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Today I speak with the new editors of the Comparative Education Review, the flagship US journal in the field. tavis d. jules and Florin D. Salajan have big plans for the journal. tavis d. jules is a professor in cultural and educational policy and international higher education at Loyola University Chicago. Florin D. Salajan is a professor in the school of education at North Dakota State University. We spoke about their first editorial entitled “Navigating an Unbridled World: A Transformational Era ahead for Comparative and International Education.” freshedpodcast.com/jules-salajan/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we look at some of the colonial legacies in discourses around girls’ education. With me are Chris Kirchgasler and Karishma Desai. They’ve recently published an article entitled, “’Girl’ in Crisis: Colonial Residues of Domesticity in Transnational School Reforms,” which was published in the Comparative Education Review. Chris Kirchgasler is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Karishma Desai is an assistant Professor at Rutgers Graduate School of Education. freshedpodcast.com/kirchgasler-desai/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com

Today we unpack the fast-evolving student protests in the USA. With me is Neal Hutchens, a professor at the University of Kentucky’s College of Education. Much of Neal’s work focuses on issues of free speech and academic freedom. Neal Hutchens serves on the author team for the forthcoming edition of The Law of Higher Education: Essentials for Legal and Administrative Practice published by Wiley. I spoke with Neal on April 30, hours before the police entered Columbia University’s campus and counter-protesters attacked the pro-Palestinian tent encampment at University of California, Los Angeles. The situation is likely to change by the time this episode airs on May 5. freshedpodcast.com/353-hutchens/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we put the field of comparative and international education in conversation with film studies. With me is Irving Epstein, emeritus Professor at Illinois Wesleyan University. Irving Epstein’s new book is entitled Education, Affect, and Film: Visual Imaginings and Global Explorations Through a Comparative Lens. It will be published in June by Bloomsbury. freshedpodcast.com/epstein/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Special Announcement: FreshEd will hold its Annual General Meeting on April 23. Register here: https://freshedpodcast.com/agm Today we look at the history and changes of Ukrainian scholarly discourse. My guest is Liz Shchepetylnykova. Liz Shchepetylnykova is a PhD candidate at the University of Hong Kong researching transformations of the Ukrainian higher education and academic profession. She has recently published the article “Mending the divide: intellectuals and intelligentsia in Ukrainian scholarly discourse. https://freshedpodcast.com/shchepetylnykova/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

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

Today I continue my introduction to Australia. With me is Lindsay Fitzclarence who has just published the book “The Dirty Life of Mining in Australia: A travelogue.” In it, Lindsay goes on an educational journey into the history, culture, and political economy of an industry that plays an outsize role in Australia. Lindsay Fitzclarence is an honorary professor at Deakin University. His book The Dirty Life of Mining in Australia was published last week. freshedpodcast.com/fitzclarence -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we explore academic freedom and struggles for justice by looking at Palestine. My guests are Palestinian academics Mai Abu Moghli and Nida Badawi. Mai Abu Moghli is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Lebanese Studies and an Academic Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Nida Badawi is a master’s students at the University College London. I spoke with them last week. freshedpodcast.com/moghli-badawi -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we look at digital humanitarianism and how digital interfaces are constructing new forms and modes of governance. My guest is Fleur Johns, who has recently authored the new book #Help: Digital Humanitarianism and the Remaking of International Order. Fleur Johns is a professor in the faculty of law and justice at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. She is currently an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. freshedpodcast.com/johns -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we revisit the ideas of the so-called new sociology of education, which were popularised in the 1970s. My guest is Julie McLeod, a Professor of Curriculum, Equity and Social Change at the University of Melbourne Faculty of Education Julie McLeod recently edited a Point and Counterpoint set of essays for Curriculum Perspectives that revisit the ideas and debates in the new sociology of education. freshedpodcast.com/mcleod -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we explore generative AI in education. My guest is none-other than ChatGPT, perhaps the most infamous generative AI assistant today. In our conversation, I ask ChatGPT about some of the biases in its answers and how schools and universities should try to overcome them. ChatGPT is a large language model-based chatbot developed by OpenAI. freshedpodcast.com/chatgpt -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Given the recent events in Palestine, I thought it would be a good time to revisit this episode on Lebanon. We'll be back soon with new episodes. -- What does citizenship education look like in a country affected by armed conflict and economic crises? My guest today, Bassel Akar, has closely examined citizenship and history education in Lebanon. Some of his research focuses on the ways in which teachers demonstrate their agency for curricular and pedagogical change through innovative approaches inside the classroom. Bassel Akar is Associate Professor of Education and Director of the Center for Applied Research in Education at Notre Dame University in Lebanon. Last year he published a book entitled Citizenship Education in conflict-affected areas: Lebanon and beyond. www.freshedpodcast.com/basselakar -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we explore new approaches to teacher education in Australia. My guest is Chris Morrissey, a Clinical Associate Professor and Director of School Partnerships at the University of Canberra. Chris tells me about the school-based teacher education clinics that he helped develop across the Australian Capital Territory. Chris was named the 2023 Australian Teacher Educator of the Year by the Australian Teacher Education Association. The Affiliated Schools Program that Chris leads has recently been renewed for another five years. freshedpodcast.com/morrissey -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

FreshEd has over 300 episodes in its archive. For the next few weeks, we'll air some of our favourites. -- Is there a worldwide learning crisis today? My guest, Keith Lewin, argues that the real issue in much of international education development has to do with financing. In our conversation, we discuss aid to education and the ways in which the Sustainable Development Goals don’t take the idea of sustainability seriously. Keith Lewin is an Emeritus Professor of International Education and Development at the University of Sussex Citation: Lewin, Keith, interview with Will Brehm, FreshEd, 138, podcast audio, December 3, 2018. https://www.freshedpodcast.com/keithlewin/

FreshEd has over 300 episodes in its archive. For the next few weeks, we'll air some of our favourites. -- Today we talk about intercultural competencies. These are the attitudes, skills, and knowledge that enable people to see from different perspectives, helping us get along together as humans. These competencies seem particularly relevant in our current political climate. My guest is Darla Deardorff. She has spent the past decade thinking about intercultural competencies. What are? Can scholars agree on a common framework? And is it possible to measure them? For Darla, intercultural competencies are as vital as math and science for education. Darla Deardorff is the Executive Director of the Association of International Education Administrators at Duke University. Her latest co-edited book, Intercultural Competence in Higher Education: International Approaches, assessment, application, was published by Routledge. Citation: Deardorff, Darla, interview with Will Brehm, FreshEd, 80, podcast audio, July 3, 2017. https://freshedpodcast.com/deardorff/

Education privatisation continues to be a big topic across countries. But do you really know how it’s happening, how privatization as an educational policy is moving around the world? And what effect is it having on governments? Today we re-play an episode from 2017. My guest, Stephen Ball, has written a series of books looking at educational privatization. In his latest book, Edu.net, co-written with Caroline Junemann and Diego Santori, he explores through network ethnography the evolution of the global education policy community that is advancing privatization. Stephen Ball was a Distinguished Service Professor at the Institute of Education, University College London. Citation: Ball, Stephen, interview with Will Brehm, FreshEd, 78, podcast audio, June 19, 2017. https://www.freshedpodcast.com/stephenball/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we look at the research process in post-conflict Sri Lanka. My Guest is Suren Ladd, a PhD student at the University of Sydney. Suren Ladd has recently published the article “Virtual Qualitative Inquiry: Tensions of Research in Post-conflict Sir Lanka, which was published in Globalisation, Societies and education. freshedpodcast.com/ladd -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we look at the intersection of school financing and the climate emergency. Should green infrastructure updates in schools be financed primarily through grants or loans? With me are David Backer and Akira Drake Rodriguez. David Backer is an associate professor of education policy at West Chester University of Pennsylvania and Akira Drake Rodriguez is an assistant professor at the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. Their new article is Movements at the Fiscal/Monetary Crossroads: Financing a Green New Deal for Schools in Philadelphia. freshedpodcast.com/backer-rodriguez -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we explore aboriginal voices in education research in Australia. Australians will soon vote in a referendum about whether to change their Constitution to allow for the creation of an advisory body made up of First Nations peoples. This body would provide advice to the Parliament and the government on matters that impact indigenous communities. This is called The Voice. Nikki Moodie is an Associate Professor and Program Director of the Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity at the University of Melbourne. Together with Kevin Lowe, Roselyn Dixon, and Karen Trimmer, she has recently co-edited the volume Assessing the Evidence in Indigenous Education Research: Implications for Policy and Practice. freshedpodcast.com/moodie -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we explore the alternative education providers that have emerged in the aftermath of the 2021 coup in Myanmar. My guest is James, a representative of Spring University Myanmar. SUM has recently published a report entitled Higher Education in Post-Coup Myanmar. In order to protect James, I’ve agreed not to use his surname or photo. https://freshedpodcast.com/SUM/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we look at the high school dropout crisis and the dismantling of the social safety net in Philadelphia. My guest is Nikhil Goyal, a sociologist and policymaker who served as senior policy advisor on education and children for Senator Bernie Sanders. Nikhil’s new book is Live to see the day: Coming of Age in American Poverty. https://freshedpodcast.com/goyal/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we take stock of the Covid-19 pandemic and higher education. After nearly four years, how have universities changed and what might their future look like? With me to discuss the post-pandemic university are Mark Carrigan and Susan Robertson. Mark Carrigan is a lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Susan Robertson is a professor of the sociology of education at Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge. Together with Hannah Moscovitz and Michele Martini, they’ve recently co-edited the volume entitled Building the Post-Pandemic University: Imagining, Contesting and materializing Higher Education Futures. https://freshedpodcast.com/carrigan-robertson/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we dig into the ways in which governments in low- and middle-income countries make decisions on education. What interventions work and which should be scaled? My guest is Brad Olsen. As he shows, these questions are a lot more complex than we might think. Brad Olsen is a senior fellow with the Center for Universal Education in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution. He has recently published the report “Government Decisionmaking on Education in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Understanding the Fit among innovation, scaling strategy, and broader environment.” This report is part of the Research on Scaling the Impact of Innovations in Education (ROSIE) multiyear project housed at the Center for Universal Education at Brookings and part of the Global Partnership for Education’s Knowledge and Innovation Exchange. Brad’s opinions expressed on today’s episode are his alone, not official Brookings’ policy. https://freshedpodcast.com/olsen/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we talk about what it would mean to queer higher education. My guests are Louise Morley and Daniel Leyton. In their new book, they disrupt some of the norms and common ways of thinking in higher education today.  Louise Morley is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sussex and Daniel Leyton is a Lecturer at the University of Exeter. Their new book is entitled Queering Higher Education: Troubling Norms in the Global Knowledge Economy. https://freshedpodcast.com/morley-leyton/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we explore the way in which education and economic well-being were linked in the USA. My guest, Jon Shelton, calls the link a myth and shows how it prevented alternative visions of education from expanding and furthering social democracy. Jon Shelton is a Professor and chair of democracy and justice studies at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay. His new book is The Education Myth: How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy (Cornell University Press, 2023). https://freshedpodcast.com/shelton/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we air the last episode of Flux Season 2. Flux is a FreshEd series where graduate students turn their research interests into narrative-based podcasts. This episode was created by Michael Rumbelow, a PhD student at the University of Bristol. In his Flux episode, Michael takes listeners on a sonic journey to explore block play. He weaves together sounds and ideas to show the power and possibilities of play. I hope you enjoy today’s episode. freshedpodcast.com/flux-rumbelow -- Credits: This episode was created, written, produced and edited by Michael Rumbelow. Johannah Fahey was the executive producer. Brett Lashua and Will Brehm were the producers. Vicki Mitchem played Virginia Woolf and Bertha Ronge, Dave Jackson played Friedrich Froebel, Karl Marx, and Charles Dickens, and Simone Datzberger played Melanie Klein. Studio audio technicians were Patrick Robinson and Simon Vause. Thank you and Aray to Sifo Lakaw, chairman of the Association of Pangcah Language Revitalization in Taiwan, Adrian Rooke, Druid of the order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, Gregg Wagstaff, and the National Film Board of Canada, for kindly giving me permissions to use recordings. With many thanks to Professor Alf Coles for educating my awareness. And a special thank you to Gene for the Minecraft interview and stop-motion animation. Sound effects and music credits can be found at freshedpodcast.com/flux-rumbelow -- Learn more about Flux: freshedpodcast.com/flux/about/ Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we air the next episode of Flux. a FreshEd series where graduate students turn their research interests into narrative-based podcasts. This episode was created by Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar, who recently graduated with his PhD from Oxford and is now a lecturer in education at Keele University. In his Flux episode, Aizuddin problematizes the meaning of development. Is development always a forward motion? Or does it weave side to side like a river? And how does development get written onto lives? Is it always bad? Is it always good? Aizuddin meanders through these questions, connecting family memory to the development of Malaysia. freshedpodcast.com/flux-anuar -- Credits: Episode created, written, produced, and edited by Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar. Executive Producer: Johannah Fahey Producers: Brett Lashua and Will Brehm Voices: Narrator, Inner monologue, Translation of Mak, Willard C. Bush: Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar Long: Nazmi Anuar Joint reading from text: Nazmi Anuar and Ahmad Akif Mak: Noraini Ahmad Young people: Students of SMK Padang Midin, Malaysia (courtesy of their English teacher, Mr. Pravindharan Balakrishnan) Music and Sounds: Acoustic guitar compositions (Blues Sungai Seluar, Hujan Pagi, Menyusuri Sungai Jelai, Blues Jambatan Gantung, Bunga Cengang, Balada Kilang Rokok): Ahmad Black Link: https://ahmadblack.bandcamp.com/releases Camera Click Sound Effect by Soundstripe Link: https://app.soundstripe.com/sfx/63925 Chainsaw Sound Effect by InspectorJ Link: https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/418042/ Clock Ticking Sound Effect by Soundstripe Link: https://app.soundstripe.com/sfx/32756 Construction Site Sound Effect by Soundstripe Link: https://app.soundstripe.com/sfx/198 Critters in the rural environment: Recorded by Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar Dial-up Internet Sound Effect by Free Sounds Library Link: https://www.freesoundslibrary.com/dial-up-internet-sound/ Drilling Rig Sound Effect by fkunze Link: https://freesound.org/people/fkunze/sounds/407454/ Elephant Sound Effect by geronimo83 https://freesound.org/people/geronimo83/sounds/103117/ Elevator opening and going up: Recorded by Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar Gas Flaring and Fire Sound Effect by Soundstripe Link: https://app.soundstripe.com/sfx/3669 Hammer on Metal Sound Effect by Soundstripe Link: https://app.soundstripe.com/sfx/39457 People Chattering Sound Effect by Breviceps Link: https://freesound.org/people/Breviceps/sounds/465699/ Thunder and Rainfall Sound Effect by Soundstripe Link: https://app.soundstripe.com/sfx/48305 Tiger Sound Effect by Soundstripe Link: https://app.soundstripe.com/sfx/62307 Traffic sounds in Kuala Lumpur: Recorded by Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar Underwater Bubbles Sound Effect by Soundstripe Link: https://app.soundstripe.com/sfx/34316 Various River and Water Sounds: Recorded by Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar -- Learn more about Flux: freshedpodcast.com/flux/about/ Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we air the next episode of Flux. This episode was created by Bhavani Kunjulakshmi, a recent graduate of the UCL Institute of Education and staff writer at Feminism in India. Bhavani’s episode explores the meaning of colonization and decolonization in international development and education. We might think we know what colonization is. The history. The actors involved. The exploitation. But what does it feel like? And then what would it mean to decolonize? And what would that feel like? Bhavani explores these questions. freshedpodcast.com/flux-kunjulakshmi -- This episode was created, written, produced and edited by Bhavani Kunjulakshmi. Johannah Fahey was the executive producer. Brett Lashua and Will Brehm were the producers. Fred Brehm read the quote by Noah Chomsky and Fran Vavrus read the quote by Martha Nussbaum. Music was composed by M.C Couper The bell hooks’ clip was a part of ‘A Public Dialogue between bell hooks & Laverne Cox hosted by Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts’ (Creative commons) The clip of Amartya Sen was a part of ‘Equality and growth – an interview with Amartya Sen’ (Creative commons) Quote by Noam Chomsky about Kerala was from Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Noam Chomsky, Howard Gardner, and Bruno della Chiesa Askwith Forum (Creative commons) Quotes by Martha Nussbaum was from “Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach” (Creative commons) Music: The Spirituals Project – Sankofa – Oh Freedom (Creative commons) -- Learn more about Flux: freshedpodcast.com/flux/about/ Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we re-air the first episode of the second season of Flux, a FreshEd series where graduate students turn their research interests into narrative-based podcasts. In this Flux episode, Yanan Yu tells a story that raises some interesting questions about how ability should be defined. Is it enough that she has a level ten certification in piano? And a master’s degree? And now works at the BBC? Or does she need something else to be considered able? freshedpodcast.com/flux-yu -- Today’s episode was created, written, produced, and edited by Yanan Yu. Johannah Fahey was the executive producer and Brett Lashua and Will Brehm were the producers. Flux theme music by Joseph Minadeo of Pattern Based music. The piano pieces in this episode, listed below, are all played by Yanan Yu: Claude Debussy: Ballade L. 70 Frederic Chopin: Etudes Op. 10 No. 3 Franz Liszt : Un Sospiro, Trois Etudes de Concert S.144 Sergei Rachmaninoff: Elegy Op. 3 No. 1 Wanghua Chu, 春江舟影 Thanks to Haozhou Ding, Zeyu Wang, Yishuang Xu, Xiaotong Wang and other activists across the globe. Yanan would not have been able to express the complexities surrounding this issue without their support. Finally, Yanan hopes that her efforts may contribute to some changes, however small, in her peers’ lives. -- Learn more about Flux: freshedpodcast.com/flux/about/ Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we air the third episode of Flux, a FreshEd series where graduate students turn their research interests into narrative-based podcasts. This episode is by Mari Casellato, a recent graduate of Teachers College, Columbia University. Mari takes us on a journey through time, revealing the potential of youth participation in environmental education in Brazil (and beyond). You might be thinking Brazil – where the Amazon was on fire just last year and the current Bolsonaro government has been routinely criticized for doing too little to prepare for the climate crisis. But back in the 1990s and early 2000s, Brazil spearheaded this idea of environmental education, which brought together a diversity of voices through national conferences and was seen as a political act. Mari was personally involved in this history. https://freshedpodcast.com/flux-casellato/ Credits: This episode was created, written, produced, and edited by Mari Casellato. Johannah Fahey was the executive producer and Brett Lashua and Will Brehm were the producers. Voices: Narrator: Mariana Casellato History narrator: Tiago Luna English version of Joao: Alcides Ferreira English version of Mariana: Renata Penalva English version of Isis: Aline Godoy Youth voices: Ajani Stella and Kayley Chery Music in this episode (used with permission): Cacuriá – Mawaca “Temas tradicionais de cacuriá” Maranhão – Brazil/Arrangement: Mawaca Special guest: Tião Carvalho (Voice, cavaquinho and caixa) Lá na Mata da Amazônia – Seu Antonio and Grupo Cupuaçu Other music came from the Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue): Eggs and Powder and Alum Drum Solo; and Soundstripe (www.soundstripe.com) Baiao Baiao, Coco Coco, and Sambita Sambita, all by Hola Hola. Sound effects retrieved from Freesound.org: Sea sound effect by HowNotToSail and Forest sound scape by jonasrocha. Former UN Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali speech at Rio 92 audio retrieved from the UN Audiovisual Library: The Earth Summit. Special thanks to Rachel Trajber and Marcos Sorrentino for their generosity and continued work; to Clóvis, for continuing to be a reference; and to João, for the energy. To Projeto Cala-boca já morreu and all of its participants for so many years of partnership, with special remarks to Grácia for all the inspiration, to Mariana, for the insights, to Tiago, for the great voice, and, to Isis for all the support and companionship now and over the years. To Danilo Fernandes, Ajani Stella, Kayley Chery, Renata Penalva, Alcides Ferreira, Aline Godoy, Daniel Corsi, Carla Hirata, and Caio Mamede for agreeing to lend their voices for this project and for all the support. Finally, to Mawaca, to Tião Carvalho, to Neila Campos Mendes and her family, and to Grupo Cupuaçu for allowing us to use their amazing songs “Cacuriá” and “Lá na Mata da Amazônia” that gave so much life to this project.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Please take this survey on podcasting in higher education: www.freshedpodcast.com/survey -- In this Flux episode, Yardain Amron crafts a narrative that shows complex theories in action. He doesn’t simply tell his listeners what these ideas are or name them explicitly. He takes us to disparate places–from universities in India and Puerto Rico to Occupy Wall Street–and makes a connection between them by embedding stories within stories. Through this nested narrative, he shows us how the streets are schools by exploring spaces of activism as educative sites, while leading us to the core idea at the heart of this episode: the relationship between debt and violence. Yardain Amron is a freelance journalist and master’s student in Geography at the University of British Columbia. https://freshedpodcast.com/flux-amron/ Credits: Today’s episode was created, written, produced, and edited by Yardain Amron. Johannah Fahey was the executive producer and Brett Lashua and Will Brehm were the producers. Flux theme music was composed by Joseph Minadeo of Pattern Based music. Music in this episode came from Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue): Tiny Bottles ShadowPlay The Bus at Dawn Kvelden Trapp David Graeber clip from “Debt: The First 5000 Years — Extended Interview” by Uprising with Sonali. Special thanks to Eleni Schirmer, Jose Laguarta, Banojyotsna Lahiri, Alessandra Rosa, and the many other student- and scholar-activists across the globe whose experiences and expertise, if not voices, underpin this story.

Special announcement: Starting in July, the University of Canberra will be the new home of FreshEd! While Will moves to Australia, we'll be re-playing the FreshEd Flux episodes. Also, please take this survey on podcasting in higher education: www.freshedpodcast.com/survey -- In the first episode of Flux, Daniela Hernández Silva takes listeners to a faraway place in the Colombian countryside. Here, reality is transformed. She uses magical realism to create a composite character called Jose. Jose gives voice to the hundreds of people Daniela spoke with during her five-years of ethnographic fieldwork. By raising Jose’s voice and listening to what he has to tell us, Daniela offers an alternative reading of Escuela Nueva, the award-winning rural education program founded in Colombia. She challenges policy assumptions about rural education in Colombia as a way to begin to change the narrative. Daniela also questions academic conventions and critiques the legitimacy of academic knowledge over local experience. The episode is a sonic journey unlike anything we’ve ever aired. freshedpodcast.com/flux-silva -- Today’s episode was written, edited, and produced by Daniela Hernández Silva. Senior producer was Johannah Fahey. Producers were Brett Lashua and Will Brehm. Flux theme music by Joseph Minadeo of Pattern Based music. Voices: • Narrator and Researcher: Daniela Hernández Silva • Young Jose: Pablo Rivas • Adult Jose: Guillermo Rivas • Gabriel García Márquez: Gustavo Fischman Music and Sounds used with permission: • Bamboo Flute by Carlos Carty • Bass track by Daniela Hernández Silva • Bittersweet by Matteo Galesi • Book Sound Effect by All Sounds • Bomb Sound Effect: Free Sound by ERH • Burning Fire Sound Effect by Hadwin Channel • Cash Register Sound Effect by Kiddpark • City Skyline Sound Effect by Audio Library • City Traffic Sound Effect by RoyaltyFreeSounds • Clapping Sound Effect by Audio-without-Copyright • Colombian Cumbia by Vodovoz Music Productions • Handwriting Sound Effect by Nagaty Studio • Keyboard Typing Sound by zrrion_the_insect • Kids playing: Recording by Daniela Hernández Silva • Magical Rising Wind by Jason Shaw • The Arctic by Gold Coast • People talking: Recording by Daniela Hernández Silva • Record Scratch Sound Effect by SONIDOS-NoCopyright • Shots Sound Effec by No-Copyright-Music-Vloggers • The Reflecting by Birds of Norway • Throwing Away Glass Sound Effect by Qubodup • Truck: Recording by Daniela Hernández Silva • Woman Crying Sound Effect by ARRNNOO -- Learn more about Flux: freshedpodcast.com/flux/about/ Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Please take this survey on podcasting in higher education: www.freshedpodcast.com/survey -- Today we continue our mini-series called the FreshEd Questionnaire. I’ve been asking guests a set of standard questions after each interview. These questions focus on how guests approach writing, reading, research, and supervision. I want to talk about them to highlight the many different approaches to the day-to-day activities we do inside universities. Today’s episode focuses on reading and writing. I asked guests to describe how they approach writing and to name their favorite book or author. Here’s what they had to say. freshedpodcast.com/323-questionnaire -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Please take this survey on podcasting in higher education: www.freshedpodcast.com/survey -- Today we continue our mini-series called the FreshEd Questionnaire. I’ve been asking guests a set of standard questions after each interview. These questions focus on how guests approach writing, reading, research, and supervision. I want to talk about them to highlight the many different approaches to the day-to-day activities we do inside universities. Today’s episode focuses on research. I asked guests to describe how they approach research and to give one piece of advice to a new student in terms of conducting research. Here’s what they had to say. freshedpodcast.com/322-questionnaire -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Please take this survey on podcasting in higher education: www.freshedpodcast.com/survey -- Today we continue our mini-series called the FreshEd Questionnaire. I’ve been asking guests a set of standard questions after each interview. These questions focus on how guests approach writing, reading, research, and supervision. These are the day-to-day activities we do inside universities, but we don’t talk too much about them. I want to talk about them to highlight the many different approaches. Today’s episode focuses on supervision. I asked guests to describe their preferred method of supervision. Here’s what they said. freshedpodcast.com/321-questionnaire -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we explore the interconnections between Educational Assessment and Inclusive Education. My guests are Alison Milner and Ezequiel Gómez Caride. Alison Milner is an assistant professor in the Centre for Education Policy Research of the Department for Culture and Learning at Aalborg University in Denmark. Ezequiel Gómez Caride is an assistant professor at the School of Education at the University of San Andrés in Argentina. Together with Christian Ydesen, Tali Aderet-German and Youjin Ruan, they’ve recently co-written the book Educational Assessment and Inclusive Education: Paradoxes, Perspectives and Potentialities. https://freshedpodcast.com/milner-caride/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we look at systems thinking in international education and development. With me are Moira V. Faul and Laura Savage. Moira V. Faul is Executive Director of NORRAG, and also a Senior Lecturer at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Laura Savage is the Executive Director of the International Education Funders Group (IEFG). Their new co-edited collection is entitled Systems Thinking in International Education and Development, which is Open Access. Please note: NORRAG provides financial contributions to FreshEd. https://freshedpodcast.com/faul-savage/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we explore the production of global learning metrics inside the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. My guest is Clara Fontdevila, a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Education at the University of Glasgow. Clara’s newest article is entitled “The politics of good enough data. Developments, dilemmas, and deadlocks in the production of global learning metrics,” which was published in the International Journal of Educational Development. Today’s episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the School of Education at the University of Glasgow. Thanks to Matthew Thomas for organizing the event. https://freshedpodcast.com/fontdevila/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we explore scholarly podcasting: what it is and why it matters. With me is Ian M. Cook, who has recently published the book Scholarly Podcasting: Why, What, How? Ian M. Cook is Editor and Chief at Allegra Lab. He is an anthropologist whose work focus includes urban India, scholarly podcasting, open education, and environmental (in)justice. https://freshedpodcast.com/cook/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we explore one Ph.D. student’s journey from Yemen to the USA. We dig into different traditions of Islam and education, and what it means to shift between extremes. My guest is Abdulrahman Bindamnan, a Ph.D. student in Comparative ‎and International Development Education at the University of ‎Minnesota. He serves as a Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center ‎for the Study of Global Change and is a contributing writer for Psychology Today where he documents his journey living abroad in a regular column. https://freshedpodcast.com/bindamnan/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we explore the process of colonization and decolonization from a comparative perspective. My guest is Lachlan McNamee who has recently published the book Settling for Less: Why states colonize and why they stop. Lachlan McNamee is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at UCLA and a Lecturer of Politics at Monash University. https://freshedpodcast.com/mcnamee/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we explore the experiences of Black Caribbean youth in the United Kingdom and the United States. My guest is Derron Wallace, an assistant professor of sociology and education at Brandeis University. Derron Wallace’s new book is The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth. https://freshedpodcast.com/wallace/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we talk about Black Lives Matter and what it means for the field of comparative and international education. With me are Sharon Walker and Krystal Strong, who have recently co-edited with Derron Wallace, Arathi Sriprakash, Leon Tikly, and Crain Soudien, a special issue of Comparative Education Review entitled “Black Lives Matter and Global Struggles for Racial Justice in Education.” https://freshedpodcast.com/walker-strong/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today Michael Crossley reflects on the field of comparative and international education. He looks at different eras to unpack some of the major debates in the field. Taking a historical perspective provides useful context and intellectual tools to understand and make sense of the big issues facing the field today, such as environmental uncertainty and decolonization. Michael Crossley is Emeritus Professor of Comparative and International Education at the University of Bristol. The reflections in today’s episode are based on his article “Epistemological and Methodological Issues and Frameworks in Comparative and International Research in Education,” which was published in the New Era of Education: The Journal of the World Education Fellowship. https://freshedpodcast.com/crossley/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: 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.’” https://freshedpodcast.com/micheleschweisfurth-2/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we explore the concepts of racialization and educational inequality in the field of comparative and international education. My guests are Janelle Scott and Monisha Bajaj who have recently co-edited the latest edition of the World Yearbook of Education. Janelle Scott is a Professor in the School of Education and African American Studies Department at the University of California at Berkeley and Monisha Bajaj is a professor of international and multicultural education at the University of San Francisco. https://freshedpodcast.com/scott-bajaj/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we talk about affirmative action in higher education in the United States. The Supreme Court will soon rule on the latest case over race-based college admissions, which many fear will end affirmative action as we know it. My guest is Natasha Warikoo, a professor of sociology at Tufts University. Her new book is Is Affirmative Action Fair?, which was published by Polity press. https://freshedpodcast.com/warikoo/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Welcome to the first episode of 2023! We are thrilled to be starting another year and have a great line-up of guests for you. Before we kick things off, I’d like to encourage any graduate student who wants to make a narrative-based podcast about their research to apply for a FreshEd Flux Fellowship. The application deadline is Feb 17. So if that’s you, head over to FreshEdpodcast.com/flux for more details. Also, FreshEd will be holding an online Annual General Meeting on February 20 at 8:30 am Eastern Standard Time. This will be an opportunity for our listeners to learn about the inner workings of FreshEd. You can ask us questions, meet the team, and provide input into our future direction. More details will be shared on our website soon. Stay tuned and I hope you can join us. -- Today we focus on a hugely important issue but one that is generally absent within the organizations and structures that make up the global education architecture. The issue is race. My guests today, Francine Menashy and Zeena Zakharia, have spent years speaking with staff members at various global education organizations – you know, places like UNESCO, UNCIEF, the World Bank, and the Gates Foundation. They also scrutinized hundreds of publications these organizations have published. Francine and Zeena come to the conclusion that few if any of these organization deal with race and racial power relations between the global north and south in any meaningful way. Francine Menashy is an associate professor at the University of Toronto and Zeena Zakharia is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. Their new article in Harvard Educational Review is entitled White Ignorance in Global Education. It’s open access until March 9. https://freshedpodcast.com/menashy-zakharia/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

FreshEd is on break! While we are away, we'll re-play some of our favourite episodes. Two quick notes: First, please consider donating to FreshEd to keep us open access and ad-free. https://paypal.me/FreshEdPodcast Second, applications are open for Season 3 of FreshEd Flux. Apply now! https://freshedpodcast.com/flux/apply/ -- Hi FreshEd listeners. Some of you might have heard that the UK university sector has called for 18 days of strikes between February and March. We’re striking because pay has declined over 25 percent in real terms since 2010; our pensions have been cut on average by 35 percent; the sector relies on short-term, exploitative contracts; and there are massive gender and ethnic pay gaps. We can’t provide the proper learning conditions for our students when our working conditions are so dismal. Five years ago we aired a show about higher education in the UK. It coincided with an earlier round of industrial action. So I wanted to re-play this episode since reimagining he university is exactly what we are still trying to do today. This will be the last re-run before new episodes air next week. For now, enjoy this episode and please show your support for the striking university staff across the UK. -- Today, we explore the university strikes in the United Kingdom. My guests are Ioannis Costas Batlle and Aurelien Mondon, lecturers at the University of Bath and participants in the Bath Teach Outs. Based on their experiences in the current labor movement sweeping the UK, they find an alternative to the neoliberal university. Their new co-written blog post entitled "University Strikes: Reclaiming a space for emancipatory education" was published by Discover Society. Learn more about the strikes here: https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/12469/FAQs www.freshedpodcast.com/batlle-mondon -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

FreshEd is on break! While we are away, we'll re-play some of our favourite episodes. Two quick notes: First, please consider donating to FreshEd to keep us open access and ad-free. https://paypal.me/FreshEdPodcast Second, applications are open for Season 3 of FreshEd Flux. Apply now! https://freshedpodcast.com/flux/apply/ -- Today we explore youth violence in Trinidad with my guest Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams. Hakim situates his study of Trinidad within the country’s colonial past. He is also actively creating a new paradigm to address youth violence that blends a systems approach with restorative justice practices. Hakim Williams is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Education at Gettysburg College. Early this year, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity (AC4) at The Earth Institute, Columbia University. In today’s show, Hakim discusses his article, “A Neocolonial Warp of Outmoded Hierarchies, Curricula and Disciplinary Technologies in Trinidad’s Educational System,” which can be found in the latest issue of Critical Studies of Education. https://freshedpodcast.com/hakimwilliams/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

FreshEd is on break! While we are away, we'll re-play some of our favourite episodes. Two quick notes: First, please consider donating to FreshEd to keep us open access and ad-free. https://paypal.me/FreshEdPodcast Second, applications are open for Season 3 of FreshEd Flux. Apply now! https://freshedpodcast.com/flux/apply/ -- Today we look at the power of Participatory Action Research in public science. My guest is Michelle Fine. In the 1990s, she worked on a study called Changing Minds, which looked at the impact of college in a maximum-security prison. The research team comprised of women in and outside of prison. For Michelle, participatory action research plays an important role in the struggle for social justice. It not only can change legislation, impact critical social theory, and mobilize popular opinion for educational justice; but seemingly small issues can also have deep and lasting implications. Michelle Fine is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York where she is a founding member of the Public Science Project. www.freshedpodcast.com/michellefine -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

FreshEd is on break! While we are away, we'll re-play some of our favourite episodes. Two quick notes: First, please consider donating to FreshEd to keep us open access and ad-free. https://paypal.me/FreshEdPodcast Second, applications are open for Season 3 of FreshEd Flux. Apply now! https://freshedpodcast.com/flux/apply/ -- In our fast-changing word, how should we think about curriculum? For what macro competencies should education aim? And has the COVID-19 pandemic revealed any failures in our education systems worldwide? These are difficult questions to answer and dependent on context. To help make sense of these questions, UNESCO’s International Bureau of Education has recently published a set of normative documents to help guide the future of curriculum in the 21st Century. Today Dr. Mmantsetsa Marope, the Director of the International Bureau of Education, joins me to talk about a competence-based curriculum that can support the attainment of the Education 2030 agenda. Dr. Marope has extensive experience in education, including 11 years as a university professor, 10 years at the World Bank, and 11 years in the United Nations. www.freshedpodcast.com/mmantsetsamarope -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

FreshEd is on break! While we are away, we'll re-play some of our favourite episodes. Two quick notes: First, please consider donating to FreshEd to keep us open access and ad-free. https://paypal.me/FreshEdPodcast Second, applications are open for Season 3 of FreshEd Flux. Apply now! https://freshedpodcast.com/flux/apply/ -- The World Bank hasn’t always made loans to education. Post-World War II, the Bank focused mainly on infrastructure. Even when it did start lending to education in the 1960s, it used the idea of manpower planning, the process of estimating the number of people with specific skills required for completing a project. Only in the 1970s did the World Bank begin to think of education in terms of rates of return: the cost-benefit calculation that uses expected future earning from one’s educational attainment. The introduction of rates of return inside the World Bank was no easy process. The internal fights by larger-than-life personalities were the stuff legends are made from. Yet, these disputes often go unnoticed, hidden behind glossy reports and confidence. Today Stephen Heyneman takes us back in time when he introduced rates of return to the World Bank. He discusses how he used them to his advantage and how he ultimately lost his job because of them. Stephen Heyneman is Professor Emeritus of international education policy at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. He served the World Bank for 22 years between 1976 and 1998. Citation: Heyneman, Stephen, interview with Will Brehm, FreshEd, 155, podcast audio, May 20, 2019. https://www.freshedpodcast.com/heyneman/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

FreshEd is on break! While we are away, we'll re-play some of our favourite episodes. Two quick notes: First, please consider donating to FreshEd to keep us open access and ad-free. https://paypal.me/FreshEdPodcast Second, applications are open for Season 3 of FreshEd Flux. Apply now! https://freshedpodcast.com/flux/apply/ -- Today we explore the relationship between UNESCO and the World Bank from the 1960s through today. My guest is Maren Elfert. She has recently published in the International Journal of Educational Development an article entitled “The power struggle over education in developing countries: the Case of the UNESCO-World Bank Co-operative program, 1964-1989.” Maren Elfert is a lecturer in education and society in the school of education, communication and society at King’s College London. Citation: Elfert, Maren, interview with Will Brehm, FreshEd, 234, podcast audio, March 29, 2021. https://freshedpodcast.com/elfert/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

As the year draws to a close, I’ve invited Susan Robertson and Mario Novelli to reflect on the past 12 months. What were the big events in 2022 and how might they impact the field of comparative and international education? We discuss a range of issues from protests to conflict to elections. We even touch on a few existential issues. I hope you enjoy the conversation and wish you a happy and safe new year. Mario Novelli is professor in the political economy of education at the University of Sussex. Susan Robertson is a professor of sociology of education. They co-edit the journal Globalization, Societies and Education. freshedpodcast.com/2022inreview -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we look at a UNESCO development project started in the early 1950s in Central Mexico that promoted fundamental education. My guests, Luis Urrieta and Judith Landeros, critique the common narrative of the project, revealing problematic deficit perspectives as well as nuanced counterstories of silenced voices. Luis Urrieta, Jr. is an Indigenous (P’urhépecha)/Latino interdisciplinary researcher. He currently holds the Charles H. Spence, Sr. Centennial Professorship in Education at the University of Texas at Austin where Judith Landeros is a doctoral student in the Cultural Studies in Education program with a certificate in Native American and Indigenous studies. Their new article is featured in the August issue of the Comparative Education Review. freshedpodcast.com/urrieta-landeros -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Trying to write this introduction, I’m stuck looking at a blank page. The cursor is blinking, teasing me to say something, anything. But I can’t. I’m stuck. Has that ever happened to you – the stress of writing? It’s not unusual. And yet writing is essential. We communicate by writing. We process ideas by writing. Writing provides us a creative outlet. So how do people approach the writing process? Over the past year, I’ve asked FreshEd guests how they write. In today’s episode, you’ll hear from a range of people providing diverse perspectives on writing. You’ll hear that no one approaches writing the same way. Hopefully there will be some insight into the writing process that can help you become a better writer. freshedpodcast.com/305-questionnaire -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today Michael Rumbelow joins me to talk about his FreshEd Flux episode. I recommend you listen to that episode before you continue with this one. In our conversation today, we talk about maths education and the power of block play. We even listen to a few clips of Michael’s Flux episode to dissect the subtext and sounds. Michael Rumbelow is a PhD student at the University of Bristol. freshedpodcast.com/rumbelow -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we air the last episode of Flux Season 2. Flux is a FreshEd series where graduate students turn their research interests into narrative-based podcasts. This episode was created by Michael Rumbelow, a PhD student at the University of Bristol. In his Flux episode, Michael takes listeners on a sonic journey to explore block play. He weaves together sounds and ideas to show the power and possibilities of play. I hope you enjoy today’s episode. freshedpodcast.com/flux-rumbelow -- Credits: This episode was created, written, produced and edited by Michael Rumbelow. Johannah Fahey was the executive producer. Brett Lashua and Will Brehm were the producers. Vicki Mitchem played Virginia Woolf and Bertha Ronge, Dave Jackson played Friedrich Froebel, Karl Marx, and Charles Dickens, and Simone Datzberger played Melanie Klein. Studio audio technicians were Patrick Robinson and Simon Vause. Thank you and Aray to Sifo Lakaw, chairman of the Association of Pangcah Language Revitalization in Taiwan, Adrian Rooke, Druid of the order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, Gregg Wagstaff, and the National Film Board of Canada, for kindly giving me permissions to use recordings. With many thanks to Professor Alf Coles for educating my awareness. And a special thank you to Gene for the Minecraft interview and stop-motion animation. Sound effects and music credits can be found at freshedpodcast.com/flux-rumbelow -- Learn more about Flux: freshedpodcast.com/flux/about/ Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today Aizuddin and Nazmi Anuar join me to talk about Aizuddin’s FreshEd Flux episode. I recommend you listen to that episode before you continue with this one. In today's episode, we discuss the power of memory when thinking about development and excavate some of the layers in Aizuddin’s Flux episode. Aizuddin Anuar is a lecturer in education at Keele University and his brother, Nazmi, teaches architecture in Malaysia. freshedpodcast.com/anuar -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we air the next episode of Flux, a FreshEd series where graduate students turn their research interests into narrative-based podcasts. This episode was created by Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar, who recently graduated with his PhD from Oxford and is now a lecturer in education at Keele University. In his Flux episode, Aizuddin problematizes the meaning of development. Is development always a forward motion? Or does it weave side to side like a river? And how does development get written onto lives? Is it always bad? Is it always good? Aizuddin meanders through these questions, connecting family memory to the development of Malaysia. freshedpodcast.com/flux-anuar -- Credits: Episode created, written, produced, and edited by Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar. Executive Producer: Johannah Fahey Producers: Brett Lashua and Will Brehm Voices: Narrator, Inner monologue, Translation of Mak, Willard C. Bush: Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar Long: Nazmi Anuar Joint reading from text: Nazmi Anuar and Ahmad Akif Mak: Noraini Ahmad Young people: Students of SMK Padang Midin, Malaysia (courtesy of their English teacher, Mr. Pravindharan Balakrishnan) Music and Sounds: Acoustic guitar compositions (Blues Sungai Seluar, Hujan Pagi, Menyusuri Sungai Jelai, Blues Jambatan Gantung, Bunga Cengang, Balada Kilang Rokok): Ahmad Black Link: https://ahmadblack.bandcamp.com/releases Camera Click Sound Effect by Soundstripe Link: https://app.soundstripe.com/sfx/63925 Chainsaw Sound Effect by InspectorJ Link: https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/418042/ Clock Ticking Sound Effect by Soundstripe Link: https://app.soundstripe.com/sfx/32756 Construction Site Sound Effect by Soundstripe Link: https://app.soundstripe.com/sfx/198 Critters in the rural environment: Recorded by Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar Dial-up Internet Sound Effect by Free Sounds Library Link: https://www.freesoundslibrary.com/dial-up-internet-sound/ Drilling Rig Sound Effect by fkunze Link: https://freesound.org/people/fkunze/sounds/407454/ Elephant Sound Effect by geronimo83 https://freesound.org/people/geronimo83/sounds/103117/ Elevator opening and going up: Recorded by Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar Gas Flaring and Fire Sound Effect by Soundstripe Link: https://app.soundstripe.com/sfx/3669 Hammer on Metal Sound Effect by Soundstripe Link: https://app.soundstripe.com/sfx/39457 People Chattering Sound Effect by Breviceps Link: https://freesound.org/people/Breviceps/sounds/465699/ Thunder and Rainfall Sound Effect by Soundstripe Link: https://app.soundstripe.com/sfx/48305 Tiger Sound Effect by Soundstripe Link: https://app.soundstripe.com/sfx/62307 Traffic sounds in Kuala Lumpur: Recorded by Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar Underwater Bubbles Sound Effect by Soundstripe Link: https://app.soundstripe.com/sfx/34316 Various River and Water Sounds: Recorded by Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar -- Learn more about Flux: freshedpodcast.com/flux/about/ Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Here we are. 300 episodes. I can’t believe it really. FreshEd has been putting out regular content for 2,569 days. That’s just over 7 years and averages a new episode every 8.5 days. We’ve produced close to 200 hours of recorded conversations about education broadly defined. Over 1 million words transcribed. In that time, we started a fellowship program for graduate students and two spin-off podcasts in other languages. There are so many people to thank, from the FreshEd team, who make this all possible, to our big institutional donors, who give us the freedom to produce independent content. I don’t have time to thank everyone who makes FreshEd possible. But I’d like to pay special tribute to the thousands of listeners who tune in every week from across the globe. Because of you, the whole FreshEd team devotes countless hours to make the show possible week after week. So thank you. Thank you for your support, your engagement, and your shared love of education and podcasts. We’ll keep going so long as you keep listening. I didn’t know the best way to celebrate 300. Reflecting on the past 7 years I started wondering about the pre-history of FreshEd. Where did the idea come from? Who shaped its direction? And then I remembered the name Greg Skutches, a mentor to me during my undergraduate studies at Lehigh University. Greg saw education as an end in itself, not some means to another end like a high paying job. He loved learning and supporting the process of student learning. Recently he’s written an op-ed in the school newspaper where he calls for us to reimagine higher education as a Carnival of Learning. I love that phrase: a Carnival of Learning where anything is possible. I think it captures the idea Greg instilled in me nearly 15 years ago. I also think it’s what I’ve always wanted FreshEd to be. So to celebrate this podcasting milestone I’ve invited Greg Skutches on the show. In our conversation, we discuss topics far beyond FreshEd. We get into the purpose and meaning of education. What it means to have a voice. And learn from our failures. To push boundaries. And take on institutional power. Greg Skutches is the Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at Lehigh University and teaches courses in the university’s English department. freshedpodcast.com/skutches -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we air the next episode of Flux. This episode was created by Bhavani Kunjulakshmi, a recent graduate of the UCL Institute of Education and staff writer at Feminism in India. Bhavani’s episode explores the meaning of colonization and decolonization in international development and education. We might think we know what colonization is. The history. The actors involved. The exploitation. But what does it feel like? And then what would it mean to decolonize? And what would that feel like? Bhavani explores these questions. freshedpodcast.com/flux-kunjulakshmi -- This episode was created, written, produced and edited by Bhavani Kunjulakshmi. Johannah Fahey was the executive producer. Brett Lashua and Will Brehm were the producers. Fred Brehm read the quote by Noah Chomsky and Fran Vavrus read the quote by Martha Nussbaum. Music was composed by M.C Couper The bell hooks’ clip was a part of ‘A Public Dialogue between bell hooks & Laverne Cox hosted by Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts’ (Creative commons) The clip of Amartya Sen was a part of ‘Equality and growth – an interview with Amartya Sen’ (Creative commons) Quote by Noam Chomsky about Kerala was from Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Noam Chomsky, Howard Gardner, and Bruno della Chiesa Askwith Forum (Creative commons) Quotes by Martha Nussbaum was from “Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach” (Creative commons) Music: The Spirituals Project – Sankofa – Oh Freedom (Creative commons) -- Learn more about Flux: freshedpodcast.com/flux/about/ Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today Yanan Yu joins me to talk about her FreshEd Flux episode, which aired last week. Spoiler alert: we talk about her episode in depth in today’s show, so if you haven’t already listened to her episode, I recommend you do so right now. Really, hit pause, go back and listen to her flux episode, and then come back here to go behind the scenes. In our conversation today, Yanan details what it’s like to live in a vision centric world and the difficulty of making a podcast. She talks about moving to the United Kingdom and inclusive education. Yanan Yu completed her master’s degree at the University of Bristol and recently finished an internship at the BBC. She is currently looking to enrol in a PhD program where she can further her studies on inclusive education. freshedpodcast.com/yu -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we start the second season of Flux, a FreshEd series where graduate students turn their research interests into narrative-based podcasts. To kick things off, Yanan Yu tells a story that raises some interesting questions about how ability should be defined. Is it enough that she has a level ten certification in piano? And a master’s degree? And now works at the BBC? Or does she need something else to be considered able? freshedpodcast.com/flux-yu -- Today’s episode was created, written, produced, and edited by Yanan Yu. Johannah Fahey was the executive producer and Brett Lashua and Will Brehm were the producers. Flux theme music by Joseph Minadeo of Pattern Based music. The piano pieces in this episode, listed below, are all played by Yanan Yu: Claude Debussy: Ballade L. 70 Frederic Chopin: Etudes Op. 10 No. 3 Franz Liszt : Un Sospiro, Trois Etudes de Concert S.144 Sergei Rachmaninoff: Elegy Op. 3 No. 1 Wanghua Chu, 春江舟影 Thanks to Haozhou Ding, Zeyu Wang, Yishuang Xu, Xiaotong Wang and other activists across the globe. Yanan would not have been able to express the complexities surrounding this issue without their support. Finally, Yanan hopes that her efforts may contribute to some changes, however small, in her peers’ lives. -- Learn more about Flux: freshedpodcast.com/flux/about/ Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we explore the meaning of regionalism in the South Pacific. With me is Seu’ula Johansson-Fua who uses the concept of Wansolwara to think about creating a regionalism from within the “sea of islands” that is the South Pacific. Seu’ula Johansson-Fua is the director of the institute of education at the University of the South Pacific. Her new article is Wansolwara: Sustainable Development, Education and Regional Collaboration in Oceania, which was published in the Comparative Education Review. freshedpodcast.com/johansson-fua -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today Kehaulani Vaughn joins me to discuss Trans-Indigenous education primarily on Turtle Island, the name used by Indigenous peoples for North America. Kēhaulani Vaughn (Kanaka Maoli) is an assistant professor in the Department of Education, Culture, and Society and the Pacific Islands Studies Initiative at the University of Utah. She has recently co-written, with Theresa Jean Ambo, an article entitled “Trans-Indigenous Education: Indigeneity, Relationships, and Higher Education” which was published in the Comparative Education Review. freshedpodcast.com/vaughn -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today You Yun joins me to talk about Social-Emotional Learning (SEL). She critiques the approach to SEL advocated by western organizations by showing how conceptions of the self, other, and emotions are not universal. By exploring these concepts from Confucian and Daoist philosophies, she begins to show alternative ways to think about SEL. You Yun is an Associate Professor in the department of Education at the East China Normal University. Her new article is "Learn to become a unique interrelated person: An alternative of social-emotional learning drawing on Confucianism and Daoism," which was published in Educational Philosophy and Theory. freshedpodcast.com/you -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today Mir Abdullah Miri joins me to talk about his escape from Afghanistan and takes me inside the production of “The Desert of Death,” an episode he made for the Intercepted podcast. Mir Abdullah Miri is an Afghanistan Observatory Scholar at New America. In Afghanistan, he served on the faculty of Herat University. In the fall of 2021, Miri was evacuated from Kabul to England, and now lives in Bath. freshedpodcast.com/miri -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we explore higher education assessment for disabled students. My guest is Juuso Nieminen, an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong. Juuso argues that assessment adjustments are often technical processes that presuppose a medical logical. Juuso’s new article is “A spanner in the works: the portrayal of disabled students in assessment adjustment research” which was published in the journal International Studies in Sociology of Education. freshedpodcast.com/nienminen -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

It’s great to be back after an extended holiday. I’m recharged and ready to go. We have an exciting line-up for the rest of the year, including our FreshEd Flux episodes. Before we start today, I’d like say hello to all our new listeners who may be joining us for the first time as they start their degrees at universities across the Northern Hemisphere. I hope you find FreshEd useful in your studies and please be sure to get in touch! We love hearing from listeners. Over the past few weeks on holiday, I’ve been doing a lot of reading. It’s been really relaxing. Reading is a fundamental part of education. There’s no way around it. There’s even an idea called “foundational literacy” that is being championed – not without controversy -- within international development circles. But let’s put that to one side. I’m more interested in what people are reading. Have you ever wondered what some of your teachers or fellow peers are reading? Today we continue our mini-series called the FreshEd Questionnaire. Over the past eight months, I’ve asked FreshEd guests a set of standard questions after each interview. These questions ask guests how they approach writing, reading, research, and supervision. These are the day-to-day activities we do inside universities, but perhaps don’t talk too much about them. I want to talk about them. The first volume in this mini-series, which you should go back to listen to if you haven’t, explored research supervision. It offers great insight and tips for new university students. In today’s episode we explore books. I asked guests who are their favourite writers and why? What we learn is that academics read far and wide. Some stick to academic texts directly in the field of education. Others read non-fiction far beyond the field of education. And still others devour fiction, using it as a source of inspiration in their own academic work. My hope is by listening to this mash-up of voices you’ll think about your own reading habits and realize the value of reading in education. I hope you enjoy the show! freshedpodcast.com/291-questionnaire -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Hi FreshEd Listeners. We’re on holiday for the month of August. We’ll be back in September with new episodes, including the next round of Flux. I’ve already listened to a few rough cuts and they’re going to be great. While we’re away, please send us your recommendations for future guests as well as consider donating to FreshEd to keep independent media alive. FreshEd is nothing without you. Thanks for all your support and I’ll be back in September! freshedpodcast.com/contact-2/ -- Today the journalist, author, and academic, Gary Younge, joins me to talk about race, identity, and education. Our conversation starts with his reflections on the UK Government’s Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, which published its report in March. We then touch on a range of issues from across his career. Gary Younge is a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester. He worked for the Guardian newspaper for two decades and has written five books. His book Who are We – and should it matter in the 21st century? was recently re-released with an updated introduction. In May, he released his latest BBC radio documentary called Thinking in Colour. freshedpodcast.com/younge/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Hi FreshEd Listeners. We’re on holiday for the month of August. We’ll be back in September with new episodes, including the next round of Flux. I’ve already listened to a few rough cuts and they’re going to be great. While we’re away, please send us your recommendations for future guests as well as consider donating to FreshEd to keep independent media alive. FreshEd is nothing without you. Thanks for all your support and I’ll be back in September! https://freshedpodcast.com/contact-2/ -- Did you know that today there are more forcibly displaced people than at any time since World War II? The total number comes out to roughly 65 million, including internally displaced peoples, asylum seekers, and refugees. That’s roughly 1 out of every 113 people on Earth. Today I speak with three professors from Teachers College, Columbia University about their research project on refugees, which is being funded by the United States Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration. At Teachers College, Mary Mendenhall is an Assistant Professor of Practice in International and Comparative Education; Garnett Russell is an Assistant Professor of International and Comparative Education; and Elizabeth Buckner is a Visiting Assistant Professor in International Comparative Education. https://freshedpodcast.com/marygarnettelizabeth/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Hi FreshEd Listeners. We’re on holiday for the month of August. We’ll be back in September with new episodes, including the next round of Flux. I’ve already listened to a few rough cuts and they’re going to be great. While we’re away, please send us your recommendations for future guests as well as consider donating to FreshEd to keep independent media alive. FreshEd is nothing without you. Thanks for all your support and I’ll be back in September! https://freshedpodcast.com/contact-2/ -- There’s an urban legend that Winston Churchill, near the end of World War II, once said “never let a good crisis go to waste.” President Obama’s chief of staff, Rahman Emanuel, certainly said similar words in 2009 after the Global Financial Crisis. Is the crisis in education today caused by the coronavirus an opportunity to make lasting and positive change? How can we be sure not to waste this moment by returning to normal? Yong Zhao joins me to talk about educational change in the time of COVID-19. He argues that we must change the “yes, but” attitude to a “yes, and” collaborative approach. We must be innovative and work together to redesign education systems into something new. He’s hoping to see more self-directed learning emerge out of this crisis as well as a shift towards the humanities and philosophy. Yong Zhao is a Foundation Distinguished Professor in the School of Education at the University of Kansas. His newest book is entitled Teaching Students to Become Self-Determined Learners (ASCD, 2020). www.freshedpodcast.com/yongzhao-2/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Hi FreshEd Listeners. We’re on holiday for the month of August. We’ll be back in September with new episodes, including the next round of Flux. I’ve already listened to a few rough cuts and they’re going to be great. While we’re away, please send us your recommendations for future guests as well as consider donating to FreshEd to keep independent media alive. FreshEd is nothing without you. Thanks for all your support and I’ll be back in September! https://freshedpodcast.com/contact-2/ -- Today we continue our exploration of Teach for All. Two weeks ago, we explored Teach for All counter-narratives. Now we look at empirical research evidence across contexts where Teach for All operates. With me are Matthew Thomas, Emilee Rauschenberger and Katy Crawford-Garrett who have recently co-edited Examining Teach For All: International Perspectives on a Growing Global Network. The collection “brings together research focused on Teach for All and its affiliate programmes to explore the organization’s impact on education around the world.” Matthew A.M. Thomas is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Education and Sociology of Education at the University of Sydney; Emilee Rauschenberger is Senior Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University; and Katy Crawford-Garrett is an Associate Professor of Teacher Education, Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of New Mexico. freshedpodcast.com/teach-for-all/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we explore the role of students and youth in global education governance. With me is Sebastian Berger, the Executive Director of the Global Student Forum. The Global Student Forum is the umbrella organisation of the world’s major representative student federations and the only independent, democratic and representative student governance structure dedicated to promoting the rights and perspectives of student organisations and movements on the global level. Sebastian Berger has been an active member of the international student movement for years, holding various leadership positions on the local, national and international level. He previously held the office of Vice President in the European Students’ Union (ESU) and was a founding member of the GSF Steering Committee. He’s currently paused his Master’s degree to work full-time with the Global Student Forum. freshedpodcast.com/berger -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we explore the birth of global economic governance and the myth of equal sovereignty. We look at early efforts of international development and technical assistance, revealing how many of the tensions that existed in the early 1900s are still with us today. My guest is Jamie Martin an Assistant Professor of History and Social Studies at Harvard University. His new book is The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance. https://freshedpodcast.com/jamiemartin -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

FreshEd has a new podcast! It's called Aula Divergente and it's in Spanish. The show, which airs on Fridays, is series-based (that is, we'll air a group of episodes around a single topic before moving to the next) and focuses on educational issues across Latin America. It's hosted by Daniela Hernández and Carlos Navia. Today Dani and Carlos join me to talk about Aula Divergente. We then play the first full epsiode, which is of course in Spanish. You can find an English-translation on our website. Please make sure you subscribe to our new show here: https://freshedpodcast.com/auladivergente/subscribe/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Special announcement: FreshEd started a Spanish-language podcast called Aula Divergente! Subscribe now: https://freshedpodcast.com/auladivergente/subscribe/ -- Today we explore mass shootings in the USA. My guest is Dinur Blum who explores this phenomenon using a sociological lens. Dinur Blum is a lecturer in the department of Sociology at California State University, Los Angeles. Together with Christian Gonzalez Jaworski, he published the book Critical Mass: Understanding and fixing the social roots of mass shootings in the United States. He is also the co-host of the podcast Learning Made Easier. freshedpodcast.com/blum -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

As many students in the Northern Hemisphere begin summer break, I thought it would be a good time to reflect on and reimagine universities. Ian Cook and Prem Kumar Rajaram join me today to talk about their new Open Access co-edited volume, Opening up the University: Teaching and Learning with Refugees, which was put together with Celine Cantat. Ian M. Cook is Director of Studies at the Open Learning Initiative (OLIve), Budapest located at the Central European University (CEU), where Prem Kumar Rajaram is Professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology and Head of the Open Learning Initiative. freshedpodcast.com/cook-rajaram -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/