This document discusses the concept of "border pedagogy" and structures in education. It provides definitions and examples of educational structures and borders. Structures are described as establishing borders around educational entities that control access. Borders can be fascinating but also engender strong emotions. The function of border pedagogy is defined as challenging, transgressing, and redefining borders to make them more inclusive and just. Examples of examining educational borders and structures are provided.

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How to explain your lust for
Openness using Border
Pedagogy

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Henry Giroux
McMaster University
Giroux, H. (2005). Border Crossings: Cultural Workers
and the Politics of Education (2nd edition).
Routledge Publishing.
website: http://www.henryagiroux.com/

6. Learning happens everywhere

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Education is structured

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9. Structures are
like ‘phrase
balloons’
comprised of
the
Who, What, W
hen, Where, H
ow & Why
related to an
educational
entity.
Structures
have both
mechanical/
created
aspects and
human
aspects.

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Structures have edges, borders.
You can generally tell whether you’re inside
or outside the structure.

11. Structural
aspects that
control access
to the
educational
entity form a
border around
the entity.

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Structures are important!
Structures are the value we
add as educators.

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Borders can be fascinating

14. Tom Heaney
National-Louis University
… “adult educators [need to] recognize that the
most intensive and potentially productive adult
learning is situated on the edges of communities of
practice” in the “…dynamic and at times chaotic
energy which is experienced ‘on the edge,’ – where
the frenzy of transformative learning is more likely
to occur.
Heaney, T. (1995). Learning to control democratically:
ethical questions in situated adult education.
Originally published in AERC95. Available from the
author.
”

15. Walls are nuanced
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16. …& engender strong emotions
Aaron Swartz, 1986 - 2013
Scott Leslie, tweet response to YouTube’s copyright wall
Angry post, response to San Jose State U’s decision to contract with EdX
Beatrice Marovich:
“The good thing about a
MOOC is that it kicks open a
door or two of that old ivory
tower and freely lets hearty,
tasty information into the
world.”
Online learning: More than MOOCs.
From The Chronicle of Higher Education
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17. Allan Lauzon
University of Guelph
“The function of border pedagogy, then, is to
challenge, transgress and redefine borders so
that they are more inclusive and more just. (p.
269).
Lauzon, A.C. (1999). Situating cognition and crossing
borders: resisting the hegemony of mediated
education. British Journal of Educational
Technology 30(3), pp. 261-276.
”

18. Examples
(as time permits)
• Student services renovation
• Examining, challenging the border between
“teacher” and “students”
• Plagiarism and the “academic essay”