Openness for Emergent “Shocks”
Maha Bali, PhD @bali_maha
Center for Learning & Teaching, American University in Cairo,
Virtually Connecting & Equity Unbound
OpenCon Ohio, May 2023
السلام عليكم
How are you feeling today?
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“... coloniality survives colonialism. It is maintained alive in books, in the criteria for academic performance, in cultural patterns, in common sense, in the self-image of peoples, in aspirations of self, and so many other aspects of our modern experience. In a way, as modern subjects we breathe coloniality all the time and every day’ (Maldonado-Torres, 2007, p. 243)
Much of what is in this talk is inspired by collaborators on work that is not yet published - including Anna Mills, Lance Eaton, Daniela Gachago, Nicola Pallitt, Yasser Tamer, Anuj Gupta
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What energizes you these days?
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What was a recent “shock” in your context lately?
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What is something valuable you learned from the “open” recently?
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What is an unexpected thing that brought you peace or joy recently?
Emergent Strategy (amb)
“new normal” of instability [falls] into two groups: shocks and slides. Shocks present themselves as acute moments of disruption. These are, for example, market crashes, huge disasters and uprisings. Slides, on the other hand, are incremental by nature. They can be catastrophic, but they are not experienced as acute.
“One of our key roles, as social movements, must be to harness the shocks and direct the slides—all towards achieving the systemic, cultural and psychic shifts we need to navigate the changes with the greatest equity, resilience and ecological restoration possible.” - amb
Intentional adaptation is the heart of emergent strategy. How we live and grow and stay purposeful in the face of constant change actually does determine both the quality of our lives, and the impact that we can have when we move into action together.” -amb
“Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual” - adrienne marie brown, Emergent Strategy
Catherine Cronin (2017) says that openness is
Egyptian educator & author Taha Hussein: “Knowledge is like water & air”
“العلم كالماء و الهواء”
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In what ways is “open education” like water (or should be)?
#SelfOER - Suzan Koseoglu & me (2016)
http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/self-as-oer-selfoer/62679
Reflections & Re-thinking....
Content centric ─ Process centric
Teacher centric ─ Learner centric
Pedagogical ─ Social justice
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(Not in our paper: Cognitive, Behavioral, Affective)
(Economic, Cultural, Political;
Transformative, Ameliorative, Neutral, Negative)
“Open educational practices (OEP) is a broad descriptor of practices that include the creation, use, and reuse of open educational resources (OER) as well as open pedagogies and open sharing of teaching practices.”
Nancy Fraser’s framework (2005)
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“Teachers who care, who serve their students, are usually at odds with the environments wherein we teach”
bell hooks, 2003,Teaching in Community, p. 91
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What is EQUITY without CARE and what is CARE without EQUITY?
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We asked on Twitter…
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No Care
Care
Equity
Inequity
TOKENISM?
DIVERSITY THEATER?
LIP SERVICE?
SYSTEMIC?
PERFORMANCE? رياء
SYSTEMIC INJUSTICE
SELECTIVE & AFFECTIVE LABOR?
AMELIORATIVE?
BAND-AID?
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Inequity
No Care
Care
Equity
SOCIALLY JUST
CARE
CONTRACTUAL
EQUITY
SYSTEMIC INJUSTICE
PARTIAL
CARE
Bali & Zamora (2022). Equity/Care Matrix: Theory & Practice. Italian Journal of Educational Technology
” Care labour holds the capacity to disobey power and increase our collective freedom. This is why when it is organised in capitalist, patriarchal and racist ways, it does not work for most living beings. We are in a global crisis of care”.
From Czerniewicz & Carvalho (2022)
(Link to chapter)
What open practices supported you during the pandemic period?
Developing an open resource during COVID remote learning times
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Examples of key pedagogies
for building community
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Invitation to contribute!
Coming soon… MYFest23
June - July - August
What are some ways in which “openness” has helped you or your institution respond to the impact of AI (e.g. ChatGPT) on education?
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What about AI?
No one-size-fits-all response to AI
Different contexts
Different goals
Different challenges and inequalities
When/who would make it from scratch? How to motivate someone to?
Store bought is like getting help from another human?
Home-made but from a box - when would you need that? When is it OK?
When would you buy from the grocery store?
Cake as a metaphor for AI
When would you make it from scratch, from box, bakery or grocery?
Open practices to support us
Openness & Risks
Getting blocked? 🙃
Ecocycle planning
A Liberating Structure www.liberatingstructures.com
Influenced by complexity science and agriculture
Work of Hurst, D. K., & Zimmerman, B. J. (1994). From life cycle to ecocycle: a new perspective on the growth, maturity, destruction, and renewal of complex systems. Journal of Management Inquiry, 3(4), 339-354.
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Ecocycle Planning
GESTATION
SOWING
BIRTH
TENDING
MATURITY
HARVESTING
CREATIVE DESTRUCTION
PLOWING
Ecocycle Planning (graphic version)
Make a list of your activities/relationships/practices (whatever you are ecocycling) then place them where you think they belong on the diagram.
GESTATION
SOWING
BIRTH
TENDING
MATURITY
HARVESTING
CREATIVE DESTRUCTION
PLOWING
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Take time individually to list all the practices, values, activities, relationships that exist in your writing center, no need to share just yet (5 mins alone; 5 mins in 4s)
What is a key takeaway today?
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Thank You!
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Email: bali@aucegypt.edu
Twitter: @bali_maha
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