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Love the podcast? Become a member to support FreshEd! freshedpodcast.com/support/#join -- Today we interrogate the idea of creativity. My guest, Oli Mould, says 21st Century capitalism has redefined creativity from being a power to create something from nothing to the ability to create new products for markets. Creativity, in other words, feeds capitalism’s own growth. Students and workers alike a...

Love the podcast? Become a member to support FreshEd! freshedpodcast.com/support/#join -- Today we go inside the pledging event for the Global Partnership for Education, held during this year's UN General Assembly in New York, where donors announced new commitments to finance education. What does it mean to pledge money to the future? And how do those promises reorder things in the present? My gue...

Love the podcast? Become a member to support FreshEd! https://freshedpodcast.com/support/#join -- Today we explore the education origins of the cockroach protests in India. My guest is Susan Ann Samuel. Susan Ann Samuel is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in International Climate Politics at the University of Leeds. She’s recently written in The Conversation about India’s cockroach Movement. -- fres...

Join our growing FreshEd community to support the podcast and receive exclusive benefits. Sign up at FreshEdpodcast.com. -- Today, Linda Darling-Hammond joins me to talk about her new co-authored book Empowered Educators: How high-performing systems shape teaching quality around the world. The book explores how several countries and jurisdictions have developed comprehensive teaching and learning...

If you want to join our growing community, sign up at FreshEdpodcast.com. -- Today we take stock of academic publishing in education research. From the massive growth in article submissions, to the growing profit margins of the major publishers and to the impact Generative AI is having on scholarship – we take a critical look at the state of publishing. With me is Gustavo Fischman who was the prev...

Love the podcast? Become a member to support FreshEd! https://freshedpodcast.com/support/#join -- Today we mark the 25th anniversary of September 11th by unpacking that day’s lasting impact on society, culture, and schools in the United States. My Guest is Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher. Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Teaching Beyond Septemb...

FreshEd will be back next week with new episodes! Not a member? Join us! https://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...

If you're a student, FreshEd now has a membership tier just for you. StudentFresh is $5/month and helps keep FreshEd free and open for everyone, while giving you a way to directly support the show. https://freshedpodcast.com/support/#studentfresh -- 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 Kryst...

We've launched a student membership tier. Join today if you are a student who wants to support the work of FreshEd! https://freshedpodcast.com/support/#studentfresh -- Today we explore the philosophy of education from global perspectives. My guest is Liz Jackson. Liz Jackson is the Karen Lo Eugene Chuang Professor in Diversity and Equity and Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Education at...

Today we explore the research base that tries to answer if Generative AI improves student learning. My guest, Alyssa Lawson, recently co-wrote an article that critically analysed two meta analyses of ChatGPT that found it did indeed improve learning. Alyssa and her colleagues aren’t so sure. Alyssa Lawson is a lecturer in the department of psychological and brain sciences at Johns Hopkins Universi...

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. freshedpodcast.com/wallace/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd E...

Today we explore the adoption and scaling of education technology across South and Southeast Asia. My guests are Molly Wyss and Brad Olsen. Molly Wyss is an assistant project director at the Centre for Universal Education in the Global Economy and Development Program at Brookings, where Brad Olsen is a Senior Fellow. There new report is entitled From Access to Impact: Government Decisionmaking and...

Today we unpack various sources of distortion when calculating standardised effect sizes in education evaluations. This might seem technical, but understanding how measures of effectiveness are calculated can help us temper the confidence we place in claims about "what works." My guest is Jack Rossiter. Jack Rossiter is an independent researcher and non-resident fellow at the Centre for Global Dev...

How do teachers learn to teach? My guests today, Maria Teresa Tatto and Ian Menter, discuss the many paths to become a teacher in England and the USA and the policy environment that is shaping current practice. Learning to be a teacher, they argue, requires much more than simply having a lot of content knowledge. Just because you may know math really well does not mean that you would be a good mat...

Today we explore the Rohingya refugee crisis. My guest, Chris Henderson, conducted research on teacher motivation in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, which is home to over 1 million Rohingya refugees. Chris Henderson is an Education in Emergencies Specialist at NORRAG at the Geneva Graduate Institute. His latest article, which entitled “Through teaching I found myself again”: The role of self-efficacy i...

Today we continue our exploration of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and what it means for education. Last week, we looked at comparative education as a field. Today we look at teachers. What are the prospects and perils of the fourth industrial revolution for teachers? My guest today is Jelmer Evers. Jelmer is a teacher, blogger, writer, and innovator. He teaches history at UniC in the Netherlan...

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 Rese...

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 Col...

Today we unpack the massive global hack of the Canvas Learning Management System in May 2026 that impacted some 9000 education institutions and stole an estimated 275 million users’ data. To discuss this event and its implications with me is Claire Bond Potter. Claire Bond Potter is Professor of History emeritus at The New School for Social Research, author of the Political Junkie Substack, and cr...

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...

What’s the value of higher education in terms of civic engagement? My guests today, Leping Mou and Ray Mitic, try to answer that question empirically. Leping Mou is a lecturer in education at the University of Glasgow. Ray Mitic is an assistant professor of higher education at William & Mary. Their new paper is entitled: “The Value of Higher Education in Cultivating Engaged Citizens: Longitudinal...

Today we have a slightly different type of show for you. One of FreshEd’s producers, Lushik Wahba, created an amazing podcast about the experiences of international students at one small college in the USA. Over 1 million international students currently study at colleges and universities across America. Why did they choose to study in the USA? What can we learn from their experiences? Lushik’s po...

Support FreshEd by becoming a member today! https://freshedpodcast.com/support/ -- Today we explore how Apple Classroom impacts teaching and learning. My guest is Cormac Mac Gabhann. Cormac Mac Gabhann teaches secondary school in Dublin and is a PhD student at University College Dublin. His latest article is entitled “Apple Classroom and subjectification – an exploration of the tension between con...

FreshEd will return with new episodes next week. While we are away, we thought it would be good to showcase one of our first "non-interview" shows. Although made over 6 years ago, the ideas, themes, and urgency of the climate crisis continue to resonate today. If you're keen to partner with FreshEd to turn your work into a narrative style podcast, please get in touch. -- School students all over t...

Today we try to imagine alternatives to the traditional ways of understanding sustainability in higher education. My guest is Olga Mun. Olga Mun is an early-career researcher and co-convenor of the Climate Change Education Reading Group at the Department of Education, University of Oxford. She’s recently co-written with Gulzhanat Gafu and Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar a piece for the Comparative Educatio...