Open at the Margins; Critical Perspectives on Open Education

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This book represents a starting point towards curating and centering marginal voices and non-dominant epistemic stances in open education, an attempt at critical pluriversalism.

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As the book describes, “Open education is at a critical juncture. It has moved on from its northern roots and is increasingly being challenged from its own periphery. At the same time, it finds itself marginalised and under threat in an educational sector infiltrated by corporate interests. However, rather than bunkering down, becoming blinkered or even complacent, the editors of this volume believe that the voices from the periphery should be amplified. This book represents a starting point towards curating and centering marginal voices and non-dominant epistemic stances in open education, an attempt at critical pluriversalism. It is a curated collection of 38 blog posts, lectures, talks, articles, and other informal works contributed by 43 diverse authors/co-authors and published since 2013. Each of these contributions offers a perspective on open education that can be considered marginal and that challenges the dominant hegemony”.

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Vrana, A., Collier, A., Watters, A., Caines, A., Meinke-Lau, B., Stewart, B., H., C. K., Cronin, C., Hodgkinson-Williams, C., Bourg, C., Gilliard, C., Friedrich, C., Hendricks, C., Marsh, J., Atenas, J., Mitchell, J., Stommel, J., Luke, J., Pete, J., Cangialosi, K., Czerniewicz, L., Campbell, L. M., Bali, M., Moore, M., Barnes, N., Allen, N., Prinsloo, P., Mattson, R. J., Jhangiani, R., DeRosa, R., Veneruso, S. S., Hare, S., singh, s. s., Spelic, S., Bouterse, S., Ensor, S., Walji, S., Koseoglu, S., Morgan, T., Robertson, T., Adam, T., Amiel, T., & Asino, T. (2021). Open at the margins; critical perspectives on open education. National Resource Hub (Ireland). Retrieved from: https://hub.teachingandlearning.ie/resource/open-at-the-margins-critical-perspectives-on-open-education/ License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA).

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