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Educational care work is among the other care work that women perform informally and without any payment. Its being educational makes a certain type of women important to mention, mothers.
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This is the terminology developed among the classroom mothers interviewed. This is a direct transfer of their terminology.
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Apak, M. (2022). Classroom Mothers: A Reserve Army of Labour Behind the School System. In: Breastfeeding Privatization in Public Education. Critical Studies of Education, vol 17. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0260-4_5
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