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OPEN EDUCATIONAS A REAL UTOPIA
JAMISON R. MILLER | THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & [email protected] | @MILLERJAMISON
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Open education has the potential to sustainably transform existing educational institutions into more equitable and democratic forms.
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OPEN EDUCATION IS “UNDER-THEORIZED”Bayne, Knox, & Ross, 2015
Deiman & Farrow, 2013 Edwards, 2015Knox, 2013Moe, 2015Nyberg, 1975 Peters, 2008
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WHY THEORY?● Without it, open education is
vulnerable to dilution and cooptation
● Not just a lens, but also as a keel
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REAL UTOPIASSociologist Erik Olin Wright has built a theoretical framework for a critical and emancipatory approach in social science most comprehensively presented in Envisioning Real Utopias (2010). “Real utopias” aims to contribute a “normatively grounded sociology of the possible, not just the actual” (2012, p. 2).
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REAL UTOPIAS
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A contradictory term?UTOPIAS are fantasies, morally inspired designs unconstrained by feasibilityREALists eschew such fantasies, condemning them as wasted time and effort
Wright proposes embracing the tensions between dreams and practice.
What is pragmatically possible is not independent of our imaginations, but is shaped by our visions. (2010, p. 6)
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WHERE THERE IS A WILL THERE IS A WAY.
Naïve optimism, perhaps, but without a will, many ways become impossible.
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THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS.
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PLAUSIBLE VISIONS OF RADICAL ALTERNATIVES,
WITH FIRM THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS,
ARE A CRUCIAL COMPONENT FOR EMANCIPATORY SOCIAL
CHANGE.
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FOUNDATIONS1)Many forms of human suffering and many deficits
in human flourishing are the result of existing institutional and social structures.
2)Transforming existing institutional and social structures in the right way has the potential to substantially reduce human suffering and expand the possibilities for human flourishing.
(Wright, 2012, p. 2)
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FOUR TASKS1)Specifying moral principles2)Diagnosis and critique of existing
institutions3)Developing an account of viable
alternatives4)Proposing a theory of transformation
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TASK ONE: Specifying moral principles
EQUALITYDEMOCRACYSUSTAINABILITY
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TASK ONE: Specifying moral principles
EQUALITY: In a socially just society, all people would have broadly equal access to the social and material conditions necessary for living a flourishing life. (2012, p. 4)
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TASK ONE: Specifying moral principles
DEMOCRACY:In a fully democratic society, all people would have broadly equal access to the necessary means to participate meaningfully in decisions about things that affect their lives. (2012, p. 5)
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TASK ONE: Specifying moral principles
SUSTAINABILITY: Future generations should have access to the social and material conditions to live flourishing lives at least at the same level as the present generation. (2012, p.5)
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TASK TWO: Diagnosis and Critique
Dewey (1916)Freire (1970)hooks (1994)
Benkler (2006)Castells (2010; 2013)
Floridi (2011)
Giroux (2014)Slaughter & Rhoades (2004)
Newfield (2008; 2016)
Watters (whenever)McMillan-Cottom (2017)
Goldrick-Rab (2016)
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TASK THREE: AlternativesDeveloping an account of open education, evaluated in terms of:
Desirability- focusing ideal alone is merely utopianViability- unintended consequences?Achievability- how do we move from here to there?
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TASK THREE: AlternativesOpen education as an alternative institutional form of education
Open things: OER, dataOpen practices: Pedagogy, teaching, learning
ResearchOrganization
and governance
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TASK THREE: Alternatives
Economic empowerment Social empowerment
Educational Institutions
Educational Institutions
Adapted from Wright, 2010; 2012
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TASK FOUR: Transformation
Three strategic logics towards social transformation:
Ruptural - revolution, a sharp breakInterstitial - building in niches and marginsSymbiotic - achieving social empowerment and practical problems of dominant classes + elites
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REAL UTOPIASFOUNDATIONSFOUR TASKS
Moral principlesDiagnosis and critiqueAccounts of alternativesTransformation
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OPEN EDUCATIONAS A REAL UTOPIA
JAMISON R. MILLER | THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & [email protected] | @MILLERJAMISON
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