Can Open Pedagogy Encourage Care? Student Perspectives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21729370 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Deirdre Maultsaid (0000-0001-8130-8549, Kwantlen Polytechnic University), Michelle Harrison (0000-0001-9205-1961, Thompson Rivers University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 77-98 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1492-3831 • E-ISSN: 1492-3831 |
| Publisher | Athabasca University Press (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.19173/irrodl.v24i3.6901 |
| OpenAlex | W4386533675 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 16 |
As a response to the increasing commercialization of postsecondary education, educators argue for a practice of care in education. Open pedagogy (OP) seems like an ideal practice where care, trust, and inclusion can be realized. OP is characterized as a democratic and collaborative pedagogical practice, in which students and teachers work to co-create learning and knowledge using openly licensed materials, open platforms, and other open processes. The purposes of this study were, first, to reveal ways students in postsecondary institutions perceive care and, second, to determine how students suggest OP can be used to create an open/caring learning process. A task-oriented focus group method engaged students from four teaching-focused institutions. The students created open cases on social issues for class discussion and reflected on care and OP processes in postsecondary settings. Using four elements of the ethics of care—attentiveness, responsibility, competence, and trustworthiness—as conceptual categories, the study examined students’ experience of care and care in OP using affective coding and thematic analysis. The results showed that through OP, with teacher support and explicitly designed practices of care, students can assert their agency, have quintessential roles in creating and participating in highly relevant curriculum and importantly, care about others, and be cared for. OP is a process able to involve a diverse population of students and embody care as an all-encompassing practice
Curriculum · Medical education · Pedagogy · Qualitative research · Sociology · Thematic analysis · Medicine · Open Education and E-Learning · Psychology · Reflective Practices in Education · Social Psychology
The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers
The caring relation in teaching
Having, being and higher education
Addressing potential challenges in co-creating learning and teaching
“Treat me like a person, rather than another number”
Thematic Analysis
On care and dissonance within pedagogical encounters
Race and feminist care ethics
Teachers' care in higher education
Aligning the market and affective self
Working with’ as a methodological stance
Constructing the caring higher education teacher
Student perceptions of themselves as ‘consumers’ of higher education
There is an alternative
Thematic Analysis
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |