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How to explain your lust for Openness

using Border Pedagogy

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Henry GirouxMcMaster University

Giroux, H. (2005). Border Crossings: Cultural Workers and the Politics of Education (2nd edition). Routledge Publishing.

website: http://www.henryagiroux.com/

Learning happens everywhere

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Education is structured

Structures are like ‘phrase balloons’ comprised of the Who, What, When, Where, How & Why related to an educational entity.Structures have both mechanical/ created aspects and human aspects.

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Structures have edges, borders.

You can generally tell whether you’re inside or outside the structure.

Structural aspects that control access to the educational entity form a border around the entity.

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Structures are important!

Structures are the value we add as

educators.

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Borders can be fascinating

Tom HeaneyNational-Louis University

… “adult educators [need to] recognize that the most intensive and potentially productive adult learning is situated on the edges of communities of practice” in the “…dynamic and at times chaotic energy which is experienced ‘on the edge,’ – where the frenzy of transformative learning is more likely to occur.

Heaney, T. (1995). Learning to control democratically: ethical questions in situated adult education. Originally published in AERC95. Available from the author.

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Your borders

Walls are nuanced

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…& engender strong emotions

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Scott Leslie, tweet response to YouTube’s copyright wall

Angry post, response to San Jose State U’s decision to contract with EdX

Beatrice Marovich:“The good thing about a MOOC is that it kicks open a door or two of that old ivory tower and freely lets hearty, tasty information into the world.” Online learning: More than MOOCs. From The Chronicle of Higher Education

Allan LauzonUniversity of Guelph

“The function of border pedagogy, then, is to challenge, transgress and redefine borders so that they are more inclusive and more just. (p. 269).

Lauzon, A.C. (1999). Situating cognition and crossing borders: resisting the hegemony of mediated education. British Journal of Educational Technology 30(3), pp. 261-276.

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What’s this got to do with Open?

Examples• Many educational access issues can be reframed as “border” issues; e.g.

• The classroom in Kenya• Student services renovation • Examining, challenging the border between “teacher” and “students”

• Plagiarism and the “academic essay”

Student Services•Educational planning •Academic assessment•Upgrading classes•Tutoring services•Disability services•Financial services•Friendly, helpful people! •Etc.

Student Services•Educational planning •Academic assessment•Upgrading classes•Tutoring services•Disability services•Financial services•Friendly, helpful people! •Etc.

???Student Services

???Whatever the heck that is…

Ian CookUniversity of Exeter, UKCook, I. (2000). ‘Nothing can ever be the

case of “Us” and “Them” again’: Exploring the politics of difference through border pedagogy and student journal writing. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 24 (1), pp. 13 – 27.Traditional classroom Ian’s ‘border’ classroom

Predictable schedule of topics

Unpredictable, evolving discussion

Rows of seats facing the lecturer

Seats in a circle, teacher outside the circle

Teacher assigns value to readings

Students assign value to readings

Writing in an academic style

Writing in a personal, ‘situated’ style

Teacher answers questions

Teacher refuses to answer questions

Rules Different rulesFinal exam No final; journal writing only

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The Academic Essay

The Crime of Plagiarism

How do you feel about the walls that defend your communities of practice?

Protect them

Protect them in spite of growing assaults, incursions, & requests for access

Forget about protecting them. Blow them up!