University of Colorado Boulder - Thinking About Care
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Thinking About Care at Coursera Overview
Duration | 8 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Thinking About Care at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Course 2 of 3 in the Caring for Others Specialization
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Beginner Level No prior background is required.
- Approx. 8 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: English
Thinking About Care at Coursera Course details
- Although all humans require care to develop and thrive, it is rarely the focus of academic studies. This course enriches learner?s understanding of this critical yet underappreciated facet of their lives by addressing such questions as: What is care? Who has traditionally provided it? How valued is care work? Does money take the care out of care work? In addition to advancing learner?s knowledge of the place of care in modern society and controversies surrounding it, Thinking About Care will give learners the opportunity to learn a strategy that surveys existing approaches to care.
Thinking About Care at Coursera Curriculum
What is care and should we study it?
Introduction to Thinking About Care
What is care? Part I: Trying to Define Care
What is care? Part II: Tronto's Definition
Should we study care? Why Social Scientists Have Avoided the Study of Care
Nursing Continuing Professional Development Contact Hours
Graduate Teacher Education Process
Caring for Others Facebook Group
Christianna Silva. ?The Millennial Obsession With Self-Care.?
What is care? Should we study it?
Who has traditionally provided care?
Care Providers Part I: The Uneven Distribution of Care
Care Providers Part II: The Role of Gender
Care Providers Part III: The Role of Race
Care Providers Part IV: Implications
?Rethinking Work-Life Balance For Women of Color"
Who has traditionally provided care?
What are the different types of paid care work, and what motivates individuals to enter care occupations?
Types of Paid Care Work Part I: The Size of the Care Sector
Types of Paid Care Work Part II: Interactive and Support Care Occupations
Reasons for Helping Others: Non-Monetary Reasons for Working in a Care Occupation
?Why Volunteer??
Types of Paid Work
How valued is care?
The Value of Care Part I: Why Care Workers are Underpaid
The Value of Care Part II: Other Ways Care Workers are Devalued
?It Doesn?t Pay To Be An Early Childhood Teacher"
The Value of Care
Choose Your Controversy
Money and Care Part I: Liberal and Conservative Concerns
Money and Care Part II: Questionable Assumptions Shared by Both
Money and Care Part III: Seeing Money and Care in a Different Light
Humanitarian Aid Part I: Three Historical Approaches to Humanitarian Aid
Humanitarian Aid Part II: Criticisms of the Three Approaches
Humanitarian Aid Part III: Unresolved Tensions
?Children? The Only Thing My Nannies Care for Are Money and Holidays?
D. Godrej. ?NGOs - Do They Help?? 2014.
Money and Care
Humanitarian Aid
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