Scholarship - Care Theory
What is "Care Theory"?
- "An ethics of care is a theoretical account of what ethics is and how it functions in human lives. Care is, for care theory, the heart of ethics because it is in caring relationships that we become capable of being ethical agents. It is in giving and receiving care that we act as ethical agents, and it is structuring human life to protect, preserve, and enhance care that we create an ethical world. Moreover, care theorists have argued that care is always embodied and contextualized, because care always begins with personal relationships, though it is certainly not limited to purely personal relationships."--Clarence Joldersma
Books
Patrice M. Buzzanell, Helen Sterk, Lynn H. Turner, eds. Gender in Applied Communication Contexts. Sage Publications, 2004.Simona Goi. Agonal Politics: A Model for Democratic Engagement.This book is under development.
Ruth Groenhout. Connected Lives: Human Nature and an Ethics of Care. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004.
Helen Sterk, Carla Hay, Alice Kehoe, Krista Ratcliffe, and Leona Vande Vusse. Who's Having This Baby? Michigan State University Press, 2002.
Articles
Patrice M. Buzzanell, Rebecca Meisenbach, Robyn Remke, Helen Sterk, and Lynn H. Turner. “Positioning Gender as Fundamental in Applied Communication Research.” Eds. Larry Frey and Kenneth Cisna. Handbook of Applied Communication Research. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (forthcoming).
Janel M. Curry. “Contested Ocean Spaces: Great Barrier Island, New Zealand.” Focus 48, no. 4 (2006):25-30.
________. “A Vision of Community and Land.” Creation Care: A Christian Environmental Quarterly 20 (Winter 2003): 12-13.
________. “Care Theory and 'Caring' Systems of Agriculture.” Agriculture and Human Values 19, no. 2 (2002): 119-31.
________. “Industrial hog farms vs. God's desire for shalom.” Creation Care: A Christian Environmental Quarterly 15 (Fall 2001): 12-13.
Christiana De Groot. “Christiana's Progress," Perspectives 16, no. 2 (Fall 2001): 8-13.
Ana Garner, Helen Sterk, and Shawn Adams. “Narrative Analysis of Sexual Etiquette In Teenage Magazines.” 3rd ed. In Rhetorical Criticism, edited by Sonja K. Foss. Waveland Press, 2004: 118-135.
Clarence Joldersma. “Pedagogy of the Other: A Levinasian approach to the teacher-student relationship.” In Philosophy of Education Society Yearbook 2001. Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society-University of Illinois (2002).
________. “Educating for Social Justice: Revisiting Stronks & Blomberg’s Idea of Responsive Discipleship.” Journal of Education and Christian Belief 5, no. 2 (Fall 2001), 105-17.
Helen Sterk. "Daughters Becoming Mothers." In a book edited by Alice Deakins and Rebecca Lockridge. Seeking a publisher.
Helen Sterk and Rebecca Kallemeyn. “Women belong in the . . . Pulpit: Family and Professional Tensions in the Lives of Southern Baptist Women Pastors.” Eds. Lynn H. Turner and Richard West. The Family Communication Sourcebook. Sage Publications, 2006.
Conference Presentations
Randall Buursma. “The Drama of Education: Crafting an Ethical Practice. Or Does it Make Sense to Use Differentiated Learning in my Classroom From an Ethical Perspective Given all the Things I Must do, the Limited Resources in Which to do Them, and my Human Shortcomings?” Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Tri-Conference. February 24, 2001.
Janel Curry. Presentations at numerous universities through the Christian Scholars Program out of Notre Dame. October 22, 2001.
________. "Caring Systems of Agriculture." American Scientific Affiliation Meeting, July 2001.
Christiana De Groot. "Was Rosa Parks Proud?” The Michigan Academy Meeting, March 2001.
Simona Goi. "Care and the Agon." The Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Meeting in Chicago, April 2001.
Clarence Joldersma. “Beyond Technology: Community and Precarious Pedagogy.” The conference of With Heart and Mind held at the Kings University College (Edmonton, AB), May 2001.