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To kick the year off, I sit down with Professors Pasi Sahlberg and Glenn Savage on the sidelines of the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement, which was held at the University of Melbourne last week. Our conversation explores some of the big ideas mentioned at the conference. As you’ll hear, much of the conversations challenged the narrow meaning of effectiveness and improvement and pushed against the so-called what works agenda. Pasi Sahlberg and Glenn Savage are professors of education at the University of Melbourne. www.freshedpodcast.com/sahlberg-savage -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com

FreshEd is on holidays. We’ll be back with new episodes in February. In the meantime, we are replaying some of our favourite episodes from our archive, which now totals over 380 episodes. The best way for you to explore our archive is on our website, freshedpodcast.com. You’ll find hand-picked playlists, transcripts, and even accompanying educational resources. And while you're there, please consider becoming a member of FreshEd for as little as $10/month. Members receive exclusive benefits. -- Today marks the 3rd anniversary of FreshEd. To celebrate, we are going to air our first ever FreshEd Live event where Saskia Sassen joined me for a conversation about her life and work. Saskia Sassen is a professor at Columbia University. In 1991, she published the now classic book called The Global City where she chronicled how New York, London, and Tokyo became the centers in the new digital economy. What she focused on was the rise of intermediary services that allowed corporations to operate globally. Instead of s

FreshEd is on holidays. We’ll be back with new episodes in February. In the meantime, we are replaying some of our favourite episodes from our archive, which now totals over 380 episodes. The best way for you to explore our archive is on our website, freshedpodcast.com. You’ll find hand-picked playlists, transcripts, and even accompanying educational resources. And while you're there, please consider becoming a member of FreshEd for as little as $10/month. Members receive exclusive benefits. -- The past few shows have focused on climate change as being the biggest issue facing teacher unions globally. There are, of course, other big issues. One of them is propaganda. Misinformation campaigns have been on the rise partly due to the turn towards right-wing extremism in many parts of the world. Social media has created new ways to spread misinformation and propaganda, making education a powerful tool to combat the spread of lies and what we might call fake news. My guest today is Maria Ressa, a Filipino-America

FreshEd is on holidays. We’ll be back with new episodes in February. In the meantime, we are replaying some of our favourite episodes from our archive, which now totals over 380 episodes. The best way for you to explore our archive is on our website, freshedpodcast.com. You’ll find hand-picked playlists, transcripts, and even accompanying educational resources. And while you're there, please consider becoming a member of FreshEd for as little as $10/month. Members receive exclusive benefits. -- 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. www.freshedpodcast.com/keithlewin twitter: @freshedpodcast email: info@freshedpodcast.com

FreshEd is on holidays. We’ll be back with new episodes in February. In the meantime, we are replaying some of our favourite episodes from our archive, which now totals over 380 episodes. The best way for you to explore our archive is on our website, freshedpodcast.com. You’ll find hand-picked playlists, transcripts, and even accompanying educational resources. And while you're there, please consider becoming a member of FreshEd for as little as $10/month. Members receive exclusive benefits. -- Today we talk about transitional justice, the role of truth telling in historical memory, and how education can help or hinder the process. With me is Natasha Robinson who has written a new book chapter entitled “Developing Historical Consciousness for Social Cohesion: How South African Students Learn to Construct the Relationship Between Past and Present.” Natasha Robinson is a Postdoctoral researcher at Oxford University and ESRC Fellow. www.freshedpodcast.com/natasharobinson -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcas

FreshEd is on holidays. We’ll be back with new episodes in February. In the meantime, we are replaying some of our favourite episodes from our archive, which now totals over 380 episodes. The best way for you to explore our archive is on our website, freshedpodcast.com. You’ll find hand-picked playlists, transcripts, and even accompanying educational resources. And while you're there, please consider becoming a member of FreshEd for as little as $10/month. Members receive exclusive benefits. -- 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 Su

FreshEd is on holidays. We’ll be back with new episodes in February. In the meantime, we are replaying some of our favourite episodes from our archive, which now totals over 380 episodes. The best way for you to explore our archive is on our website, freshedpodcast.com. You’ll find hand-picked playlists, transcripts, and even accompanying educational resources. And while you're there, please consider becoming a member of FreshEd for as little as $10/month. Members receive exclusive benefits. -- 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. freshedp

FreshEd is on holidays. We’ll be back with new episodes in February. In the meantime, we are replaying some of our favourite episodes from our archive, which now totals over 380 episodes. The best way for you to explore our archive is on our website, freshedpodcast.com. You’ll find hand-picked playlists, transcripts, and even accompanying educational resources. And while you're there, please consider becoming a member of FreshEd for as little as $10/month. Members receive exclusive benefits. -- Today Steve Carney joins me to talk about his new co-written book with Ulla Ambrosius Madsen entitled “Education in Radical Uncertainty: Transgression in Theory and Method.” The book offers a major critique of the field of comparative education and asks us to dwell in experience rather than make value judgements. This is a powerful book in both form and content and demands to be read by anyone working in the field of comparative and international education. Steve Carney is a Professor of Educational Studies at Roskild

FreshEd is on holidays. We’ll be back with new episodes in February. In the meantime, we are replaying some of our favourite episodes from our archive, which now totals over 380 episodes. The best way for you to explore our archive is on our website, freshedpodcast.com. You’ll find hand-picked playlists, transcripts, and even accompanying educational resources. And while you're there, please consider becoming a member of FreshEd for as little as $10/month. Members receive exclusive benefits. -- 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

We are starting a FreshEd community and want you to join for as little as $10/month. Thanks to our newest member, Anjuli Crocker. Your contribution will allow us to continue creating FreshEd. If you want to join our growing community, please head over to FreshEdpodcast.com/support -- As we near the end of 2024, it’s time to take stock of the year. What were the big events in 2024 and how might they impact the field of CIE? What new ideas emerged? And where is our field headed in 2025? Continuing this FreshEd tradition, Susan Robertson and Mario Novelli join me for the last episode of the year. We’ll also discuss the future of FreshEd as we near our 10th anniversary. Mario Novelli is professor in the political economy of education at the University of Sussex. Susan Robertson is a professor of education at Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge as well as at the University of Manchester. They co-edit the journal Globalisation, Societies and Education. This is our last show for the year. Happy new year

We are starting a FreshEd community and want you to join for as little as $10/month. Thanks to our newest member, Diana Corson. Your contribution will allow us to continue creating FreshEd. If you want to join our growing community, please head over to FreshEdpodcast.com/support -- Today we try to reimagine education in emergencies. With me are Ritesh Shah and Francine Menashy. They have recently co-edited a special Forum for the journal Compare which put practitioners and scholars in conversation about the “colonial imperialist, racialized, and capitalist logics” that underpin the field of education in emergencies, known as EiE. Ritesh Shah is a senior lecturer in the faculty of education and social work at the University of Auckland and Francine Menashy is an associate professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Their new Compare Forum is entitled “Reimagining education in emergencies: a conversation between practitioners and scholars.” https://freshedpodcast.

FreshEd started a membership community and we want you to join for as little as $10/month. https://freshedpodcast.com/support/ -- Today we explore the trend of capping international student numbers in Australian higher education. My guest is Anthony Welch. Anthony Welch is Professor of Education at the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney. His latest piece on capping student numbers was published in the East Asia Forum. https://freshedpodcast.com/379-welch/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com

FreshEd started a membership community and we want you to join for as little as $10/month. https://freshedpodcast.com/support/ -- Today Fazal Rizvi joins me to talk about his forthcoming book entitled Globalization and Educational Futures. Fazal revisits the rise of the popular discourses of globalization, examines many its discontents, and suggests nonetheless that it is too hasty to imagine its total demise. Fazal Rizvi is Emeritus Professor in Global Studies of Education at the University of Melbourne, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. https://freshedpodcast.com/378-rizvi/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com

FreshEd started a membership community and we want you to join for as little as $10/month. Thanks to some of our newest members including Gretchen Tillitt and Rachael Walshe. https://freshedpodcast.com/support/ -- Today we take stock of the 2024 election in the USA and its potential impact on education. What will a second Trump presidency mean for schools and universities? With me, is the renowned curriculum scholar, Michael W. Apple. Michael W. Apple is the John Bascom Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. I spoke with him on November 18.

In the aftermath of Trump sweeping to power, I thought it would be valuable to return to an interview I conducted with Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire in the aftermath of the 2020 election. In that conversation, we looked back at education under the first Trump presidency and looked ahead to education during the Biden administration. This will be good context to remember as we prepare for Trump 2.0. Next week I’ll return with a new interview with Michael Apple about what a second Trump presidency might mean for education over the next four years. -- Today we take stock of public education in the United States after the 2020 election. With me are Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire. You may know Jack and Jennifer from their education podcast called Have You Heard, which you should definitely check out. They’ve also recently co-written the book A Wolf at the schoolhouse door: The dismantling of public education and the future of school, which traces the war on public education in America. They argue th

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 find it in your podcast feed. Beaw is a Thai-Karen education development practitioner currently working with the Southeast Asia Spark Fund initiative at the Global Fund for Children. She recently completed her master’s at the University of Bristol. She is a Season 3 Flux Fellow. https://freshedpodcast.com/thatsanaprai/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

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 working with the Southeast Asia Spark Fund initiative at the Global Fund for Children. She recently completed her master’s at the University of Bristol. She is a Season 3 Flux Fellow. If you’re curious about the final song, you can read an English translation on our website. https://freshedpodcast.com/flux-beaw/ -- Today’s episode was created, written, and produced by Suwandee Thatsanaprai. Johannah Fahey was the executive producer. Brett Lashua and Will Brehm were the producers. Special thanks to Beaw's mother for helping write the S’gaw Karen script; Wut for inviting Beaw to his school and for his help pushing

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 conversation today will make much more sense once you listen to his Flux episode. Peter Browning is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at University College London. He was a Season 3 Flux Fellow. https://freshedpodcast.com/browning/ -- 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. 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 implications of podcasting. Peter Browning recently graduated with his PhD from the Institute of Education at the University College London, where he is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies. https://freshedpodcast.com/flux-browning/ -- Today’s episode was created, written, and produced by Peter Browning. Johannah Fahey was the executive producer. Brett Lashua and Will Brehm were the producers. Special thanks to Complicité not only for granting permission to use their material, but also for kindling Peter's interest in sound and storytelling. Also, a big thank you to Johannah Fahey, exec

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. You’ll find it in your podcast feed. In today’s interview, we discuss Hmong student experiences on college campuses and what it was like to put together a podcast with their cousins. Chundou Her is a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Season 3 FreshEd Flux Fellow. https://freshedpodcast.com/her/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/