Education as Everything

The Zapatistas have influenced and inspired countless social movements around the world. Their indigenous, anti-capitalist, and liberatory social formations shows the possibility of, as the Zapatistas describe, "a world where many worlds fit," In this episode, scholar and writer Raúl Romero (along with translator Javier Ríos) takes listeners through the history of Zapatista education. We look at not just the Zapatista's revolutionary education system but the emancipatory education they practice in everyday life.To explore more of Raúl's work, see https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/schools-of-the-revolution/the-rebel-education-of-the-zapatistashttps://raulromerogallardo.info/

In this episode, we speak with Glen Coulthard about Indigenous Land-Based Education at the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning. This episode builds on our previous discussion with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson about Dechinta. Glen is Yellowknives Dene and an associate professor in the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program and the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014). He is also a co-founder of Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning, a decolonial, Indigenous land-based post-secondary program operating on his traditional territories in Denendeh (Northwest Territories). Learn more about Dechinta at https://www.dechinta.ca/ For more on Glen's work, see https://cis.arts.ubc.ca/profile/glen-coulthard/

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg musician, writer and academic. She is the author of eight books and a member of Alderville First Nation. Our interview with her is the first in a pair of episodes on indigenous land-based learning. In the second episode of the pair, we speak with Glen Coulthard. Leanne and Glen are both faculty and board members with the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning, an indigenous land-based study project based in northern Canada. For Leanne's writing, music, and films, see: https://www.leannesimpson.ca/ For more on Dechinta, see https://www.dechinta.ca/

Writer and professor Abdaljawad Omar joins the podcast to discuss the history, hollowing out, and lingering possibility of Birzeit University in Palestine.

Historian Mark Bray joins the podcast to discuss Spanish anarchist and educator Francisco Ferrer, the Modern School that he helped start in Barcelona in the early 1900s, and the way Ferrer's work continues to resonate (or doesn't) with current radical education projects.

Another Season Is Possible! On the first episode of season 3, hosts Jordan Corson, Eli Meyerhoff, and Olive introduce the podcast and explore what the new season is all about.

In the final episode of the second season, host Jordan Corson joins M.A. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies students from the Education, Genocide, Liberation course to explore education's role in this world and the one to come.

In this conceptual episode, professor and organizer Alexandria Hollett takes listeners through an exploration of the relationship between anarchism and education.

As we have explored several times on this podcast, education can be an opportunity. But, for what is it an opportunity? Who gets to pursue which opportunities? In this episode, Dr. Molly Hamm-Rodriguez poses these questions to explore youth workforce programs in the Dominican Republic and U.S. Where these programs aim to make education serve the racialized logics of human capital, Molly shows how youth navigate, resist, and negotiate. In doing so, they pursue language learning and other kinds of education for many purposes, including those that escape human capital.

In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Haeny Yoon and Dr. Nathan Holbert, hosts of the podcast Pop and Play. Host Bosco engages in a conversation about how education can and cannot be play both in and out of school. Is play present in school even if it is not apparent? What do cooking recipes have to do with play in schools? Additionally, Haeny and Nathan discuss the nuances of play, when play is both a “good” and “bad” experience, though both play important roles in experiential learning.