Öztok, M. (2019). The Hidden Curriculum of Online Learning – Understanding Social Justice Through Critical Pedagogy. London: Taylor & Francis.
Black lives matter is not a slogan. It is a powerful statement with implications, especially for education. It is one that resonates with other statements about truth and reconciliation and gender inequality, especially as the pandemic has revealed how education in both its structure and substance reinforces such inequalities. This book asks us to stop, reflect and change, and it is timely. Based on the idea that, rather than transforming communities and societies, education is engaged in cultural reproduction, the book challenges us to explore just what “inclusion” means for different students in our online course and what the implications of cultural pluralism are for instructional design. Are we given equal voices to different perspectives and enabling different representations of the ideas and worlds as experienced by different persons in our course? Some good writing which will make you think.
