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Lessons On-(the)-Line

Blended Learning and Pedagogy of (the) Digitally Oppressed

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Abstract

In this essay, I explore the meanings and implications of blended learning in an era of global pandemic by extending Paulo Freire’s notion of a “pedagogy of the oppressed” into the digital milieu and COVID-19 era of the 21st century. In doing so, I critically meditate on how Freire’s cue is reformulated in the context of online teaching while situating questions about online learning in the context of the Blended Learning Online South Africa (BLOSA) project based at the University of Witwatersrand. I do so as a means for tracking how, in material practice, blended learning operates in the context of knowledge dissemination and postcolonial poverty.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: July 21, 2020 | Accepted: Oct. 5, 2020 | Published Sept. 6, 2021 | Language: en

Keywords Blended learning • Teaching • Digital • Students • Oppressed • Pedagogy • Online

Copyright © 2021 Rahul Gairola. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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