Open & Critical Pedagogy: K-12

What is Open Education?

According to the Cape Town Open Education Declaration (2007):

open education is not limited to just open educational resources. It also draws upon open technologies that facilitate collaborative, flexible learning and the open sharing of teaching practices that empower educators to benefit from the best ideas of their colleagues. It may also grow to include new approaches to assessment, accreditation and collaborative learning. Understanding and embracing innovations like these is critical to the long term vision of this movement.

What is Critical Pedagogy?

According to wikipedia, "Critical pedagogy is a philosophy of education and social movement that has developed and applied concepts from critical theory and related traditions to the field of education and the study of culture.[1] Advocates of critical pedagogy view teaching as an inherently political act, reject the neutrality of knowledge, and insist that issues of social justice and democracy itself are not distinct from acts of teaching and learning.[2] The goal of critical pedagogy is emancipation from oppression through an awakening of the critical consciousness, based on the Portuguese termconscientização. When achieved, critical consciousness encourages individuals to affect change in their world through social critique and political action."

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This site will be used to support the Open and Critical Pedagogy in K-12 Learning environments for the Digital Pedagogy Institute 2018.

The content from this site was created by Verena Roberts and the participants from the workshop.