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Exploring Dimensions of Openness in Educational Practices: Power, Knowledge, and Agency
Friday, March 17, 2023
4:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4 Online Event
4 AM New York l 9 AM Vienna
What does it mean for education to be open? Within the current discourse on open education, "openness” has been largely associated with open access to educational resources and open publishing—drawing on the opportunities provided by the Internet and digital technologies.
This workshop sponsored by the Open Society Research Platform seeks to explore the multiple, connected dimensions of openness in the context of educational practices. In particular, the workshop will ask how the concept of “open society” can be useful for expanding dominant approaches to openness in higher education. The event will specifically focus on the ways this more multifaceted understanding of openness can be translated into educational practices and pedagogical techniques.
The workshop will inquire about:
-What are the consequences of the currently dominant technology-centered approaches to open education for the envisaged forms and objectives of higher education, including its societal role? What are the relations between its democratizing and exclusionary effects?
-How can open education arrive at a more agency-centered approach instead of the current implicitly passive paradigm in which its participants emerge as “users” rather than co-creators?
-What are the ways of rethinking openness in education in order to augment its emancipatory potential? How should open education address existing power relations and hierarchies in educational institutions and practices?
-How is open education associated with de-colonization in the learning process and knowledge production?
-How can the notion of open society be translated into the curriculum and what are the implications for pedagogical approaches?
Workshop speakers include Meggan Houlihan (OSUN/Bard College), Samia Huq (BRAC University), Tamara Kamatovic (Central European University), Kaitlin Lucas (CEU), Pusa Nastase (CEU), S. M .Mahfuzur Rahman (BRAC University), and Matyas Szabo (CEU).
The workshop will be composed of two panels and a moderated roundtable discussion, which will be open to the audience.
Check the event webpage for further updates.
Website: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpdOirpjoqGdxm60-JivBYhHU9gGfkE5L1