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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).

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While FreshEd is away, we are going to replay some of our favourite episodes about education in a digital society.

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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.”

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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.

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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 project focuses on the impact of digital technology on the lives of children and young people primarily in Europe.

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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

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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://freshedpodcast.com/johns/

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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!

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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, Career, Learning.”

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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.

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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!

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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).

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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.

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FreshEd is on holidays. We’ll be back with new episodes in February. In the meantime, we are replaying some of our favourite episodes from our archive, which now totals over 380 episodes. The best way for you to explore our archive is on our website, freshedpodcast.com. You’ll find hand-picked playlists, transcripts, and even accompanying educational resources. And while you're there, please consider becoming a member of FreshEd for as little as $10/month. Members receive exclusive benefits.

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Today marks the 3rd anniversary of FreshEd. To celebrate, we are going to air our first ever FreshEd Live event where Saskia Sassen joined me for a conversation about her life and work.

Saskia Sassen is a professor at Columbia University. In 1991, she published the now classic book called The Global City where she chronicled how New York, London, and Tokyo became the centers in the new digital economy. What she focused on was the rise of intermediary services that allowed corporations to operate globally. Instead of seeing place as no longer necessary in the digital economy, she saw certain cities as physical sites that became more important than ever in the global economy.

For Sassen, intermediaries concentrated in certain parts of the city and relied on high-level knowledge, like algorithmic mathematics. In New York City, financial services took over lower Manhattan. This left a peculiar reality for the physical buildings in the city.

As a result, many people who didn’t work in intermediary services were expelled from those parts of the city. And yet, despite this expulsion by intermediaries, new forms of inclusion were created.

Today’s show was recorded at Musashi University during the Third Japanese Political Economy Workshop organized by Nobuharu Yokokawa.

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