Learning and development in economies of care: a reading of research practices toward intergenerational equity

Katie Headrick Taylor

Chapter 12 in Research Handbook on the Anthropology of Education, 2026, pp 111-121 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: If capitalism is destroying the planet, then understanding learning and development within capitalist frames contributes to our existential ruin. But like all systems, capitalism is a construction (a fiction, the literary among us might say) that can be undone, reimagined, and/or reconfigured such that the exploitation of people and the planet is not a necessary cornerstone for operation. If community is an unacknowledged economic category, then an economy based on care might, for instance, guarantee all people a living wage regardless of their desire to work, create jobs for planetary reparations, tax the ultra-wealthy out of existence, and ensure legal rights to children, waterways, lands, and animals. This chapter looks at how research practices—focused on understanding learning—might shift within economies of care to guarantee intergenerational equity.

Keywords: Economies of care; Intergenerational equity; Critical feminism; Social provisioning; Restoration-based education; Speculative research methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035332908
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