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If you find FreshEd a valuable educational resource, please consider joining our community. Membership starts for as little as $10/month. Sign up at FreshEdpodcast.com -- Today we take a look behind the curtain of the FreshEd Flux episode entitled “I am Karen,” which was created by Suwandee Thatsanaprai, who is known as Beaw. If you haven’t listened to Beaw’s Flux episode yet, hit stop now and go...

Today we launch the next and final episode of Flux for Season 3. In this episode, Suwandee Thatsanaprai, known as Beaw, shines a light on the Karen ethnic minority in Thailand. She shows the structural effects of colonization and the affective dimensions of racism. And she ponders the connections between language and identity. Beaw is a Thai-Karen education development practitioner currently worki...

If you find FresHEd a valuable educational resource, please consider joining our community. Membership starts for as little as $10/month. Sign up at FreshEdpodcast.com -- Today we look behind the curtain of Peter Browning’s FreshEd Flux episode entitled “Listening to the Soundosphere.” If you haven’t listened to his Flux episode yet, hit stop now and go find it in your podcast feed. Our conversati...

Today we air the next episode of Flux, a FreshEd series where graduate students turn their research interests into narrative based podcasts. In this episode, Peter Browning explores the power of the Soundosphere. His meta-engagement highlights the importance of sound in creating immersive experiences, the emotional and embodied aspects of ethnographic research, and the political and social implica...

If you find FreshEd a valuable educational resource, please consider joining our community. Membership starts for as little as $10/month. Sign up at FreshEdpodcast.com -- Today Chundou Her joins me to talk about their FreshEd Flux episode entitled "Hmagical Girl Academy: Confronting racism through collective healing." I recommend you listen to their Flux episode before you continue with this one....

Today we air the next episode of Flux. Chundou Her’s research is on Hmong student experiences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. It’s significant that UW-Madison is a predominantly white institution in the Midwest of the United States because the Hmong student experiences that Chundou explores is of racism in all its forms – from stereotypical ideas about model minorities, to its links to sex...

If you find FreshEd a valuable educational resource, please consider joining our community and receive exclusive benefits. Membership starts for as little as $10/month. Sign up at FreshEdpodcast.com -- Today Ijaaz Jackaria joins me to talk about his FreshEd Flux episode entitled "In the realm of the in between: An ode to ethnography in Mauritius." I recommend you listen to his Flux episode before...

Today we start season 3 of Flux, a FreshEd series where graduate students turn their research interests into narrative based podcasts. To kick things off, Ijaaz Jackaria’s episode is an ethnography of Mauritius and its colonial past, where he creates his own Southern epistemology by bringing together cosmology, philosophy, and Islamic theology. Let Season 3 of FreshEd Flux begin. https://freshedpo...

We are starting a FreshEd community and want you to join for as little as $10/month. If you want to join our growing community, please head over to FreshEdpodcast.com/support -- Today we explore how univeristies are turning into data-driven institutions. My guest is Janja Komljenovic. Janja Komljenovic is a senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Her new co-written article with Sam Sellar...

We are starting a FreshEd community and want you to join for as little as $10/month. If you want to join our growing community, please head over to FreshEdpodcast.com/support -- Today we explore the digital transformation of and in education. My guest is Ben Williamson who argues that we are witnessing a new digital infrastructure being built beneath our feet. The last time Ben joined FreshEd was...

Today we launch a new project at FreshEd called The Thinking Ear. The Thinking Ear is a collection of episodes produced by you, offering a sonic space to share ideas on education worldwide. Think of it as an audio journal. If you’re interested in developing your own podcast episode about your research, please get in touch. The Thinking Ear is open for submissions. We will offer support to develop...

We are starting a FreshEd community and want you to join for as little as $10/month. If you want to join our growing community, please head over to FreshEdpodcast.com/support -- Today we explore the rise of neuroscience in initial teacher education in Australia. My guests are Andrew Skourdoumbis and Emma Rowe. Andrew Skourdoumbis is an associate professor in education at Deakin University where Em...

A quick reminder before today’s episode: FreshEd is in the middle of its membership drive. Please sign up to become a member of FreshEd. We need your support. Join us today at freshedpodcast.com/support -- Today we remember Debbie Epstein, who recently passed away. Debbie was a major figure in the field of education whose work brought together cultural studies and sociology. Ever an activist, Debb...

Become a FreshEd Member today! https://freshedpodcast.com/support/ -- This week we look at elite private schools and how they are the engine of privilege. With me are Clive and Myra Hamilton. Clive Hamilton is a professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University and Myra Hamilton is Associate Professor in Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney Business School. Their new bo...

Before we start today’s episode, I want to encourage you to become a member of FreshEd. We are building a community of people around the world committed to the pursuit of knowledge and ideas related to education broadly defined. If you find FreshEd a valuable educational resource, then place sign up to become a member today: FreshEdpodacst.com/support -- Today we continue our mini-series called th...

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 approach...

Today we unpack the neuro-affective turn in education. With me are Kirsi Yliniva and Audrey Bryan. Kirsi Yliniva is a PhD researcher and university teacher in the Faculty of Education and Psychology at the University of Oulu. Audrey Bryan is an associate professor of sociology in the School of Human Development at Dublin City University’s Institute of Education. Together with Kristiina Brunila, th...

Today we unpack the global education policy known as School Autonomy with Accountability (SAWA). My guest is Gita Steiner-Khamsi who outlines the importance of using a temporal dimension when understanding policy borrowing and lending. Gita Steiner-Khamsi is the W. H. Kilpatrick Professor of Comparative Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and by courtesy Honorary UNESCO Chair in Com...

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 Edu...

Today we take stock of the midpoint of the Sustainable Development Goal for education, known as SDG4. Promulgated in 2015, SDG4 aims to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all” by 2030. So how we doing? With me to answer this question are Karen Mundy and Leonardo Garnier. Karen Mundy is a professor of Education policy and leadership at...

Today we explore decentralization in Indonesia. My guest is Sirojuddin Arif, head of the MA in Political Science Program at the International Islamic University of Indonesia. Sirojuddin Arif’s new co-written article is “Does decentralization promote learning? Local political settlements and education policies in Indonesia” which was published in Compare. freshedpodcast.com/arif/ -- Get in touch! T...

Today we explore the export of Finnish Education. My guest is Kimmo Kuortti who studies the effects of education export and other forms of education business on the domestic publicly funded education system in Finland. Kimmo Kuortti is a doctoral researcher at Tampere University. His new article “Repurposing public education: governmental rationality of education export in Finland through public e...

Today we think through the concept of power within the internationalization of higher education. My guest is Jenny Lee, professor at the Center for the Study of Higher Education and College of Education Dean's Fellow for Internationalization at the University of Arizona. Jenny Lee has a new edited collection entitled U.S. Power in International Higher Education, which was published by Rutgers Univ...

Today we unpack the ways in which the East India Company used knowledge and education to advance its interests in India. My guest is Joshua Ehrlich, an assistant professor at the University of Macau. His new book is The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge, which was published by Cambridge University Press. freshedpodcast.com/Ehrlich/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook:...

Today we explore what it means to decolonize education. My guests are Riyad Shahjahan, Annabelle Estera, and Kirsten Edwards. Together with Kristen Surla, they conducted a literature review of 207 articles about the topic. They show that the very idea of decolonizing takes on diverse meanings and subsequently is put into practice in different ways. They argue there is no one way or best practice t...