LEARNING COMMUNITIES AS CARING COMMUNITIES DURING COVID: Caring as Relation that Empowers Teacher Education

This chapter explores how teacher learning communities that are focused on dialogic discussion and writing can be places of care that move beyond these exclusions and restrictions. Drawing on the authors’ previous, separate work as well as their experiences as teacher educators working with learning communities during the COVID-19 pandemic, the authors outline how learning communities are already places of self-care via caring as relation and argue for what this expanded vision of self-care offers to preservice teachers and teacher educators.