Copyright

Frances Bell, Lorna Campbell, Giulia Forsythe, Lou Mycroft, Anne-Marie Scott

Published On

2023-10-25

Page Range

pp. 267–290

Language

  • English

Print Length

24 pages

10. HE4Good assemblages: FemEdTech Quilt of Care and Justice in Open Education

FemEdtech is a reflexive, emergent network of people learning, practising and researching in educational technology converging on the intersections of feminism, education, and technology. The FemEdTech Quilt of Care and Justice in Open Education was a collaborative quilting project emerging from the FemEdTech network. Through a posthuman lens, this chapter explores the lives and purposes of the FemEdTech Quilt assemblage, using makers’ stories of their quilt squares, images, and Markov chain poetry, alongside ‘unseen’ contributions such as the thoughts, feelings, readings, and memories articulated within a slow ontology of feminist praxis, that authors shared during Thinking Environment conversations.

Contributors

Frances Bell

(author)
Retired Professor, Salford Business School at University of Salford

Frances Bell, since her retirement from Salford Business School (UK) in 2013, has enjoyed the freedom to pursue learning textile arts and conducting independent research with valued others. Some of her treasured achievements since retirement include being part of FemEdTech, a feminist network of those associated with education technology, and being part of the project that is a material-digital expression of FemEdTech values, the FemEdTech Quilt of Care and Justice in Open Education.

Lorna Campbell

(author)
OER Service Manager at University of Edinburgh

Lorna Campbell is a learning technologist and open education practitioner with a longstanding commitment to supporting open knowledge, open education, and OER. She is an active member of the FemEdTech network and a senior certified member of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT). Lorna is based in Scotland and currently works at the University of Edinburgh, where she is manager of the university’s OER Service. She blogs about openness, knowledge equity, feminism, and digital labour at Open World: http://lornamcampbell.org

Giulia Forsythe

(author)
Director of Teaching and Learning at the Centre for Pedagogical Innovation at Brock University

Giulia Forsythe is the director, Teaching and Learning at the Centre for Pedagogical Innovation at Brock University in Ontario (Canada).

Lou Mycroft

(author)

Lou Mycroft is an educator, changemaker and social entrepreneur. Inspired by nomadic posthuman professionalism, she works pan organisationally, anti-competitively and pro-socially with changemakers and policymakers across further education to enact new values-led possibilities. This takes graft, and there are still people looking out for magic bullets, but change is in the air.

Anne-Marie Scott

(author)
Board Chair at Apereo
Board Member at Open Source Initiative
Advisor at OpenETC

Anne-Marie Scott has worked in higher education senior digital leadership for over 20 years in the UK (University of Edinburgh) and Canada (Athabasca University), with a particular interest in open educational technologies. She is Board Chair of the Apereo open-source software foundation, board member of the Open Source Initiative, and advisor to the OpenETC (Canada). She has an MA in Literature and a postgraduate diploma in E-Learning from the University of Edinburgh.