Open education: Walking a critical path

Cronin, Catherine (2020) Open education: Walking a critical path. In: Open(ing) Education: Theory and Practice. Brill, Leiden, Netherlands, pp. 9-25. ISBN 978-90-04-42297-1

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This chapter explores justifications for and movements toward critical approaches to open education. While “open” is often framed as an unequivocal good, the deceptively simple term hides a “reef of complexity” (Hodgkinson-Williams & Gray, 2009, p. 114), much of which depends on the particular context within which openness is considered and practiced. Critical approaches to open education consider the nuances of context, focus on issues of participation and power, and encourage moving beyond the binaries of open and closed.

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Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Brill on 30 January 2020: Open(ing) Education: Theory and Practice, Eds. Dianne Conrad and Paul Prinsloo https://brill.com/view/title/56897
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