Keynote: The Warp and Weft of Open Education and Social Justice
Channel: Open Education Global
Date: 2019-12-12

By implication open education subscribes to notions of social justice, but implementation strategies and research often focus on economic injustice to the exclusion of cultural and political inequities. Moreover, despite altruistic motivations, open education activity may unintentionally reproduce many of the existing inequities that it seeks to change. Drawing upon the projects in which I am involved I will highlight the intertwinement of open education and social justice in projects in the global south, by illustrating ways of strengthening equitable access, cultural equality and political legitimacy.

Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams
University of Cape Town
Associate Professor
South Africa