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Hi FreshEd Listeners. We’re on holiday for the month of August. We’ll be back in September with new episodes, including the next round of Flux. I’ve already listened to a few rough cuts and they’re going to be great. While we’re away, please send us your recommendations for future guests as well as consider donating to FreshEd to keep independent media alive. FreshEd is nothing without you. Thanks for all your support and I’ll be back in September! freshedpodcast.com/contact-2/ -- Today the journalist, author, and academic, Gary Younge, joins me to talk about race, identity, and education. Our conversation starts with his reflections on the UK Government’s Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, which published its report in March. We then touch on a range of issues from across his career. Gary Younge is a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester. He worked for the Guardian newspaper for two decades and has written five books. His book Who are We – and should it matter in the 21st century?

Hi FreshEd Listeners. We’re on holiday for the month of August. We’ll be back in September with new episodes, including the next round of Flux. I’ve already listened to a few rough cuts and they’re going to be great. While we’re away, please send us your recommendations for future guests as well as consider donating to FreshEd to keep independent media alive. FreshEd is nothing without you. Thanks for all your support and I’ll be back in September! https://freshedpodcast.com/contact-2/ -- Did you know that today there are more forcibly displaced people than at any time since World War II? The total number comes out to roughly 65 million, including internally displaced peoples, asylum seekers, and refugees. That’s roughly 1 out of every 113 people on Earth. Today I speak with three professors from Teachers College, Columbia University about their research project on refugees, which is being funded by the United States Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration. At Teachers College,

Hi FreshEd Listeners. We’re on holiday for the month of August. We’ll be back in September with new episodes, including the next round of Flux. I’ve already listened to a few rough cuts and they’re going to be great. While we’re away, please send us your recommendations for future guests as well as consider donating to FreshEd to keep independent media alive. FreshEd is nothing without you. Thanks for all your support and I’ll be back in September! https://freshedpodcast.com/contact-2/ -- There’s an urban legend that Winston Churchill, near the end of World War II, once said “never let a good crisis go to waste.” President Obama’s chief of staff, Rahman Emanuel, certainly said similar words in 2009 after the Global Financial Crisis. Is the crisis in education today caused by the coronavirus an opportunity to make lasting and positive change? How can we be sure not to waste this moment by returning to normal? Yong Zhao joins me to talk about educational change in the time of COVID-19. He argues that we must

Hi FreshEd Listeners. We’re on holiday for the month of August. We’ll be back in September with new episodes, including the next round of Flux. I’ve already listened to a few rough cuts and they’re going to be great. While we’re away, please send us your recommendations for future guests as well as consider donating to FreshEd to keep independent media alive. FreshEd is nothing without you. Thanks for all your support and I’ll be back in September! https://freshedpodcast.com/contact-2/ -- Today we continue our exploration of Teach for All. Two weeks ago, we explored Teach for All counter-narratives. Now we look at empirical research evidence across contexts where Teach for All operates. With me are Matthew Thomas, Emilee Rauschenberger and Katy Crawford-Garrett who have recently co-edited Examining Teach For All: International Perspectives on a Growing Global Network. The collection “brings together research focused on Teach for All and its affiliate programmes to explore the organization’s impact on educat

Today we explore the role of students and youth in global education governance. With me is Sebastian Berger, the Executive Director of the Global Student Forum. The Global Student Forum is the umbrella organisation of the world’s major representative student federations and the only independent, democratic and representative student governance structure dedicated to promoting the rights and perspectives of student organisations and movements on the global level. Sebastian Berger has been an active member of the international student movement for years, holding various leadership positions on the local, national and international level. He previously held the office of Vice President in the European Students’ Union (ESU) and was a founding member of the GSF Steering Committee. He’s currently paused his Master’s degree to work full-time with the Global Student Forum. freshedpodcast.com/berger -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.fresh

Today we explore the birth of global economic governance and the myth of equal sovereignty. 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. My guest is Jamie Martin 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. https://freshedpodcast.com/jamiemartin -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

FreshEd has a new podcast! It's called Aula Divergente and it's in Spanish. The show, which airs on Fridays, is series-based (that is, we'll air a group of episodes around a single topic before moving to the next) and focuses on educational issues across Latin America. It's hosted by Daniela Hernández and Carlos Navia. Today Dani and Carlos join me to talk about Aula Divergente. We then play the first full epsiode, which is of course in Spanish. You can find an English-translation on our website. Please make sure you subscribe to our new show here: https://freshedpodcast.com/auladivergente/subscribe/

Special announcement: FreshEd started a Spanish-language podcast called Aula Divergente! Subscribe now: https://freshedpodcast.com/auladivergente/subscribe/ -- Today we explore mass shootings in the USA. My guest is Dinur Blum who explores this phenomenon using a sociological lens. Dinur Blum is a lecturer in the department of Sociology at California State University, Los Angeles. Together with Christian Gonzalez Jaworski, he published the book Critical Mass: Understanding and fixing the social roots of mass shootings in the United States. He is also the co-host of the podcast Learning Made Easier. freshedpodcast.com/blum -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

As many students in the Northern Hemisphere begin summer break, I thought it would be a good time to reflect on and reimagine universities. Ian Cook and Prem Kumar Rajaram join me today to talk about their new Open Access co-edited volume, Opening up the University: Teaching and Learning with Refugees, which was put together with Celine Cantat. Ian M. Cook is Director of Studies at the Open Learning Initiative (OLIve), Budapest located at the Central European University (CEU), where Prem Kumar Rajaram is Professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology and Head of the Open Learning Initiative. freshedpodcast.com/cook-rajaram -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we are going to do something slightly different. Over the past six months, I’ve asked FreshEd guests how they approach writing, reading, research, and supervision. Listening back to the responses, I realized there is no one way to do any of this! There isn’t a “right way” to do higher education. What I hope is that by compiling these voices here, we can start to appreciate the diversity within higher education, potentially opening spaces for new futures. So today we air the first episode devoted to these questions. This episode focuses on supervision and advice for graduate students. You might want to grab a notebook because there are a lot of good tips that are going to come up. I hope you enjoy the show! freshedpodcast.com/285-questionnaire -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we explore race and the criminalization of failure in the United States. With me is Sean Drake. Sean Drake is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs at Syracuse University, and Senior Research Associate at the Maxwell Center for Policy Research. His new book is Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb. freshedpodcast.com/drake -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today FreshEd teams up with the Swedish podcast Bakom Bokhyllan to explore science communication. Cecilia Burman, Gia Destoun, and Will Brehm discuss the benefits and challenges of communicating science to a public audience. By teaming up, FreshEd and Bakom Bokhyllan offer an example of the impact podcasts can have in higher education. Cecilia Burman is a communication officer at Stockholm University Library and host and producer of the Bakom Bokhyllan. Gia Destoun is a Professor of Hydrology, Hydrogeology and Water Resources and Head of the Department of Physical Geography at Stockholm University. Will Brehm is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Education, University College London, and host of the FreshEd podcast.

Today we discuss the climate crisis, why it’s a difficult knowledge for humans to grasp, and how art can help us transform approaches to teaching about it. My guest is Audrey Bryan. Audrey Bryan is an associate professor of Sociology in the School of Human Development at Dublin City University. Her new article is Pedagogy of the Implicated: advancing a social ecology of responsibility framework to promote deeper understanding of the climate crisis, which was published in Pedagogy, Culture & Society. freshedpodcast.com/bryan -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today Matthew Thomas fills in for Will Brehm. Some of you might recognize his voice. Matthew's been a guest a few times on the FreshEd over the years. Now it’s his turn to interview Will, which he did as part of an event organized last week at the University of Sydney. In their conversation today, Matthew and Will explore the issue of regional identity in Southeast Asia’s Mekong region. Together with Yuto Kitamura, Will has a new co-edited book entitled Memory in the Mekong: Regional Identity, Schools, and Politics in Southeast Asia. Will Brehm is an associate professor of education and international development at the UCL Institute of Education. He is also the host of FreshEd. Today’s episode was organized by the Sydney Comparative and International Education Community, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, and the History and Education SIG of the Australian Association for Research in Education. freshedpodcast.com/281-brehm -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.co

Today we explore the issue of whiteness and how it is learned in and beyond schools in Australia. My guests are Arathi Sriprakash, Sophie Rudolph and Jessica Gerrard. They have written the new book, Learning Whiteness: Education and the settler Colonial State, which was published by Pluto Press. Arathi Sriprakash is a Professor of Education at the University of Bristol. Sophie Rudolph is a Senior Lecturer in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne where Jessica Gerrard is an Associate Professor. https://freshedpodcast.com/sriprakash-rudolph-gerrard -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

How can we define comparative education? That question has long vexed scholars in the field. My guest today is Angela Little, who has spent her entire career in comparative education and has wrestled with this very question. Angela argues that it is best to define the field through shared action rather than agreed-upon definitions and talks about the challenges of being an academic-slash-practitioner. She also discusses the recent role that southern theory plays in the field of comparative education. Angela Little is Professor Emerita at the University College London, Institute of Education, University of London. https://freshedpodcast.com/angelalittle/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

With the leaked Supreme Court ruling that would effectively overturn Roe v. Wade, I thought it would be good to revisit an old episode that explored various constitutional issues vis-a-vis schools. Do constitutional rights stop at the schoolhouse gate? Are American students, in other words, granted the freedom and protections outlined in the US constitution? These questions doesn’t have easy answers. With me to explore some of these questions is Justin Driver. In his book, The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind, Justin explores most if not all Supreme Court rulings on students in public education. Justin Driver is the Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. His first book,The Schoolhouse Gate(2018 Pantheon), is receiving rave reviews. The New York Times called it “indispensable” while the Washington Post called it “masterful.” www.freshedpodcast.com/driver-p1 twitter: @freshedpodcast email: info@freshedpodcast.com

Today we look at education in Ukraine during times of war. With me is Anatoly Oleksiyenko, who was born and raised in Soviet Ukraine and is a leading scholar in post-Soviet higher education systems. Anatoly Oleksiyenko is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong. He is also the director of the Comparative Education Research Centre. His latest article is Ukrainian Academics in the Times of War, which was published in Academic Praxis. https://freshedpodcast.com/oleksiyenko -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Everyone knows covid-19 disrupted education in countless ways. But what we don’t have is cross-national data that clearly measures these disruptions. That is until now. The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) and UENSCO conducted a joint study called the Responses to Educational Disruption Survey or REDS for short. REDS was developed and implemented quickly across 11 countries. It’s the first survey of its kind. Earlier this year, the first report on the survey was published. That’s what we explore today. With me are Dirk Hastedt, the Executive Director of IEA, Sabine Meinck, the Co-Head of the Research and Analysis Unit and the Head of the Sampling Unit at the IEA. The REDS data is open access, so anyone can dive into it. The IEA is holding a REDS data analysis workshop in June: https://tinyurl.com/2p83z22m https://freshedpodcast.com/hastedt-meinck -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.

It's spring break for Will's university in London, so we are re-airing one of our favourite episodes from 2020. See you next week! Today we take a critical look at numbers. Think about it: numbers are everywhere in education, from grades to impact scores to rankings. My guests today, Nelli Piattoeva and Rebecca Boden, have recently co-edited a special issue for the journal International Studies in Sociology of Education that looks at the “ambiguities of the governance of education through data” (read their open access introduction!). Nelli Piattoeva is an Associate Professor at Tampere University in Finland where Rebecca Boden is the research director and professor at the New Social Research Programme. https://freshedpodcast.com/nellipiattoeva-rebeccaboden/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: http://www.freshedpodcast.com/support/