5 Open Pedagogy, Social Justice, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Overview

This chapter explores the synergistic relationship between open pedagogy and social justice, and how open pedagogy can increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the classroom.

Read

Read Decolonizing your syllabus? You might have missed some steps (2:36 minutes).

Read Dear Mentors – Taking on Decolonizing the Classroom (6:35 minutes).

Watch

Watch Creating a Socially Just Open Education, embedded below (58:28 minutes).

Transcript

 

Explore

Page through the Open Pedagogy, Social Justice, and Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion slide deck below.

Reflection Questions

  1. What perspectives are missing from my syllabus currently that I would like to add? How will these benefit all students?
  2. What are ways I can start small to incorporate aspects of social justice and diversity, equity, and inclusion into my course?

 

 

Further Resources

Beyond Equality: Mobilizing Open Education for Racial Justice – OpenEd22 Keynote by Dr. Kamille Gentles-Peart (58:42)

Diverse Name Generator – a random name generator that can help you use diverse names in the creation of your course materials.

Framing Open Educational Practices from a Social Justice Perspective by Maha Bali, Catherine Cronin, and Rajiv S. Jhangiani.

Guiding Authors Towards Inclusive Content Creation

Inclusive open education: presumptions, principles, and practices by Benjamin Croft and  Monica Brown.

Curated List of Examples

Open For Anti-Racism (Self-Paced Course) | Canvas Commons – A course developed by College of the Canyons, Module 3 specifically talks about Open Pedagogy.

 

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