Another Education Is Possible

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 life that is deeply anticolonial and brimming with possibility.

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 spaces for people with disabilities.

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 "pedagogies of meanwhile" that open space to think what else is possible in this moment and the next.

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 Palestine and how people, especially those in Palestine, still do the work of fighting for a free Palestine.

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 conditions of war.

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 the years.