Today Daniela Hernández Silva joins me to talk about her FreshEd Flux podcast episode, which aired last week. Spoiler alert: we talk about her Flux episode in depth in today’s show. So, if you haven’t already listened to her flux episode, I recommend you hit pause now before continuing with this episode.

In our conversation today, Daniela details how podcasting allowed her to combine her creative and academic sides into one. She also provides additional context on education in rural Colombia. She argues that the Escuela Nueva model of rural education has had a lot of success increasing access to education across Colombia, but it does not fit the country’s context today. Either the model or the context needs to change.

Daniela Hernández Silva recently finished her Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Education Policies for Global Development (GLOBED). She is the first FreshEd Flux fellow to air her episode.

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Today we launch the first episode of Flux, a FreshEd series where graduate students turn their research interests into narrative-based podcasts.

In the first episode of Flux, Daniela Hernández Silva takes listeners to a faraway place in the Colombian countryside. Here, reality is transformed. She uses magical realism to create a composite character called Jose. Jose gives voice to the hundreds of people Daniela spoke with during her five-years of ethnographic fieldwork.

By raising Jose’s voice and listening to what he has to tell us, Daniela offers an alternative reading of Escuela Nueva, the award-winning rural education program founded in Colombia. She challenges policy assumptions about rural education in Colombia as a way to begin to change the narrative. Daniela also questions academic conventions and critiques the legitimacy of academic knowledge over local experience. The episode is a sonic journey unlike anything we’ve ever aired.

https://freshedpodcast.com/flux-silva

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Today’s episode was written, edited, and produced by Daniela Hernández Silva. Senior producer was Johannah Fahey. Producers were Brett Lashua and Will Brehm. Flux theme music by Joseph Minadeo of Pattern Based music.

Voices:

• Narrator and Researcher: Daniela Hernández Silva

• Young Jose: Pablo Rivas

• Adult Jose: Guillermo Rivas

• Gabriel García Márquez: Gustavo Fischman

Music and Sounds used with permission:

• Bamboo Flute by Carlos Carty

• Bass track by Daniela Hernández Silva

• Bittersweet by Matteo Galesi

• Book Sound Effect by All Sounds

• Bomb Sound Effect: Free Sound by ERH

• Burning Fire Sound Effect by Hadwin Channel

• Cash Register Sound Effect by Kiddpark

• City Skyline Sound Effect by Audio Library

• City Traffic Sound Effect by RoyaltyFreeSounds

• Clapping Sound Effect by Audio-without-Copyright

• Colombian Cumbia by Vodovoz Music Productions

• Handwriting Sound Effect by Nagaty Studio

• Keyboard Typing Sound by zrrion_the_insect

• Kids playing: Recording by Daniela Hernández Silva

• Magical Rising Wind by Jason Shaw

• The Arctic by Gold Coast

• People talking: Recording by Daniela Hernández Silva

• Record Scratch Sound Effect by SONIDOS-NoCopyright

• Shots Sound Effec by No-Copyright-Music-Vloggers

• The Reflecting by Birds of Norway

• Throwing Away Glass Sound Effect by Qubodup

• Truck: Recording by Daniela Hernández Silva

• Woman Crying Sound Effect by ARRNNOO

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It’s common to believe that education makes people socially mobility. The more education one receives, the more job prospects one will have. There are whole economic theories that explore the relationship between education, productivity, and earnings. Because of this commonplace assumption, education is believed to reduce inequality.

But what if the power we commonly place on education is misplaced? What if the story is more complex than what our neat theories of the economy and society tell us?

This is where history comes in.

My guest today is Cristina Groeger. She’s recently written The Education Trap: Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston. Cristina explores the history of work and education in Boston between 1880 and 1930 and finds legacies that continue into the present.

Cristina Groeger is an Assistant Professor of History at Lake Forest College.

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Today we explore the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and its work in education. My guest, Christian Ydesen, looks at the history of the OECD to show how the international organization has shaped-shifted overtime. From this perspective, the OECD is dynamic and includes far more products and viewpoints than its famed PISA examination.

Christian Ydesen is a professor at the Department of Culture and Learning, Aalborg University in Denmark. He’s recently co-edited (with Tore Sorensen and Susan Robertson) a special issue of Globalisation, Societies and Education called “Re-reading the OECD’s roles in education: the becoming of a global governing complex."

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Today we take an inside look at Low Fee Private Schools. With me is Joanna Härmä who has recently published the book Low-Fee Private Schooling and Poverty in Developing Countries (Bloomsbury 2021)

Joanna Härmä is a writer and researcher on education and development. She also owns and operates a low fee private school in India. Joanna is a visiting research fellow at the Centre for International Education at the University of Sussex and a teaching fellow at the University of Edinburgh.

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Today we explore the interconnections between the fields of peace education and human rights education. With me are Maria Hantzopoulos and Monisha Bajaj, authors of the new book Education for Peace and Human Rights: An Introduction (Bloomsbury, 2021).

Their book launches a new book series by Bloomsbury Academic on Peace and Human Rights Education, which brings together cutting-edge scholarship from scholars and practitioners in the field. It will provide a cross-section of scholarly research as well as conceptual perspectives on the challenges and possibilities of implementing both peace and human rights education in diverse global sites.

Maria Hantzopoulos is an Associate Professor of Education at Vassar College and Monisha Bajaj is Professor of International and Multicultural Education at the University of San Francisco.

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Today we think about the power of ideas and imagine what life might look like after capitalism. With me is Tim Jackson. In his new book, Post Growth: Life after capitalism, Tim shows the limits of the dominant metaphors used to explain our current world and argues for new metaphors to help imagine a sustainable, just, and creative future.

Tim Jackson is the director of the center for understanding of Sustainable prosperity and professor of sustainable development at the university of Surrey.

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Special Note: Check out FreshEd's new Portuguese-language podcast called Eduquê, which launched today! https://freshedpodcast.com/eduque/

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Climate change and its effects aren’t some future possibilities waiting to happen unless we take action today. No. The effect of climate change is already occurring. Today. Right now. Around the world, people have been displaced, fell ill, or died because of the globe’s changing climate. These effects are uneven: Some countries and classes of people are more affected by global warming than others. Still, the United Nations estimates that catastrophic consequences from climate change are only a decade away. That’s the year 2029. [Editor's note: The IPCC report is from 2018 and gave a 12-year prediction, so it should read 2030, not 2029.]

What is the role of education policy in an era of detrimental climate change?

My guest today is Marcia McKenzie, a professor in the Department of Educational Foundations at the University of Saskatchewan and director of the Sustainability Education Research Institute. She recently has been awarded a grant to research UN policy programs in relation to climate change education and in June will release a report for the United Nations that reviews country progress on climate change education and education for sustainable development.

In our conversation, we talk about what countries are doing or not doing in terms of education and sustainability, and we reflect on some of the existential questions that climate change brings to the fore.

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Today we explore the response of the Finnish education system to the Covid-19 pandemic. Unlike many countries with children out of school, the narrative of “learning loss” never emerged. In fact, as Pasi Sahlberg tells me, the opposite happened.

Pasi Sahlberg is a professor of education policy at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He’s been a regular on FreshEd for the past five years. His latest books include Finnish Lessons 3.0: What can the world learn from educational change in Finland (2021), and In Teachers We Trust: The Finnish way to world-class schools, which was co-authored with Tim Walker (2021). Today we discuss these books in relation to the pandemic.

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Today we explore the relationship between UNESCO and the World Bank from the 1960s through today. My guest is Maren Elfert. She has recently published in the International Journal of Educational Development an article entitled “The power struggle over education in developing countries: the Case of the UNESCO-World Bank Co-operative program, 1964-1989.”

Maren Elfert is a lecturer in education and society in the school of education, communication and society at King’s College London.

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