From Care Ethics to Care Writing

Multimodal Literacies for Expanding Care in Complicated Times

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ID6417422
AuthorsAva Becker (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, corresponding author), Christie Schultz (0000-0002-9265-0179, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada), Claudia Eppert (0000-0002-8419-4118, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), Robert Piazza (Edmonton Public Schools, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), Alexandra Olsvik (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), Josh Ann Chartrand (Edmonton Public Schools, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
Year2025
Volume81
Issue4
Pages351-371
Publication date2025-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Modern Language Review/ La Revue canadienne des langues vivantes (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-4506 • E-ISSN: 1710-1131
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.3138/cmlr-06_schultz
OpenAlexW7113897674
LanguageEN
References cited34

This article focuses on research into care writing, as we took it up in collaboration with teacher-researchers in three high school English language arts classrooms in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Drawing on feminist and posthumanist perspectives, the research engaged high school teachers and students in “complicated conversations” ( Pinar, 2019 ) about care that is oriented towards self, others, and the world in relation to societal, cultural, historical, and political contexts. By conceptualizing care writing in collaboration with students and teachers, the article explores an aesthetic and educationally entangled enactment of care ethics researched through multimodal literacy activities. In doing so, care writing became care creation, fostering social and emotional learning, well-being/becoming, and a sense of responsibility and relationality with and beyond humans. This article aims to develop these preliminary conceptualizations by foregrounding one teacher-researcher’s experience of naming and engaging her students in the concept of care through writing processes and practices, including multimodal and multilingual research-creation, in her classroom

Ethics of care · Foregrounding · Literacy · Relation (database · Social care · The arts · Literacy, Media, and Education · Multilingual Education and Policy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

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