Pedagogy and Social Change

In this episode, we welcome Dr Spyros Themelis, Associate Professor in Education at the University of East Anglia, who discusses his new book, The Pedagogy of Radical Change: Social Movements, Resistance and Alternative Futures in Higher Education . Drawing on research across Brazil, Chile, Greece and Britain, Spyros explores the influence of capitalism and neoliberalism on higher education, and t...

In this episode, we welcome Dr Madeleine Le Bourdon, Associate Professor in Political Pedagogy at the University of Leeds, who reflects on positionality and reflexivity in research, and on discomfort as a productive space for unlearning and challenging power. She discusses the value of creating "courageous spaces" in the classroom and finding everyday "pockets of disruption" that open up conversat...

In this episode we are joined by Dr Sonia Exley, an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Policy at LSE and an expert in education policy. Sonia discusses various concepts of education policy, including amongst others open policymaking, private tutoring and shadow education, neoliberal notions and the influence of the OECD, as well as epistemic injustice across policymaking spaces. She r...

In this episode, we explore Global Citizenship Education (GCE) and the emerging concept of Safetyfication through the work of Marta Estellés. We discuss her influential research with Gustavo Fischman on GCE before examining how Safetyfication, a term Marta introduced to the international literature, is shaping contemporary educational narratives. Access Marta’s work Article: Estellés & Fischma...