From the university of right and quality to auniversity of care

Abstract

This article originates from the need to stop and think about what is happening to us at this time of crisis. The ‘upside-down’ university poses a question for education: What is worth caring of? This is a question that arises from thinking of the way in which universities and their members compose the educational landscape in a situation that disrupts and shakes all aspects of life. This article presents three issues: a) university teaching in online contexts; b) a class made of faces and no bodies; and c)an endless course. All topics are developed alongside fragments of our lockdown diaries, teaching narratives and questions that show –along with positions supporting a neoliberal education model in university contexts –the existence of stories, experiences and reflections that allow us to develop, cultivate and live university from its radical sense. This is a sense that, from a relational perspective, allows for the recovery of educational decisions and qualities aimed at a pedagogy of care in our programmes.