Another Education Is Possible

In the final episode of the second season, host Jordan Corson joins M.A. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies students from the Education, Genocide, Liberation course to explore education's role in this world and the one to come.

In this conceptual episode, professor and organizer Alexandria Hollett takes listeners through an exploration of the relationship between anarchism and education.

As we have explored several times on this podcast, education can be an opportunity. But, for what is it an opportunity? Who gets to pursue which opportunities? In this episode, Dr. Molly Hamm-Rodriguez poses these questions to explore youth workforce programs in the Dominican Republic and U.S. Where these programs aim to make education serve the racialized logics of human capital, Molly shows how...

In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Haeny Yoon and Dr. Nathan Holbert, hosts of the podcast Pop and Play. Host Bosco engages in a conversation about how education can and cannot be play both in and out of school. Is play present in school even if it is not apparent? What do cooking recipes have to do with play in schools? Additionally, Haeny and Nathan discuss the nuances of play, when play is b...

Ndindi Kitonga, PhD - educator, organizer, activist and co-founder of Angeles Workshop School - joins guest host Roy Danovitch to explore the pedagogical and political meanings of solidarity. Drawing from her experience growing up in Kawangware, Kenya, and her teaching and activism in Los Angeles and beyond, Ndindi frames anti-colonial pedagogy, democratic schooling, and mutual aid as inseparable...

For the next couple of episodes, guest host Dr. Roy Danovitch will be guest hosting. In this episode, Dr. Erica Colmenares joins Roy to discuss growing up in Venezuela, the work of affect theory in social justice teacher education, and how teaching might move beyond technocratic mastery.

Dr. Amanda Tachine threads stories for listeners. In doing so, she engages the complexities and possibilities of how indigenous people might engage with institutions of higher education. In this episode, Amanda's stories critically explore questions of visibility, access, and sovereignty. She thinks with indigenous youth and communities to present a vision of educational research and educational l...

Building on last week’s conversation regarding disability justice, Dr. Susan Baglieri joins Samantha Hoelhe and Bosco to discuss various aspects of disability education. We interrogate segregationist spaces and curricular guidelines, emphasize ways to create networks of collective access and caring, and highlight the importance of student autonomy and practices of resistance within and beyond spac...

Continuing our series of conceptual episode, Dr. Rae Leeper joins Sam and Jordan to talk about disability studies and education. The conversation explores disability justice, the ableism of schooling, and the awesome work of places like Castle Bridge School in New York City.

Early on in this episode, Dr. Roozbeh Shirazi, an Iranian scholar living and working in the Twin Cities, tells listeners that he sits at the center of a lot of Venn Diagrams in this political moment. But this "emergency" episode is not a dispatch. Instead, Roozbeh invites listeners to imagine ways that education can be a reclamation and reconfiguration of time. He presents an idea called "pedagogi...

In this episode, Dr. Thea Renda Abu El-Haj joins us to discuss her book Unsettled Belonging and her current work with Palestinian Nakba generation teachers. The discussion moves from how education invisibilizes U.S. empire to the ways that student encampments illuminate alternative spaces of scholarship and resistance. Dr. Abu El-Haj also explores the relentless censorship of those writing about P...

In this episode, hosts Emmy and Jordan speak to Dr. Jason Wozniak about debt, debtor power, critical consciousness, and collective power more broadly. Jason shares strategies, experiences, and philosophies that help us imagine and fight for educational worlds beyond debt.

In this episode of Another Education Is Possible , hosts Y and Jordan speak with Dr. Ahmed Junina, a Palestinian academic reflecting on education amid displacement and the destruction of universities in Gaza. The conversation explores scholasticide, teaching as a political and ethical practice, and how education functions as a way of resistance any kind of erasure and also survival under condition...

In this episode of Another Education Is Possible, hosts Jordan and Neli speak with Diana Rodríguez Gómez, Assistant Professor in the Educational Policy Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The conversation explores what education looks like in the context of armed conflict and examines the everyday rhythms of schooling in these challenging environments.

Dr. Mark Leier, in many ways, grew up at Simon Fraser University. From visiting the campus as a child to later teaching there, he has consistently sought to introduce democratic pedagogical methods into education. In this episode, he joins guest host Ermioni Vlachidou to reflect on his journey through different stages of being an educator and discusses how both he and his classes have evolved over...

On this week's episode, Dr Harper Keenan joins co-hosts Emmy and Jordan to discuss trans pedagogies and non-prescriptive curriculums. While these terms might be on the newer side of things in educational discourses, queer and trans people are not. Their educational experiences tell a multitude of stories that have all too often been invisiblized in schools. While attending to the relentless forces...

Sanctuary in school can be a way of thinking about how to protect immigrant students. As Dr. Chandler Miranda shows in this episode, making schools into sanctuaries requires shifts in the very foundations of schooling. This means reframing what knowledges are centered, how teachers think with their students (particularly marginalized students) from an asset-based perspective, and altering common s...

Continuing our series of short, conceptual episodes, Dr. Monisha Bajaj joins the podcast to describe what peace education looks like, its limits, and how educators might engage in it.

Dr. Noah Romero thinks with skaters, punk rockers, and unschoolers. Guided by indigenous knowledges, he conjures collective forms of decolonial education. Dr. Romero joins co-hosts Jordan and Sam to discuss what these diverse topics have to do with one another and how decolonial anarchist pedagogies might offer possibilities for public school teachers.

Within radical education, solidarity is a popular topic. What does it actually look like? How is it taught, learned, studied, and practiced? In this episode, hosts Jordan and Y chat with Dr. Shatara and Dr. Saleh to explore educational solidarity with and for Palestine and Palestinians.

In her recent book, Indebted Mobilities, Dr. Susan Thomas explores migrant students' material and affective encounters with debt in U.S. universities. She joins the podcast to explore the ways that higher education institutions specifically and empire more broadly aim to produce indebted migrant subjects. This wide ranging conversation also emphasizes how students negotiate and resist. That is, ev...

Dr. Cath Goulding has been a constant presence in our Education, Genocide, Liberation course. She joins the podcast to share intimate and haunting stories of education within the concentration camps in which the U.S. incarcerated more than 120,000 people. In this conversation with hosts "Bosco" and "Sarah," Cath weaves narratives of her mother being born in one of these camps with an urgent call t...

In our first episode in a series of short, conceptual explorations of education's role in the world, Dr. Abby Emerson joins us to discuss how education acts as a form of critical whiteness, how it can be anti-racist, and how abolition exceeds these framings to offer world-making possibilities.

In the season two premiere, Dr. Dani Friedrich returns to the podcast to explore education in relation to collective traumatic past. Dani takes us through education leading up to and during the Argentinian dictatorship. He also details the curriculum shift that led to Argentinian schools teaching about the dictatorship. Moving outside of schools, we also discuss different sites of public pedagogy...

What is the force of education? Is is liberatory? Genocidal? Does it reproduce social conditions? Challenge them? How does education guide social movements? What role does education play in making and maintaining fascism? When is education a tool of colonialism? Why do anti-colonial struggles center education? On this season of Another Education Is Possible, we grapple with education's many roles...