All the work: Education on care work and post-growth

We have compiled nine methods for educational work that can be used to introduce and educate people on topics relating to "care". They are suitable for political and economic educators and multipliers as well as for people who would like to get to grips with the topics.

Methods - that means trying out different approaches to topics. The spectrum is very broad. For example, playful methods such as a "care quiz" or more complex group work with texts and maps on "global care chains" have been developed.

The methods offer various feminist approaches to the organisation of work and the economy. In addition to introductory elements, they draw thematic links between gender relations, time prosperity, migration, climate, degrowth and current alternatives for organising care.

All methods were developed as part of the "Caring for Transformation" project by Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie. They build on the knowledge and cooperation in the Care Revolution network. The methods are free to use and can be used under a Creative Commons licence.

You can find the methods on ...

www.Endlich-Wachstum.de/kapitel/die-ganze-arbeit/

On Endlich-Wachstum.de, the methods are summarised in the chapter The whole work. There are also many other exciting methods on the site. Feel free to browse further!

If you are interested, have any questions or feedback, please contact us by email at care@knoe.org.

Education and care, education is care

When people talk about work or their job, they often lose sight of something fundamental: Being there for others. Whether for young or old, or for ourselves and our environment - caring, looking after ourselves and others, accompanying people in all situations in life - it has to be done.

All of this is work - called "care work" in English. It is vital and connects us. However, it often remains invisible and is little valued. And it is unfairly distributed, as it is predominantly done by women and largely outsourced to migrants.

What would happen if care work was at the centre of the economy? If everyone's needs and livelihoods counted, not just within national borders, but worldwide.
These are the parameters that link the debates on post-growth (or degrowth) with feminist positions. A socially just and ecologically sustainable transformation of society is therefore in the interests of a good life for all.

Education plays a central role in this. It is relational work and therefore also care. It connects people with each other and across generations. It also bears responsibility for embedding people in the natural environment and imparts vital knowledge about the basis of life for us all. This thematic context is the background for the methods mentioned above.

Even more education

In addition to the methods from the "Caring for Transformation" project, we recommend the following sources for educational methods relating to care work:

• Joan Robinson Association, WIDE Network Women in Development Europe, Institute for Institutional and Heterodox Economics/WU Vienna (ed.) (2017): Collection of methods for adult education on the topic: Feminist Care Economy

• Joan Robinson Association, WIDE Network Women in Development Europe, Institute for Institutional and Heterodox Economics/WU Vienna (ed.) (2017): Handbook II - Thinking economy differently. Feminist care economics: theory and methods

• Joan Robinson Association, WIDE Network Women in Development Europe, Institute for Institutional and Heterodox Economics/WU Vienna (ed.) (2009): Thinking Economics Differently - Handbook of Feminist Economic Literacy

"All the work:
Education on care work and post-growth"