Marcela Morales (@marcela) reflects on the obstacle of “legitimacy”, when educators do not feel legitimate enough to share. @marcela explains how this well-known feeling can lead to self-censorhip, and how having a few sharing may weakened open education. To overcome this feeling, and dismantle it “collectively and intentionally”, she provides us with 5 key points to “refram[e] legitimacy: from prestige to pratice”.
“Beyond Prestige: Whose Knowledge Counts in Open Education?” by Marcela Morales
Am I legitimate in sharing? This question, which we all ask ourselves, is the starting point for the article by Marcela Morales (Mexico), co-executive director of Open Education Global. Her analysis and answer should reassure us…
More applause for @marcela - she is around this space so I hope we can spur her into some conversation.
As Erwant has noted in thr summaries, the challenges are quite overlapping- Marcela’s list of doubts
My materials are too basic to be worth sharing.
My teaching context will be dismissed as less rigorous or less relevant.
What I do is too local and specific to matter beyond my setting.
I don’t have the right language, framing, or institutional standing to contribute.
are directly part of today’s article on Judgement – so then is legitmacy rest upon a freedom of [self] judgement? or is some kind of function of it?
And since sharing os an action of belonging:
At its core, open education is not only about access to resources; it is about belonging to a shared knowledge commons. Sharing becomes an act of presence and recognition, a way of saying: my experience matters, my context matters, and I belong to this collective effort.
How about a collective effort here to talk about legitimacy (and all the other topics). How it the lack of it better addressed in this community, this is a shared knowledge commons, right? And @marcela having your post published on the second day, what feedback have you gotten? Has your thoughts evolved any new ideas since this has been out on the world?