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If you’d like to join our growing membership community, please visit Freshedpodcast.com/support. Member starts for as little as $10/months. -- Today we take a deep dive into the different types of teachers’ work. My guest is Kathryn Anderson-Levitt, an anthropologist of education whose new book chapter reflects on her field work over 50 years across three countries. Kathryn Anderson-Levitt is Professor Emerita at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Her new chapter is “Teachers’ Work: Lessons Learned on Three Continents,” which will be published later this year in the Handbook of Teachers’ Work: International Perspectives on Research and Practice. https://freshedpodcast.com/anderson-levitt/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com

I wanted to welcome our newest FreshEd members, Joshua Heyes and Miguel Filipe Silva. Their support means we can continue to make FreshEd for the thousands of listeners around the world. If you’d like to join our growing membership community, please visit Freshedpodcast.com/support. Member starts for as little as $10/months. -- Today we look at immigration in the USA. It’s a hot topic, but there is a lot to learn from history. My guest is Catherine Boland Erkkila who recently published the book Spaces of Immigration: American Ports, Railways and Settlements (University of Pittsburgh Press). Catherine Boland Erkkila is an architectural historian specializing in American cultural landscapes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She previously worked as the managing editor of SAH Archipedia and taught at Rutgers University. freshedpodcast.com/boland-erkkila/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com

FreshEd will return next week with new episodes! -- 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 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.” freshedpodcast.com/380-shah-menashy/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodc

FreshEd will be back soon with new episodes. -- Today we talk about the history and recent rise of Islamophobia worldwide. My guest is Mariam Durrani, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Hamilton College. In our conversation, we discusses both the state policy infrastructure enabling Islamophobia while also the everyday discourses and actions that normalize the Othering of a particular group. Dr. Durrani also discusses her own life story of growing up in a military family and witnessing the rise of Islamophobia in the aftermath of September 11th. Mariam Durrani recently published the book chapter “Communicating and Contesting Islamophobia.” www.freshedpodcast.com/mariamdurrani -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

FreshEd will be back soon with new episodes. -- Today we focus on a hugely important issue but one that is generally absent within the organizations and structures that make up the global education architecture. The issue is race. My guests today, Francine Menashy and Zeena Zakharia, have spent years speaking with staff members at various global education organizations – you know, places like UNESCO, UNCIEF, the World Bank, and the Gates Foundation. They also scrutinized hundreds of publications these organizations have published. Francine and Zeena come to the conclusion that few if any of these organization deal with race and racial power relations between the global north and south in any meaningful way. Francine Menashy is an associate professor at the University of Toronto and Zeena Zakharia is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. Their new article in Harvard Educational Review is entitled White Ignorance in Global Education. freshedpodcast.com/menashy-zakharia/ -- Get

Today we explore the care economy. My guest is Tim Jackson who chronicles in his latest book his own journey of valuing health instead of wealth and care instead of growth. Tim Jackson is an emeritus professor at the University of Surrey and Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity. His new book is The Care Economy (Polity 2025). https://freshedpodcast.com/jackson391/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com

Today we look at how universities recruit international students and what that means for the internationalization of higher education. My guest is Stephanie Kim. Stephanie Kim is an Associate Professor of the Practice and Faculty Director of Higher Education Administration at Georgetown University. Her new book is Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul (2023, MIT Press). We recorded this interview BEFORE the Trump administration revoked Harvard's Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification. freshedpodcast.com/kim/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com

Today we explore the transformation of education systems. How does change happen? Is change always positive? And what do we even mean by an education system? With me are Sara Ruto, Rakesh Rajani, and Brad Olsen. Earlier this year, they were part of a Brookings Roundtable discussion about what it means to integrate scaling impact and systems transformation to advance education improvement around the world. Sara Ruto is a Program Officer at Echidna Giving, Rakesh Rajani is the President of JustSystems, and Brad Olsen is a senior fellow with the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. freshedpodcast.com/ruto-rajani-olsen/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com

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 previous editor of Education Policy Analysis Archives and is the current co-editor in chief of AERA Open. Gustavo Fischman is a professor of education policy at Arizona State University. A few years ago he co-wrote the piece “Education research is still the hardest science: a proposal for improving its trustworthiness and usability.” freshedpodcast.com/fischman/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com

If you want to join our growing community, sign up at FreshEdpodcast.com. -- Today we explore transitional justice in Colombia. My guests are Garnett Russell, Paula Mantilla-Blanco, and Daniela Romero. They have recently published a report entitled Transitional Justice and Education in Colombia: Voices of Youth. Garnett Russell is an associate professor of International and Comparative Education at Teachers College, Columbia University where Daniela Romero is a lecturer. Paul Mantilla-Blanco is a post-doctoral fellow at Binghamton University. freshedpodcast.com/russell-mantilla-blanco-romero/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com

Since the 2025 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund just ended, I thought it would be good to replay an episode about global economic governance. In my conversation with Jamie Martin, we look at early efforts of international development and technical assistance, revealing how many of the tensions that existed in the early 1900s are still with us today. Jamie Martin is an Assistant Professor of History and Social Studies at Harvard University. His new book is The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance. freshedpodcast.com/jamiemartin -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

If you want to join our growing community, sign up at FreshEdpodcast.com. -- Today I’m joined by Howard Gardner, the renowned research professor of cognition and education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. For over half a century, Howard has impacted how we think about learning, intelligence, creativity, and ethics. He is a major educational thinker of our time. Howard Gardner recently published two books, The Essential Howard Gardner on Education and the Essential Howard Gardner on Mind (Teachers College Press). freshedpodcast.com/gardner/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com

While FreshEd is away, we are going to replay some of our favourite episodes about education in a digital society. -- 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, they have recently published the article “‘The future we want’? – The ideal twenty-first century learner and education’s neuro-affective turn.” https://freshedpodcast.com/yliniva-bryan/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

While FreshEd is away, we are going to replay some of our favourite episodes about education in a digital society. -- 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 and Kean Birch is “Turning universities into data-driven organizations: seven dimensions of change”, which was published in Higher Education. freshedpodcast.com/368-komljenovic/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

While FreshEd is away, we are going to replay some of our favourite episodes about education in a digital society. -- Children are inundated with technology. Video games, smartphones, and computers are common in the lives of today’s digital generation. With school closures from the covid-19 pandemic, learning from home only added to the screen time overload for many children. How do children and young people use and are affected by technological transformations in their everyday lives? How are schools and education systems adapting to these changes? And what might we learn from the coronavirus when it comes to technology and education? With me is Halla Holmarsdottir a Professor in the Faculty of Education and International Studies at the Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway. She is currently the coordinator of a large-scale European Research project funded by Horizon 2020 (grant agreement No 870548) entitled The Impact of Technological Transformations on the Digital Generation (DigiGen). The DigiGen pr

FreshEd is at the CIES Annual Conference. While we are away, we are going to replay some of our favourite episodes about the theme of the conference: "Envisioning Education in a Digital Society." If you are in Chicago, please stop by the FreshEd table in the exhibition hall. And please consider becoming a member of FreshEd: freshedpodcast.com/support -- 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 Research Council Future Fellow. Correction: In the interview, Fleur Johns mentions the 1998 floods in Bangladesh when in fact she meant the 1988 floods. Citation: Johns, Fleur, interview with Will Brehm, FreshEd, 336, podcast audio, November 13, 2023. https://freshedpo

If you find FreshEd a valuable educational resource, please consider becoming a member. You can sign up at our website, Freshedpodcast.com. Also, if you’re going to be at the comparative and international education society’s annual conference this week, stop by the FreshEd booth. Me and a few other FreshEd team members will be there! -- Today we explore the status of the teaching profession across the world. With me are Xavier Dumay, Tore Bernt Sorensen and Lynn Paine, the co-editors of the 2025 World Yearbook of Education. The volume explores teacher polices, teacher employment relations, and teacher education. Xavier Dumay is a Professor of Education at UCLouvain in Belgium; Tore Bernt Sorensen is a Lecturer of Education at the School of Education, University of Glasgow in the UK; and Lynn Paine is an Emerita Professor of Teacher Education at Michigan State University, in the USA. They co-edited the 2025 World year Book of Education entitled “The Teaching Profession in a Globalizing World: Governance, Ca

Today we explore the history of modern mass schooling. My guest, Agustina Paglayan, argues in her new book that schooling was originally a strategy for state-building through indoctrination. Agustina Paglayan is a political science and public policy professor at the University of California, San Diego, and a nonresident fellow at the Center for Global Development. Her new book is “Raised to Obey: The rise and spread of Mass Education," which was published by Princeton University Press. freshedpodcast.com/Paglayan/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com

FreshEd will be holding its Annual General meeting soon. Everyone is welcome to join. You can find registration details on our website. Hope to see you there! -- Today we explore how schools make race. My guest is Laura Chávez-Moreno. Laura Chávez-Moreno is an assistant professor in the Departments of Chicana/o & Central American Studies and Education at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her new book is entitled: How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America (Harvard Education Press). https://freshedpodcast.com/chavez-moreno/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com

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