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Love the podcast? Become a member to support FreshEd! freshedpodcast.com/support/#join -- French high school students have spent weeks blocking their own schools, marching alongside farmers and striking workers, and rallying around a shared cause. What began in mid-September as a protest over empty teaching posts has become something much larger — a reckoning with a century-old promise that French schools have never fully kept, and quite possibly the first political experience for a generation about to vote for the first time. To help unpack this moment, I spoke with Régis Malet on October 29th, who has been watching this movement unfold from Bordeaux. Régis Malet is Professor of Comparative Education at the University of Bordeaux, Associate Professor at Capital Normal University in Beijing, and teaches at Sciences Po Paris. An Honorary Member of the Academic Institute of France, he chairs the Francophone Association for Comparative Education and edits the journal Éducation Comparée. -- freshedpodcast.com/malet -- Get in touch! LinkedIn: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]

Love the podcast? Become a member to support FreshEd! freshedpodcast.com/support/#join -- In the United States, Canada, Australia, and Aotearoa/New Zealand, governments once set aside at least ninety million acres to help fund public schooling, a history that’s almost entirely missing from how we tell the story of public education, and one that can’t be separated from the dispossession of Indigenous peoples. My guest is Tamson Pietsch, who has traced this history through the archive. Tamson Pietsch is Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney. Her new article is “Ninety Million Acres: Public Education and Land Endowments in Australia and the Anglo-Settler World,” published in History of Education Quarterly. freshedpodcast.com/pietsch -- Get in touch! LinkedIn: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]

Love the podcast? Become a member to support FreshEd! Sign up at freshedpodcast.com/support/#join -- Today we talk about powerful knowledge, a concept that has sparked a major debate about what should be taught in schools. My guest is Michael Young, a professor of Sociology of Curriculum at UCL’s Institute of Education. Michael’s work in the sociology of education has been criticized by both the Right and the Left. That’s why I wanted to sit down with him to unpack what he even means by powerful knowledge and how it applies to schools. Where did the idea come from? How has his own thinking evolved over his career? Michael Young has worked at the Institute of Education for over 50 years. A student of Basil Bernstein, he has had a major impact on the field of sociology of education since the publication of his first book, Knowledge and Control, in 1971. Much of our conversation today focuses on his 2008 book, Bringing Knowledge Back in. www.freshedpodcast.com/michaelyoung/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected] Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today Steve Carney joins me to talk about his new co-written book with Ulla Ambrosius Madsen entitled “Education in Radical Uncertainty: Transgression in Theory and Method.” The book offers a major critique of the field of comparative education and asks us to dwell in experience rather than make value judgements. This is a powerful book in both form and content and demands to be read by anyone working in the field of comparative and international education. Steve Carney is a Professor of Educational Studies at Roskilde University, Denmark. freshedpodcast.com/carney/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected] Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Love the podcast? Become a member to support FreshEd! freshedpodcast.com/support/#join -- Today we interrogate the idea of creativity. My guest, Oli Mould, says 21st Century capitalism has redefined creativity from being a power to create something from nothing to the ability to create new products for markets. Creativity, in other words, feeds capitalism’s own growth. Students and workers alike are told they must be entrepreneurial and flexible to survive the global economy. We are told businesses and governments seek out these character traits. In effect, the power to create has become an individual characteristic that can be traded and exploited. Oli Mould is a human geographer based at Royal Holloway, University of London. He argues for a creativity that forges entirely new ways of societal organization. Oli Mould works at Royal Holloway, University of London. His book is Against Creativity. www.freshedpodcast.com/olimould/ -- Get in touch! LinkedIn: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]

Love the podcast? Become a member to support FreshEd! freshedpodcast.com/support/#join -- Today we go inside the pledging event for the Global Partnership for Education, held during this year's UN General Assembly in New York, where donors announced new commitments to finance education. What does it mean to pledge money to the future? And how do those promises reorder things in the present? My guest is Gita Steiner-Khamsi, who was in the room. Gita Steiner-Khamsi is the William Heard Kilpatrick Professor of Comparative Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and holds the honorary UNESCO Chair of Comparative Education Policy at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Her most recent book is entitled Data for accountability: Global trends in school reform, which is available open access. https://freshedpodcast.com/433-steiner-khamsi/ -- Get in touch! LinkedIn: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]

Love the podcast? Become a member to support FreshEd! https://freshedpodcast.com/support/#join -- Today we explore the education origins of the cockroach protests in India. My guest is Susan Ann Samuel. Susan Ann Samuel is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in International Climate Politics at the University of Leeds. She’s recently written in The Conversation about India’s cockroach Movement. -- freshedpodcast.com/samuel -- Get in touch! LinkedIn: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]

Join our growing FreshEd community to support the podcast and receive exclusive benefits. Sign up at FreshEdpodcast.com. -- Today, Linda Darling-Hammond joins me to talk about her new co-authored book Empowered Educators: How high-performing systems shape teaching quality around the world. The book explores how several countries and jurisdictions have developed comprehensive teaching and learning systems that produce a range of positive outcomes, from student achievement to equity and from a professionalized teaching workforce to the integration of research and practice. Linda Darling-Hammond is the president of the Learning Policy Institute and a Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University. https://freshedpodcast.com/lindadarlinghammond/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]

If you want to join our growing community, sign up at FreshEdpodcast.com. -- Today we take stock of academic publishing in education research. From the massive growth in article submissions, to the growing profit margins of the major publishers and to the impact Generative AI is having on scholarship – we take a critical look at the state of publishing. With me is Gustavo Fischman who was the previous editor of Education Policy Analysis Archives and is the current co-editor in chief of AERA Open. Gustavo Fischman is a professor of education policy at Arizona State University. A few years ago he co-wrote the piece “Education research is still the hardest science: a proposal for improving its trustworthiness and usability.” freshedpodcast.com/fischman/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]

Love the podcast? Become a member to support FreshEd! https://freshedpodcast.com/support/#join -- Today we mark the 25th anniversary of September 11th by unpacking that day’s lasting impact on society, culture, and schools in the United States. My Guest is Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher. Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Teaching Beyond September 11th curriculum project. -- freshedpodcast.com/431-ghaffar-kucher -- Get in touch! LinkedIn: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]