Interrogating the Power of Open: Critical Pedagogy and the ‘Talk’ of Teaching
Channel: Affordable Learning @ Cleveland State University
Date: 2022-05-23

by Meggie Mapes, PhD. Introductory Course Director in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Kansas. This session explores open pedagogy at the intersection of critical communication pedagogy (CCP). CCP -- a process that centralizes power by engaging the relationship between communication and teaching -- expands open pedagogical conversations by focusing on the "talk" about foundational educational processes and practices. In other words, what are mundane and everyday rhetorical choices that normalize publishing processes, naturalize privatized resources, and acknowledge that a commitment to "open" begins in how we teach about teaching, publishing, and scholarship?