Works informing and in conversation with this presentation—

Contemporary discourse

We have decided to be in conversation with:

Labor in [higher] education

  • Brons, A., Riley, C., Henninger, E., & Yin, C. (2022). Precarity doesn’t care: Precarious employment as a dysfunctional practice in libraries. In S. Acadia (Ed.), Libraries as Dysfunctional Organizations and Workplaces (pp. 95-108). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003159155-4
  • Aronowitz, S. & Gregory, K. (2016). Jobless Higher Ed: Revisited, An Interview with Stanley Aronowitz. Workplace, 28, 130-135. https://doi.org/10.14288/workplace.v0i28.186214
    • Aronowitz argues that there is a four-tier system in higher education, with adjuncts, part-timers, and other contingent workers making up the fourth tier. He suggests that fourth-tier workers should form their own organizations to better represent the needs of part-time workers. While Aronowitz is talking about separate bargaining units for fourth-tier workers, we have also seen and experienced the need for additional spaces for professional growth. Adjunct-led and adjunct-only programming has been our response to the need for spaces dedicated to addressing adjunct-specific needs and issues. – Jo
  • Schwartz, J. M. (2014). Resisting the Exploitation of Contingent Faculty Labor in the Neoliberal University: The Challenge of Building Solidarity between Tenured and Non-Tenured Faculty. New Political Science, 36 (4), 504-522. https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2014.954803
    • How can both tenured and non-tenured workers integrate information about our working conditions and those of our colleagues into the classroom and into professional development spaces?
  • Watters, A. (2018). Invisible Labor and Digital Utopias. Hack Education. http://hackeducation.com/2018/05/04/cuny-labor-open
  • Zheng, R. (2018). Precarity is a Feminist Issue: Gender and Contingent Labor in the Academy. Hypatia, 33(2), 235-255. doi:10.1111/hypa.12401

Care ethics in Education

The work of educational theorist Nel Noddings and collaborators–

  1. Noddings. (1984). Caring, a feminine approach to ethics & moral education. University of California Press.
  2. Noddings. (1992). The challenge to care in schools : an alternative approach to education. Teachers College Press.
    • A second edition was published in 2005.
  3. Gordon, S., Benner, P., & Noddings, N. (Eds.). (1996). Caregiving: Readings in knowledge, practice, ethics, and politics. University of Pennsylvania Press.
  4. Katz, Noddings, N., & Strike, K. A. (1999). Justice and caring : the search for common ground in education. Teachers College Press.

Recommended! The following is an excellent entry point into care ethics in teaching philosophy (and more!):


*”Bibliography,” by Cailean Cooney and Jo Thompson has a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.