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Learning to Care

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Doing Autoethnography

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If I’m honest, I know what it means to have caring teachers. As a privileged (White, middle class, U.S. American) student who attended funded schools, I knew what it felt like to be cared for and to make connections with teachers. These positive experiences are what made the pain of moments of non-care that much more distressing.

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Sandra L. Pensoneau-Conway Tony E. Adams Derek M. Bolen

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Cummins, M.W. (2017). Learning to Care. In: Pensoneau-Conway, S.L., Adams, T.E., Bolen, D.M. (eds) Doing Autoethnography. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-158-2_17

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