S1E23: Amelia Peterson on the purpose of schools in a changing world

Dr Amelia Peterson is an LSE Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she teaches social policy, and she is soon to become a founding member of faculty at the London Interdisciplinary School. She completed her PhD in Education Policy and Program Evaluation at Harvard University, where she was an Inequality and Social Policy fellow. During her studies she was a junior visiting scholar at Nuffield College, Oxford and holds a masters degree in Human Development and Psychology, also from Harvard. Amelia studies education and skills policies and their interactions with wider societal processes. Her dissertation traced the institutional changes associated with the de-vocationalization of upper secondary education, in the context of increased income inequality. She is interested in how political and social factors impact policy implementation and recently co-authored an absolutely brilliant book with Valerie Hannon, entitled: THRIVE - the purpose of schools in a changing world, which we discuss at length in this episode. LINKS Two brilliant Rethinking Assessment blogs by Amelia: ‘Moving beyond grades will be key to rethinking assessment’: https://rethinkingassessment.com/rethinking-blogs/moving-beyond-grades-will-be-key-to-rethinking-assessment/ ‘We need a more flexible and useful assessment regime that will motivate young people’: https://rethinkingassessment.com/rethinking-blogs/we-need-a-more-flexible-and-useful-assessment-regime-that-will-motivate-young-people/ A recent Rethinking Education campfire conversation that involved Amelia on self-directed learning - "Dare to give young people autonomy": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh2qgFo2C6c The Rethinking Education podcast is hosted by Dr James Mannion, the Director of Rethinking Education. You can contact him at https://rethinking-ed.org/contact, or via @RethinkingJames on Twitter. To join the Rethinking Education Mighty Network, visit: rethinking-education.mn.co/feed