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If you’d like to join our growing membership community, please visit Freshedpodcast.com/support. Member starts for as little as $10/months. -- Today we take a deep dive into the different types of teachers’ work. My guest is Kathryn Anderson-Levitt, an anthropologist of education whose new book chapter reflects on her field work over 50 years across three countries. Kathryn Anderson-Levitt is Professor Emerita at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Her new chapter is “Teachers’ Work: Lessons Learned on Three Continents,” which will be published later this year in the Handbook of Teachers’ Work: International Perspectives on Research and Practice. https://freshedpodcast.com/anderson-levitt/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com

I wanted to welcome our newest FreshEd members, Joshua Heyes and Miguel Filipe Silva. Their support means we can continue to make FreshEd for the thousands of listeners around the world. If you’d like to join our growing membership community, please visit Freshedpodcast.com/support. Member starts for as little as $10/months. -- Today we look at immigration in the USA. It’s a hot topic, but there is a lot to learn from history. My guest is Catherine Boland Erkkila who recently published the book Spaces of Immigration: American Ports, Railways and Settlements (University of Pittsburgh Press). Catherine Boland Erkkila is an architectural historian specializing in American cultural landscapes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She previously worked as the managing editor of SAH Archipedia and taught at Rutgers University. freshedpodcast.com/boland-erkkila/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com

Guests Ritesh Shah, a senior lecturer from the University of Auckland, and Francine Menashy, an associate professor at the University of Toronto, tackle the complexities of education in emergencies. They delve into the impact of systemic racism on global education, revealing the superficiality of current anti-racism initiatives. The discussion critiques how organizations like UNESCO and UNICEF often evade meaningful dialogue on race. They also advocate for urgent structural reforms to address racial capitalism and highlight hopeful initiatives that promote equity in education.

FreshEd will be back soon with new episodes. -- Today we talk about the history and recent rise of Islamophobia worldwide. My guest is Mariam Durrani, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Hamilton College. In our conversation, we discusses both the state policy infrastructure enabling Islamophobia while also the everyday discourses and actions that normalize the Othering of a particular group. Dr. Durrani also discusses her own life story of growing up in a military family and witnessing the rise of Islamophobia in the aftermath of September 11th. Mariam Durrani recently published the book chapter “Communicating and Contesting Islamophobia.” www.freshedpodcast.com/mariamdurrani -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

FreshEd will be back soon with new episodes. -- Today we focus on a hugely important issue but one that is generally absent within the organizations and structures that make up the global education architecture. The issue is race. My guests today, Francine Menashy and Zeena Zakharia, have spent years speaking with staff members at various global education organizations – you know, places like UNESCO, UNCIEF, the World Bank, and the Gates Foundation. They also scrutinized hundreds of publications these organizations have published. Francine and Zeena come to the conclusion that few if any of these organization deal with race and racial power relations between the global north and south in any meaningful way. Francine Menashy is an associate professor at the University of Toronto and Zeena Zakharia is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. Their new article in Harvard Educational Review is entitled White Ignorance in Global Education. freshedpodcast.com/menashy-zakharia/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Tim Jackson, an emeritus professor and director at the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, discusses his transformative journey in valuing health and care over mere wealth. He dives into the detrimental effects of sugar on health and calls for systemic changes in nutrition. Jackson critiques traditional healthcare, advocating for holistic practices that prioritize well-being. He also addresses gender dynamics in caregiving and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, emphasizing a reimagined view of prosperity that includes community health and care.

Today we look at how universities recruit international students and what that means for the internationalization of higher education. My guest is Stephanie Kim. Stephanie Kim is an Associate Professor of the Practice and Faculty Director of Higher Education Administration at Georgetown University. Her new book is Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul (2023, MIT Press). We recorded this interview BEFORE the Trump administration revoked Harvard's Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification. freshedpodcast.com/kim/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com

Today we explore the transformation of education systems. How does change happen? Is change always positive? And what do we even mean by an education system? With me are Sara Ruto, Rakesh Rajani, and Brad Olsen. Earlier this year, they were part of a Brookings Roundtable discussion about what it means to integrate scaling impact and systems transformation to advance education improvement around the world. Sara Ruto is a Program Officer at Echidna Giving, Rakesh Rajani is the President of JustSystems, and Brad Olsen is a senior fellow with the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. freshedpodcast.com/ruto-rajani-olsen/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com

In a thought-provoking discussion, Gustavo Fischman, a Professor of Education Policy at Arizona State University and co-editor of AERA Open, dives deep into the current state of academic publishing in education research. He explores the boom in article submissions and the profit motives of major publishers, while critiquing the exploitative nature of the industry. Fischman also highlights the transformative impact of generative AI on scholarship and the need for improved inclusivity and trustworthiness in research, alongside rethinking the peer review process.

If you want to join our growing community, sign up at FreshEdpodcast.com. -- Today we explore transitional justice in Colombia. My guests are Garnett Russell, Paula Mantilla-Blanco, and Daniela Romero. They have recently published a report entitled Transitional Justice and Education in Colombia: Voices of Youth. Garnett Russell is an associate professor of International and Comparative Education at Teachers College, Columbia University where Daniela Romero is a lecturer. Paul Mantilla-Blanco is a post-doctoral fellow at Binghamton University. freshedpodcast.com/russell-mantilla-blanco-romero/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com