ABSTRACT

Over the last few months, the sociological experiment generated by lockdowns has triggered a plethora of educational debates and research publications. However, the care work enacted by teachers has rarely been at the core of these analyses. As other scholars have previously highlighted, caring in teaching requires not only ‘love’ but also ‘labour’. This means that it entails emotional, social, material and political costs, which are often unacknowledged or devalued. In this study, we delve into the experiences of a small group of caring teachers in Spain to explore the nature and effect of their care work during lockdown. Despite decades of feminist studies showing the value of care work, the stories of the teachers interviewed show the lack of recognition of caring in teaching. The article concludes with a call to problematise the idea of caring in teaching as a labour of love.

摘要

在过去的几个月里，封锁引发的社会学实验引发了大量的教育辩论和研究出版物。然而，教师制定的照料工作很少成为这些分析的核心。正如其他学者先前强调的那样，教学中的关怀不仅需要“爱”，还需要“劳动”。这意味着它会带来情感、社会、物质和政治成本，而这些成本通常未被承认或贬值。在这项研究中，我们深入研究了西班牙一小群有爱心的教师的经历，以探索他们在锁定期间的护理工作的性质和效果。尽管数十年的女权主义研究显示了护理工作的价值，但受访教师的故事表明，教学中缺乏对关怀的认可。