FreshEd

FreshEd has over 300 episodes in its archive. For the next few weeks, we'll air some of our favourites.

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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

Citation: Lewin, Keith, interview with Will Brehm, FreshEd, 138, podcast audio, December 3, 2018. https://www.freshedpodcast.com/keithlewin/

FreshEd has over 300 episodes in its archive. For the next few weeks, we'll air some of our favourites.

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Today we talk about intercultural competencies. These are the attitudes, skills, and knowledge that enable people to see from different perspectives, helping us get along together as humans. These competencies seem particularly relevant in our current political climate.

My guest is Darla Deardorff. She has spent the past decade thinking about intercultural competencies. What are? Can scholars agree on a common framework? And is it possible to measure them?

For Darla, intercultural competencies are as vital as math and science for education.

Darla Deardorff is the Executive Director of the Association of International Education Administrators at Duke University.

Her latest co-edited book, Intercultural Competence in Higher Education: International Approaches, assessment, application, was published by Routledge.

Citation: Deardorff, Darla, interview with Will Brehm, FreshEd, 80, podcast audio, July 3, 2017. https://freshedpodcast.com/deardorff/

Education privatisation continues to be a big topic across countries. But do you really know how it’s happening, how privatization as an educational policy is moving around the world? And what effect is it having on governments?

Today we re-play an episode from 2017. My guest, Stephen Ball, has written a series of books looking at educational privatization. In his latest book, Edu.net, co-written with Caroline Junemann and Diego Santori, he explores through network ethnography the evolution of the global education policy community that is advancing privatization.

Stephen Ball was a Distinguished Service Professor at the Institute of Education, University College London.

Citation: Ball, Stephen, interview with Will Brehm, FreshEd, 78, podcast audio, June 19, 2017. https://www.freshedpodcast.com/stephenball/

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Today we look at the research process in post-conflict Sri Lanka. My Guest is Suren Ladd, a PhD student at the University of Sydney.

Suren Ladd has recently published the article “Virtual Qualitative Inquiry: Tensions of Research in Post-conflict Sir Lanka, which was published in Globalisation, Societies and education.

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Today we look at the intersection of school financing and the climate emergency. Should green infrastructure updates in schools be financed primarily through grants or loans?

With me are David Backer and Akira Drake Rodriguez. David Backer is an associate professor of education policy at West Chester University of Pennsylvania and Akira Drake Rodriguez is an assistant professor at the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. Their new article is Movements at the Fiscal/Monetary Crossroads: Financing a Green New Deal for Schools in Philadelphia.

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Today we explore aboriginal voices in education research in Australia. Australians will soon vote in a referendum about whether to change their Constitution to allow for the creation of an advisory body made up of First Nations peoples. This body would provide advice to the Parliament and the government on matters that impact indigenous communities. This is called The Voice.

Nikki Moodie is an Associate Professor and Program Director of the Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity at the University of Melbourne. Together with Kevin Lowe, Roselyn Dixon, and Karen Trimmer, she has recently co-edited the volume Assessing the Evidence in Indigenous Education Research: Implications for Policy and Practice.

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Today we explore the alternative education providers that have emerged in the aftermath of the 2021 coup in Myanmar. My guest is James, a representative of Spring University Myanmar. SUM has recently published a report entitled Higher Education in Post-Coup Myanmar.

In order to protect James, I’ve agreed not to use his surname or photo.

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Today we look at the high school dropout crisis and the dismantling of the social safety net in Philadelphia. My guest is Nikhil Goyal, a sociologist and policymaker who served as senior policy advisor on education and children for Senator Bernie Sanders.

Nikhil’s new book is Live to see the day: Coming of Age in American Poverty.

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Today we take stock of the Covid-19 pandemic and higher education. After nearly four years, how have universities changed and what might their future look like? With me to discuss the post-pandemic university are Mark Carrigan and Susan Robertson.

Mark Carrigan is a lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Susan Robertson is a professor of the sociology of education at Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge. Together with Hannah Moscovitz and Michele Martini, they’ve recently co-edited the volume entitled Building the Post-Pandemic University: Imagining, Contesting and materializing Higher Education Futures.

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Today we dig into the ways in which governments in low- and middle-income countries make decisions on education. What interventions work and which should be scaled? My guest is Brad Olsen. As he shows, these questions are a lot more complex than we might think.

Brad Olsen is a senior fellow with the Center for Universal Education in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution. He has recently published the report “Government Decisionmaking on Education in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Understanding the Fit among innovation, scaling strategy, and broader environment.” This report is part of the Research on Scaling the Impact of Innovations in Education (ROSIE) multiyear project housed at the Center for Universal Education at Brookings and part of the Global Partnership for Education’s Knowledge and Innovation Exchange.

Brad’s opinions expressed on today’s episode are his alone, not official Brookings’ policy.

https://freshedpodcast.com/olsen/

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