1 Moscovici and Schon on Quality Assurance in Open Distance Learning Thulani Zengele Department of Educational Leadership and Management College of Education University of South Africa 3 Preller Street Muckleneuk Pretoria Email address: tzengele@unisa.ac.za (Corresponding author) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3753-6146 Victor J. Pitsoe Department of Educational Leadership and Management College of Education, University of South Africa (UNISA) 3 Preller Street Muckleneuk Pretoria Email address: Pitsovj@unisa.ac.za https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3127-8198 ABSTRACT: Quality and Quality Assurance (QA) praxis concepts are a social representation and reflective practice discourse. With this in mind, the paper argues that QA in Open Distance Learning (ODL) is consistent with Moscovici’s Social Representations Theory and Schon's Reflective Practice. In doing so, it draws from Serge Moscovici’s Social Representations Theory and Donald Schon's Reflective Practice; this paper theorises Quality and Quality Assurance; it investigates ODL Quality Assurance: Recent Developments and Future Directions; sketches perspectives on Quality for ODL; presents an Ideology of Quality Control; and examines Quality Assurance as a Practice of Reflection. KEYWORDS Quality Assurance, Social Representations Theory, Reflective Practice. Open Distance Learning, Pedagogic Device. 1. Introduction and background QA praxis is both a social representation and reflective practice discourse. This philosophical paper argues that QA in ODL is consistent with Moscovici’s Social Representations Theory and Schon's Reflective Practice. Nevertheless, multiple stakeholders, including graduate employers and funding institutions, have increased their emphasis on QA in the Higher Education sector in recent years. Since the advent of new managerialism, the quality and QA movements have become highly contentious in Higher Education, according to Kaiser et Electronic copy available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4497228