Care-full scholarship: what comes to mind (contributor reflections)

Beginning with Jingjing Guo, a number of our MOOC contributors give their reflections on what comes to mind when they reflect on care-full scholarship or care-full practice. Watch some or all of the following videos and then consider the questions at the bottom of the page.

'Care-full scholarship can't be defined. It has to be explored.' - Jingjing Go

'It is a way of being and a way of doing. It is an attitude and is definitely not a methodology or a toolbox that you apply.' - Dr Gloria Giambartolomei

'Care-full scholarship is really about... having a care-full relationship... a relationship that's really based on respect and gratitude.'

'Research is always necessarily an extractive process... And the way that I respond to that is I better make sure that I'm giving something back... And I also better make sure that I'm not taking anything that anyone isn't willing prepared to give to me or I'm not misinterpreting something.' - Imogen Humphris

'By engaging with places and with people they (researchers) often change themselves and they often change the place in which they are in.' - Prof Lummina G Horlings

'Being able to meet whoever else is in the relationship from a place of humility and respect for their way of being in the world which might not be my way. And also might not make any sense to me whatsoever.'

'For me care has to include repair.' - Dr Lucy Aphramor

'It's about general decency.' - Dr Geraldine Brown

'To care about something involves some sort of action.' - Prof Moya Kneafsey

'All of us have the capacity to love people and to be generous and to support people, but we don't necessarily have the right ways of doing things... Care for us is really knowing who we're talking to and trying to be really sensitive to what's going on.'

'Being care-full in your care is something we've had to really learn.' - Amy Berry

QUESTIONS:

• You have heard numerous definitions and examples of care-full scholarship and practice. Do any resonate with you?
• Do any challenge your own definition or help you frame your understanding of what care-full scholarship looks like in your particular context?