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More Than It Seems
Learning through Household Work
By Margrit Eichler, Patrizia Albanese, Susan Ferguson, Nicky Hyndman, Lichun Willa Liu, Ann Matthews
September 2010
Print ISBN: 9780889614819
Overview
Household work is an essential part of many people's lives, yet all too often it is rendered invisible. More Than It Seems aims not only to make this vitally important work visible, but also to reconsider it as a source of learning.
Drawing on a large study conducted in Canada, the authors consider diverse forms of household work, including carework. They highlight the experiences of people at the margins — including immigrants, Aboriginal women, people with disabilities, nannies, and people who provide and receive care — and analyze those experiences through the prism of lifelong learning theory. The result is a pioneering work that challenges our assumptions about both household work and lifelong learning.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Patricia Gouthro
Introduction: More Than It Seems: Household Work and Lifelong Learning
Patrizia Albanese
Chapter 1: What Is Housework?
Margrit Eichler
Chapter 2: Learning through Household Work
Margrit Eichler with Ann Matthews
Portrait: Dorica
Chapter 3: Encounters with the Self: Disability and the Many Dimensions of Self-Care
Ann Matthews
Portrait: Fang
Chapter 4: "Have You Had Your Meal Yet?": Chinese Immigrants, Food-related Household Work and Informal Learning
Lichun Willa Liu
Portrait: Mithreal
Chapter 5: Choreographing Care: Learning through Unpaid Carework
Susan Ferguson and Margrit Eichler
Portrait: Dee
Chapter 6: The Case of Nannies: Shifting Unpaid Work onto Paid Work
Nicky Hyndman
Conclusions
Patrizia Albanese
Appendix 1: Methodological Overview
Ann Matthews
Appendix 2: The WALL Project
D.W. Livingston
Appendix 3: Mothers Are Women (MAW)
Kathryn Spracklin
