Open Textbooks and Social Justice: Open Educational Practices to Address Economic, Cultural and Political Injustice at the University of Cape Town
| dc.contributor.author | Cox, Glenda | |
| dc.contributor.author | Masuku, Bianca | |
| dc.contributor.author | Willmers, Michelle | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-05-15T10:30:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-05-15T10:30:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-05 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper provides evidence from the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) project at the University of Cape Town (UCT), on the potential of open textbooks to address social injustice in South African higher education and the practices utilised by UCT staff to address these challenges. The paper uses Nancy Fraser’s (2005) trivalent lens to examine inequality, specifically as relates to the following dimensions: economic (maldistribution of resources); cultural (misrecognition of culture and identities); and political (misrepresentation or exclusion of voice). The findings demonstrate that open textbooks have the potential to disrupt histories of exclusion in South African higher education institutions by addressing issues of cost and marginalisation through the creation of affordable, contextually-relevant learning resources. In addition to this, they provide affordances which enable lecturers to change the way they teach, include student voices and create innovative pedagogical strategies. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Cox, G., Masuku, B., & Willmers, M. (2020). Open Textbooks and Social Justice: Open Educational Practices to Address Economic, Cultural and Political Injustice at the University of Cape Town. <i>Journal of Interactive Media in Education</i>, 2020(1)(2), pp. 1–10. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Cox, Glenda, Bianca Masuku, and Michelle Willmers "Open Textbooks and Social Justice: Open Educational Practices to Address Economic, Cultural and Political Injustice at the University of Cape Town." <i>Journal of Interactive Media in Education</i> 2020(1), 2. (2020): pp. 1–10. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Cox, G., Masuku, B. & Willmers, M. 2020. Open Textbooks and Social Justice: Open Educational Practices to Address Economic, Cultural and Political Injustice at the University of Cape Town. <i>Journal of Interactive Media in Education.</i> 2020(1)(2):pp. 1–10. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Cox, Glenda AU - Masuku, Bianca AU - Willmers, Michelle AB - This paper provides evidence from the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) project at the University of Cape Town (UCT), on the potential of open textbooks to address social injustice in South African higher education and the practices utilised by UCT staff to address these challenges. The paper uses Nancy Fraser’s (2005) trivalent lens to examine inequality, specifically as relates to the following dimensions: economic (maldistribution of resources); cultural (misrecognition of culture and identities); and political (misrepresentation or exclusion of voice). The findings demonstrate that open textbooks have the potential to disrupt histories of exclusion in South African higher education institutions by addressing issues of cost and marginalisation through the creation of affordable, contextually-relevant learning resources. In addition to this, they provide affordances which enable lecturers to change the way they teach, include student voices and create innovative pedagogical strategies. DA - 2020-05 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town IS - 2 J1 - Journal of Interactive Media in Education KW - open education; open textbooks; social justice; transformation LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 2020 T1 - Open Textbooks and Social Justice: Open Educational Practices to Address Economic, Cultural and Political Injustice at the University of Cape Town TI - Open Textbooks and Social Justice: Open Educational Practices to Address Economic, Cultural and Political Injustice at the University of Cape Town UR - ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.5334/jime.556 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11427/31887 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Cox G, Masuku B, Willmers M. Open Textbooks and Social Justice: Open Educational Practices to Address Economic, Cultural and Political Injustice at the University of Cape Town. Journal of Interactive Media in Education. 2020;2020(1)(2):pp. 1–10. . | en_ZA |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher.department | CILT | en_US |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Centre for Higher Education Development | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_US |
| dc.source | Journal of Interactive Media in Education | en_US |
| dc.source.journalissue | 2 | en_US |
| dc.source.journalvolume | 2020(1) | en_US |
| dc.source.pagination | pp. 1–10 | en_US |
| dc.source.uri | https://jime.open.ac.uk/ | |
| dc.subject | open education | en_US |
| dc.subject | open textbooks | |
| dc.subject | social justice | |
| dc.subject | transformation | |
| dc.title | Open Textbooks and Social Justice: Open Educational Practices to Address Economic, Cultural and Political Injustice at the University of Cape Town | en_US |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en_US |