We Take Care of Our Students: Private Universities and the Politics of Care in Egypt

Cantini, Daniele

doi:10.1080/17496535.2017.1300304

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“…Within the context of higher education, Nguyen, Zavoretti and Tronto (2017) speak about Cantini's (2017) study regarding the privatization of Egyptian higher education. Private universities cast themselves as caring institutions through practices such as performance ranking and quality assurance.…”

Section: Solidaritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Applying effective feedback principles to promote the ethics of care and justice during emergency remote teaching and learning in three chemical engineering modules

Roopchund,

Naidoo

2023

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The COVID-19 pandemic lockdown disrupted higher education practices and forced students and lecturers to rapidly migrate to emergency remote teaching and learning (ERT&L). Initially, ERT&L robustly focused on teaching and assessment to complete syllabi, without fully considering care and justice to students who were no longer consolidated in one location. During the lockdown, students were exposed to socio-economic plights, and mental health challenges, among others. Hence, this article aimed to consider how the pedagogical tool of effective feedback could promote the ethics of care and justice to support students during ERT&L. The feedback practices implemented during the lockdown were maintained after contact lectures resumed, and their effects were quantified to determine the overall impacts on optimizing T&L and ensuring a conducive learning environment- regardless of whether T&L occurs at university or remotely. Effective feedback practices, recommended by the literature, were applied by two lecturers within three undergraduate chemical engineering modules. Lecturer 1 adopted a blended learning approach in modules 1 and 2 before the lockdown, while lecturer 2 functioned as a full contact module. A quantitative research approach was adopted in which module and teaching evaluations were used to quantify the effects of the feedback interventions on T&L in the three modules. The results indicated an overall positive effect, with significant student satisfaction with the feedback interventions adopted from the literature to promote the ethics of care and justice during ERT&L. Based on the methodology and results, an empirical model is proposed to optimize any pedagogical intervention that education practitioners may strive to use to improve their assessment practices.

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Section: Solidaritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Applying effective feedback principles to promote the ethics of care and justice during emergency remote teaching and learning in three chemical engineering modules

Roopchund,

Naidoo

2023

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“…A great deal of empirical research demonstrates that the language we use models the society we are trying to establish and maintain. However, when caring is simply added to the dominant discourse, it can easily be turned into a form of paternalistic control, as reported in the case study of a private university in Egypt by Daniele Cantini (2017). For example, when students' needs are determined by external factors such as families' expectations or fears, adding caring vocabulary may become a mechanism of control 3 :…”

Section: Caring As An Alternative Path Not Something To Be Addedmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this paper, I aim to link Noddings' ethics of care to the role universities can play in human and sustainable development. A number of authors have done interesting fieldwork using an ethics of care perspective in university settings (see e.g., McBee, 2007;Bozalek, McMillan, Marshall, November, Daniels, & Sylvester, 2014;Scott, 2015;Done, Murphy & Knowler, 2016;Cantini, 2017;Motta & Bennett, 2018;Bergland, 2018;Lu, 2018). The paper poses the question of whether or not care ethics is something to be added to university policies.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Care Ethics in Universities: Beyond an Easy “Add and Stir” Solution

Verdera

2019

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El trabajo de Nel Noddings ha representado un profundo desafío para el pensamiento androcéntrico en filosofía de la educación. El documento plantea la cuestión de si la ética del cuidado podría agregarse a las políticas universitarias. Para lograr este objetivo, se explora si la incorporación de la ética del cuidado en las políticas universitarias transformaría la orientación de la investigación, la administración universitaria y la experiencia de aprendizaje en tu totalidad. Más adelante, el documento analiza las implicaciones del significado de la ética del cuidado de Noddings como un vía para abordar la moralidad aplicada a los entornos universitarios. Finalmente, el artículo concluye ofreciendo la ética del cuidado como una alternativa a las teorías éticas tradicionales en base a sus puntos fuertes que convergen en la posibilidad real de formar mejores adultos.

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“…The migrant labourers in urban China (Zavoretti 2017), the elderly residents of Papua New Guinea (von Poser 2017), and the university students in Egypt (Cantini 2017) are all embedded in social networks of family, kinship, friendship and community. Their actions are shaped as much by the notion of personal choice as by their awareness of mutual dependence within these social relations.…”

Section: Boundaries Of Carementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Accordingly, the party-state engages a wide spectrum of social organizations and market institutions in the provision of care, while emerging state welfare schemes operate either on the basis of user-fees, employment-based contributions or meanstested provision. In the same vein, privatization is taking place at the same time with the promotion of volunteering and NGO provision in the health sector of the Czech Republic (Read 2014) or the education sector of Egypt (Cantini 2017), which used to operate on the basis of universalist principles.…”

Section: Institutions Of Carementioning

confidence: 99%