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We are starting a FreshEd community and want you to join for as little as $10/month. If you want to join our growing community, please head over to FreshEdpodcast.com/support -- Today we explore the rise of neuroscience in initial teacher education in Australia. My guests are Andrew Skourdoumbis and Emma Rowe. Andrew Skourdoumbis is an associate professor in education at Deakin University where Emma Rowe is a Senior Lecturer. Their new co-written article is “A critique of ‘Strong Beginnings’ initial teacher education reforms: mandating neuroscience as core curriculum within the ‘what works’ movement”, which was published in the Australian Educational Researcher. freshedpodcast.com/skourdoumbis-rowe/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

A quick reminder before today’s episode: FreshEd is in the middle of its membership drive. Please sign up to become a member of FreshEd. We need your support. Join us today at freshedpodcast.com/support -- Today we remember Debbie Epstein, who recently passed away. Debbie was a major figure in the field of education whose work brought together cultural studies and sociology. Ever an activist, Debbie made important and lasting contributions to how we think about anti-racism and sexuality and education. I’ve asked Debbie’s long-time friend and collaborator, Jane Kenway, to join me to talk Debbie. After Jane’s introduction, I’m going to replay my interview with Debbie from 2017. Please forgive the sound quality. FreshEd was less than two years old at the time and I was clearly still learning the technical ropes. freshedpodcast.com/remembering-epstein/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Become a FreshEd Member today! https://freshedpodcast.com/support/ -- This week we look at elite private schools and how they are the engine of privilege. With me are Clive and Myra Hamilton. Clive Hamilton is a professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University and Myra Hamilton is Associate Professor in Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney Business School. Their new book is The Privileged Few. freshedpodcast.com/hamilton/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Before we start today’s episode, I want to encourage you to become a member of FreshEd. We are building a community of people around the world committed to the pursuit of knowledge and ideas related to education broadly defined. If you find FreshEd a valuable educational resource, then place sign up to become a member today: FreshEdpodacst.com/support -- Today we continue our mini-series called the FreshEd Questionnaire. I’ve been asking guests a set of standard questions after each interview. These questions focus on how guests approach writing, reading, research, and supervision. I want to talk about them to highlight the many different approaches to the day-to-day activities we do inside universities. Today’s episode focuses on books. I asked guests to name their favorite book or author and why. Here’s what they had to say. Guests include: Tricia Bromley Neal Hutchens Amy Shuffelton Dave Cormierr Elena Aydarova Joshua Ehrlich Jesica Oddy Steven Lewis Rebecca Spratt Nidal Al Haj Sleiman Liz Shchepetylnykova Irv Epstein Sirojuddin Arif Leonardo Garnier Audrey Bryan Kirsi Yliniva Gita Steiner-Khamsi Jamie Martin You Yun Seu’ula Johansson-Fua Kehaulani Vaughn Michael Rumbelow Mir Abdullah Miri Greg Skutches Prem Kumar Rajaram Juuso Henrik Nieminen Nasmi Anuar freshedpodcast.com/362-questionnaire/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we continue our mini-series called the FreshEd Questionnaire. I’ve been asking guests a set of standard questions after each interview. These questions focus on how guests approach writing, reading, research, and supervision. These are the day-to-day activities we do inside universities, but we don’t talk too much about them. I want to talk about them to highlight the many different approaches. I think these insights will be valuable to students, especially those that are about to start graduate school. Guests in this mash-up: Tricia Bromley Neal Hutchens Amy Shuffelton Dave Cormierr Elena Aydarova Joshua Ehrlich Jesica Oddy Steven Lewis Rebecca Spratt Nidal Al Haj Sleiman Liz Shchepetylnykova Irv Epstein Sirojuddin Arif Karen Mundy Leonardo Garnier Audrey Bryan Kirsi Yliniva Gita Steiner-Khamsi https://freshedpodcast.com/361-questionnaire/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we unpack the neuro-affective turn in education. With me are Kirsi Yliniva and Audrey Bryan. Kirsi Yliniva is a PhD researcher and university teacher in the Faculty of Education and Psychology at the University of Oulu. Audrey Bryan is an associate professor of sociology in the School of Human Development at Dublin City University’s Institute of Education. Together with Kristiina Brunila, they have recently published the article “‘The future we want’? – The ideal twenty-first century learner and education’s neuro-affective turn.” freshedpodcast.com/yliniva-bryan/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we unpack the global education policy known as School Autonomy with Accountability (SAWA). My guest is Gita Steiner-Khamsi who outlines the importance of using a temporal dimension when understanding policy borrowing and lending. Gita Steiner-Khamsi is the W. H. Kilpatrick Professor of Comparative Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and by courtesy Honorary UNESCO Chair in Comparative Education Policy at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Her new co-written article is entitled: The School-Autonomy-with-Accountability reform in Iceland: Looking back and making sense, which was published in the Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy. freshedpodcast.com/359-steiner-khamsi/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today You Yun joins me to talk about Social-Emotional Learning (SEL). She critiques the approach to SEL advocated by western organizations by showing how conceptions of the self, other, and emotions are not universal. By exploring these concepts from Confucian and Daoist philosophies, she begins to show alternative ways to think about SEL. You Yun is an Associate Professor in the department of Education at the East China Normal University. Her new article is "Learn to become a unique interrelated person: An alternative of social-emotional learning drawing on Confucianism and Daoism," which was published in Educational Philosophy and Theory. freshedpodcast.com/you -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we take stock of the midpoint of the Sustainable Development Goal for education, known as SDG4. Promulgated in 2015, SDG4 aims to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all” by 2030. So how we doing? With me to answer this question are Karen Mundy and Leonardo Garnier. Karen Mundy is a professor of Education policy and leadership at the Ontario institute of studies in education at the University of Toronto. She has recently written the piece SDG4 and State Capacity: The Missing Link. Leonardo Garnier is the special advisor to the UN Secretary General on Transforming Education and the former minister of education in Costa Rica. His new piece is entitled Education: Why not a race to the top?. Both pieces were published in a special issue of the International Journal of Educational Development. freshedpodcast.com/mundy-garnier/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we explore decentralization in Indonesia. My guest is Sirojuddin Arif, head of the MA in Political Science Program at the International Islamic University of Indonesia. Sirojuddin Arif’s new co-written article is “Does decentralization promote learning? Local political settlements and education policies in Indonesia” which was published in Compare. freshedpodcast.com/arif/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/