Situation of Education

For the final episode of Season 1, we discuss twice exceptional learners.

What are we educating for? How did education become formalized, and why? What are the aims of formal, state run education? Shannon Leddy unpacks these and other questions in Episode 5.

While gender parity in education has been achieved in many countries, there are unique challenges to educating young men. In episode four, Shannon shares conversations with many passionate advocates on this topic.

How do we introduce the idea of multiple realities and ways of understanding the world through education? How can ideas such as indigenous science be brought into the classroom? On this week's episode, Shannon Leddy breaks this down with special guest Lindsay Heller.

What's good about a fieldtrip? How does changing the environment in which children learn improve education? Find out in episode two.

This first episode of the Situation of Education is focused on music in education.

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