrusions into university classrooms are pervasive, incessant, and pernicious. How we perform and enact care in classrooms is shaped by this prevailing ideology. However, its ideological and material reach is not absolute. Using insights from radical pedagogies, militant ethnographic, and narrative approaches, I reimagine and reconfigure care in the classroom by implementing an activist-caring teaching approach. I discuss the ways in which I practice and perform a relationship of care to writers and activists whose work and struggles I teach in my classes, struggles of resistance, emancipation, and revolution. Specifically, I lay out my own classroom strategies that enact this relationship, interactions with people some of whom are dead and many of whom I have never met. I argue that this is important for the practice of solidarity and radical notions of care and offers a novel way to resist and refuse neoliberal intrusions into university teaching spaces.

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Caring for authors and activists in the classroom: An activist-caring teaching approach

Apoifis¹

2022

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Caring for authors and activists in the classroom: An activist-caring teaching approach

2022

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Neoliberal capitalist intrusions into university classrooms are pervasive, incessant, and pernicious.How we perform and enact care in classrooms is shaped by this prevailing ideology. However, its ideological and material reach is not absolute. Using insights from radical pedagogies, militant ethnographic, and narrative approaches, I reimagine and reconfigure care in the classroom by implementing an activist-caring teaching approach. I discuss the ways in which I practice and perform a relationship of care to writers and activists whose work and struggles I teach in my classes, struggles of resistance, emancipation, and revolution. Specifically, I lay out my own classroom strategies that enact this relationship, interactions with people some of whom are dead and many of whom I have never met. I argue that this is important for the practice of solidarity and radical notions of care and offers a novel way to resist and refuse neoliberal intrusions into university teaching spaces.

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A Decolonial, Intersectional Approach to Disrupting Whiteness, Neoliberalism, and Patriarchy in Western Early Childhood Education and Care

Cited by 2 publications

References 16 publications

Caring for authors and activists in the classroom: An activist-caring teaching approach

Caring for authors and activists in the classroom: An activist-caring teaching approach

Caring for authors and activists in the classroom: An activist-caring teaching approach

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