FreshEd

Special Announcement: FreshEd will hold its Annual General Meeting on April 23. Register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcucOChrTgjGdNWj8lO0_NbjOY3tZcJBm_e#/registration -- Today we are going to air a conversation I had with Bruce Collet, the editor of the journal Diaspora, Indigenous and Minority Education. DIME, as the journal is known, has an interesting series called “Conversations” where Bruce interviews academics in the field. The interviews are transcribed, edited, and published in their journal. We thought it would be great to air the full conversation on FreshEd. And that’s what we are going to do today. The edited version of the interview will be published in the next issue of DIME. I’ll be sure to share a link once it’s out. https://freshedpodcast.com/dime/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we unpack the meaning of internationalization in international schools in England and Qatar. My guest is Nidal Al Haj Sleiman. Nidal Al Haj Sleiman is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Ulster University and a Visiting Research Fellow at Centre for Lebanese Studies. Her new article in Perspectiva Educacional is entitled: “Leadership as a socially and culturally informed praxis: The question of internationalisation in international school leadership.” https://freshedpodcast.com/Sleiman/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we dive into the reading wars. We aren’t going to explore the best way to learn how to read. Rather, we are going to unpack how the Science of Reading has been used to push an agenda of standardization and privatization. My guest is Elena Aydarova, an assistant professor in the educational policy studies department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has two recent publications on the Science of Reading: One in Harvard Educational Review entitled "'Whatever you want to call it': Science of Reading Mythologies in the Education Reform Movement" and a second forthcoming article entitled “What you see is not what you get: Science of reading reforms as a guise for standardization, centralization, and privatization." https://freshedpodcast.com/aydarova/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we explore the challenges and opportunities of learning in a digital age. How can we navigate our world of abundant information? What social norms are changing and what new social norms do we need? And what does the smartphone, Generative AI, and platform algorithms mean for education? My guest is Dave Cormier, a learning specialist at the University of Windsor, who is credited with coining the term MOOC – or Massive Open Online Course – in 2008. Dave’s new book is Learning in a Time of Abundance: The community is the Curriculum (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024). https://freshedpodcast.com/cormier/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we talk about collaboration, both its good and bad sides. My guest is Amy Shuffelton, a professor of philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. Amy Shuffelton’s new book is Collaboration: Philosophy of Education in Practice, which was published by Bloomsbury in February. https://freshedpodcast.com/shuffelton/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

A few weeks ago, I was invited to talk about podcasting as creation and dissemination on the Hong Kong University Social Contexts and Policies of Education podcast called Education Dialogues. As it says on its website: “Education Dialogues is a forum for educational sharing and debate through short written or oral communication.” The podcast is about 8 minutes. What some scholars of podcasting would call a short burst episode. I had such a good time speaking with Professor David Carless that I wanted to share it on FreshEd. Have a listen and be sure to follow Education Dialogues on Spotify. https://freshedpodcast.com/hku/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we dive into the field of education in emergencies, highlighting its entanglements with colonialism, empire, and racial capitalism. My guest is Jess Oddy. Jess Oddy is a researcher at the university of Bristol and has worked in various capacities in the field of education in emergencies. Her new article is “Retelling education in emergencies through the black radical tradition: on racial capitalism critical race theory and fugitivity,” which was published in Globalisation, Societies and Education. https://freshedpodcast.com/oddy/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we explore the meaning of comparison from a theoretical approach that combines Policy Mobilities and Assemblage theory. My guests are Steven Lewis and Rebecca Spratt. Steven Lewis is an Associate Professor of Comparative Education at Australian Catholic University where Rebecca Spratt is a PhD candidate. Their new book is Assembling Comparison: Understanding Education Policy through Mobilities and Assemblage (Bristol University Press, 2024). https://freshedpodcast.com/lewis-spratt/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we look at educational reform over time. My guest is Patricia Bromley, an associate professor in the graduate school of education at Stanford University. Together with Jared Furuta, Rie Kijima, Lisa Overbey, Minju Choi, and Heitor Santos, Patricia has recently published the article Global Determinants of Education Reform, 1960 to 2017. In the article, the team reports findings using their novel database of education reforms called the World Education Reform Database, which is freely available online: https://werd.stanford.edu/ https://freshedpodcast.com/bromley/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

This is the last week FreshEd is on holidays. We return on February 19! Please be sure to donate to FreshEd in 2024: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate -- Today we explore the learning crisis in education. In particular, we unpack the crisis narrative, which has reached a crescendo during Covid-19. With me is Michele Schweisfurth, a Professor of Comparative and International Education at the University of Glasgow. She has a new article in the International Journal of Educational Development entitled “Disaster Didacticism: Pedagogical interventions and the ‘learning crisis.’” Citation: Schweisfurth, Michele, interview with Will Brehm, FreshEd, 311, podcast audio, March 6, 2023.https://freshedpodcast.com/micheleschweisfurth-2/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

FreshEd is on holidays for the next few weeks. While we are away, we'll replay some of our favourite episodes. You can check out our entire catalogue of 341 episodes here: https://freshedpodcast.com/freshed/ Please be sure to donate to FreshEd in 2024: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate -- Today we explore the ways in which economic thinking came to dominate in public policy. With me is Beth Popp Berman, who has recently written the new book Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in US Public Policy. Beth Popp Berman is an Associate Professor of Organizational Studies at the University of Michigan. www.freshedpodcast.com/popp-berman -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

FreshEd is on holidays for the next few weeks. While we are away, we'll replay some of our favourite episodes. You can check out our entire catalogue of 341 episodes here: https://freshedpodcast.com/freshed/ Please be sure to donate to FreshEd in 2024: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate -- Today we explore the idea of degrowth. With me is Jason Hickel, an economic anthropologist, author, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the United Kingdom. He is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics, and Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. He recently published a book entitled Less is More: How Degrowth will Save the World. The book is a must read for anyone who wants to know how we can stop ecological break down and enable human flourishing. Citation: Hickel, Jason, interview with Will Brehm, FreshEd, 214, podcast audio, September 14, 2020. https://freshedpodcast.com/jasonhickel/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

FreshEd is on holidays for the next few weeks. While we are away, we'll replay some of our favourite episodes. You can check out our entire catalogue of 341 episodes here: https://freshedpodcast.com/freshed/ Please be sure to donate to FreshEd in 2024: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate -- Today we discuss the climate crisis, why it’s a difficult knowledge for humans to grasp, and how art can help us transform approaches to teaching about it. My guest is Audrey Bryan. Audrey Bryan is an associate professor of Sociology in the School of Human Development at Dublin City University. Her new article is Pedagogy of the implicated: advancing a social ecology of responsibility framework to promote deeper understanding of the climate crisis, which was published in Pedagogy, Culture & Society. Citation: Bryan, Audrey interview with Will Brehm, FreshEd, 282, podcast audio, June 6, 2022. https://freshedpodcast.com/bryan/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

FreshEd is on holidays for the next few weeks. While we are away, we'll replay some of our favourite episodes. You can check out our entire catalogue of 341 episodes here: https://freshedpodcast.com/freshed/ Please be sure to donate to FreshEd in 2024: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate -- American students are in debt. Some forty-four million Americans collectively hold over $1.4 trillion worth of debt. Those numbers have increased since the Global Financial Crisis from 10 years ago. Today I speak with Ben Miller, a senior director for Postsecondary Education at the Center for American Progress. Ben specializes in higher-education accountability, affordability, and financial aid, as well as for-profit colleges. His most recent op-ed – “The Student Debt Problem is Worse than we Imagined” – appeared in the New York Times in August. Citation: Miller, Ben, interview with Will Brehm, FreshEd, 126, podcast audio, September 17, 2018. https://www.freshedpodcast.com/benmiller/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

FreshEd is on holidays for the next few weeks. While we are away, we'll replay some of our favourite episodes. You can check out our entire catalogue of 341 episodes here: https://freshedpodcast.com/freshed/ Please be sure to donate to FreshEd in 2024: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate -- Today we talk about confronting settler colonialism in higher education. My guest is Leigh Patel, Professor of Urban Education at the University of Pittsburgh, and President of Education for Liberation. In her new book, No Study without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education, Leigh shows how the ability to study has always involved some form of struggle by groups historically marginalized in the USA. Her book is a love letter to study groups around the world. Citation: Patel, Leigh, interview with Will Brehm, FreshEd, 258, podcast audio, October 18, 2021.https://freshedpodcast.com/patel2/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Happy new year! FreshEd is on holidays for the next few weeks. While we are away, we'll replay some of our favourite episodes. You can check out our entire catalogue of 341 episodes here: https://freshedpodcast.com/freshed/ -- Controversies over school policies that impact transgender students have increasingly made headlines in the United States for the past few years. What legal protections do transgender students have in schools? And how have the Obama and Trump administrations interpreted the law in this regard? My guest today is Suzanne Eckes, professor in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Department at Indiana University. She has written about the various legal cases involving transgender students. Citation: Eckes, Suzanne, interview with Will Brehm, FreshEd, 177, podcast audio, October 21, 2019. https://www.freshedpodcast.com/suzanneeckes/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

As we near the end of 2023, it’s time to take stock of the year. What were the big events in 2023 and how might they impact the field of CIE? What new ideas emerged? And where is our field headed in 2024? Continuing this FreshEd tradition, Susan Robertson and Mario Novelli join me for the last episode of the year. Mario Novelli is professor in the political economy of education at the University of Sussex. Susan Robertson is a professor of the sociology of education at Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge. They co-edit the journal Globalisation, Societies and Education. https://freshedpodcast.com/2023inreview/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we air a rerun from 2016. We'll be back next week with our end of year roundup. -- Social movements produce a huge amount of intellectual knowledge. Yet, in many academic circles, this knowledge is overlooked. Aziz Choudry spent most of his life working with social movements around the world. At the time of this interview, he was an associate professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University and visiting professor at the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation at the University of Johannesburg. His book Learning Activism: The Intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements was published in 2015 by the University of Toronto Press. All book proceeds will be donated to the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal. Learning Activism is designed to encourage a deeper engagement with the intellectual life of activists who organize for social, political, and ecological justice. Professor Choudry was concerned with “making visible the dialectical relationship between ‘Research’ and ‘organizing.’” Will Brehm spoke with Aziz Choudry in mid January 2016 about his new book. Aziz passed away in May 2021. Citation: Choudry, Aziz interview with Will Brehm, FreshEd, 14, podcast audio, February 8, 2016. https://freshedpodcast.com/azizchoudry/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we look at funding, equity, and achievement in Australian Schools. My guest is Barbara Preston. Barbara Preston is an Independent Researcher based in Canberra. She’s recently authored the report “Funding, Equity and Achievement in Australian Schools,” which documents a national symposium that was convened by Jane Kenway and Fazal Rizvi earlier this year. freshedpodcast.com/preston -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we explore what it would mean to do things differently in education research. With me are Elmi Slater and Pasi Sahlberg. Elmi Slater is a year 11 student from Canberra, Australia and Pasi Sahlberg is a professor of education at the University of Melbourne. Today’s episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the University of Canberra. freshedpodcast.com/slater-sahlberg -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate