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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/

Today we explore the export of Finnish Education. My guest is Kimmo Kuortti who studies the effects of education export and other forms of education business on the domestic publicly funded education system in Finland. Kimmo Kuortti is a doctoral researcher at Tampere University. His new article “Repurposing public education: governmental rationality of education export in Finland through public education problematisation” was published in the Journal of Education Policy. freshedpodcast.com/kuortti/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we think through the concept of power within the internationalization of higher education. My guest is Jenny Lee, professor at the Center for the Study of Higher Education and College of Education Dean's Fellow for Internationalization at the University of Arizona. Jenny Lee has a new edited collection entitled U.S. Power in International Higher Education, which was published by Rutgers University Press earlier this year. Resources, transcript and more: freshedpodcast.com/lee-2/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we unpack the ways in which the East India Company used knowledge and education to advance its interests in India. My guest is Joshua Ehrlich, an assistant professor at the University of Macau. His new book is The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge, which was published by Cambridge University Press. freshedpodcast.com/Ehrlich/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we explore what it means to decolonize education. My guests are Riyad Shahjahan, Annabelle Estera, and Kirsten Edwards. Together with Kristen Surla, they conducted a literature review of 207 articles about the topic. They show that the very idea of decolonizing takes on diverse meanings and subsequently is put into practice in different ways. They argue there is no one way or best practice to decolonize curriculum or pedagogy. They also detail some of the challenges of actualizing decolonization. Riyad Shahjahan is an associate professor of higher, adult, and lifelong Education at Michigan State University. Annabelle Estera is an Advisor and Instructor in Graduate Education at Endicott College. Kirsten Edwards is an Associate Professor in educational policy studies at Florida International University. Their new co-written article is “‘Decolonizing’ curriculum and pedagogy: A comparative review across disciplines and global higher education contexts” published in the Review of Educational Research. fr

Today I speak with the new editors of the Comparative Education Review, the flagship US journal in the field. tavis d. jules and Florin D. Salajan have big plans for the journal. tavis d. jules is a professor in cultural and educational policy and international higher education at Loyola University Chicago. Florin D. Salajan is a professor in the school of education at North Dakota State University. We spoke about their first editorial entitled “Navigating an Unbridled World: A Transformational Era ahead for Comparative and International Education.” freshedpodcast.com/jules-salajan/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we look at some of the colonial legacies in discourses around girls’ education. With me are Chris Kirchgasler and Karishma Desai. They’ve recently published an article entitled, “’Girl’ in Crisis: Colonial Residues of Domesticity in Transnational School Reforms,” which was published in the Comparative Education Review. Chris Kirchgasler is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Karishma Desai is an assistant Professor at Rutgers Graduate School of Education. freshedpodcast.com/kirchgasler-desai/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com

Today we unpack the fast-evolving student protests in the USA. With me is Neal Hutchens, a professor at the University of Kentucky’s College of Education. Much of Neal’s work focuses on issues of free speech and academic freedom. Neal Hutchens serves on the author team for the forthcoming edition of The Law of Higher Education: Essentials for Legal and Administrative Practice published by Wiley. I spoke with Neal on April 30, hours before the police entered Columbia University’s campus and counter-protesters attacked the pro-Palestinian tent encampment at University of California, Los Angeles. The situation is likely to change by the time this episode airs on May 5. freshedpodcast.com/353-hutchens/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we put the field of comparative and international education in conversation with film studies. With me is Irving Epstein, emeritus Professor at Illinois Wesleyan University. Irving Epstein’s new book is entitled Education, Affect, and Film: Visual Imaginings and Global Explorations Through a Comparative Lens. It will be published in June by Bloomsbury. freshedpodcast.com/epstein/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Special Announcement: FreshEd will hold its Annual General Meeting on April 23. Register here: https://freshedpodcast.com/agm Today we look at the history and changes of Ukrainian scholarly discourse. My guest is Liz Shchepetylnykova. Liz Shchepetylnykova is a PhD candidate at the University of Hong Kong researching transformations of the Ukrainian higher education and academic profession. She has recently published the article “Mending the divide: intellectuals and intelligentsia in Ukrainian scholarly discourse. https://freshedpodcast.com/shchepetylnykova/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Special Announcement: FreshEd will hold its Annual General Meeting on April 23. Register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcucOChrTgjGdNWj8lO0_NbjOY3tZcJBm_e#/registration -- Today we are going to air a conversation I had with Bruce Collet, the editor of the journal Diaspora, Indigenous and Minority Education. DIME, as the journal is known, has an interesting series called “Conversations” where Bruce interviews academics in the field. The interviews are transcribed, edited, and published in their journal. We thought it would be great to air the full conversation on FreshEd. And that’s what we are going to do today. The edited version of the interview will be published in the next issue of DIME. I’ll be sure to share a link once it’s out. https://freshedpodcast.com/dime/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we unpack the meaning of internationalization in international schools in England and Qatar. My guest is Nidal Al Haj Sleiman. Nidal Al Haj Sleiman is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Ulster University and a Visiting Research Fellow at Centre for Lebanese Studies. Her new article in Perspectiva Educacional is entitled: “Leadership as a socially and culturally informed praxis: The question of internationalisation in international school leadership.” https://freshedpodcast.com/Sleiman/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we dive into the reading wars. We aren’t going to explore the best way to learn how to read. Rather, we are going to unpack how the Science of Reading has been used to push an agenda of standardization and privatization. My guest is Elena Aydarova, an assistant professor in the educational policy studies department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has two recent publications on the Science of Reading: One in Harvard Educational Review entitled "'Whatever you want to call it': Science of Reading Mythologies in the Education Reform Movement" and a second forthcoming article entitled “What you see is not what you get: Science of reading reforms as a guise for standardization, centralization, and privatization." https://freshedpodcast.com/aydarova/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we explore the challenges and opportunities of learning in a digital age. How can we navigate our world of abundant information? What social norms are changing and what new social norms do we need? And what does the smartphone, Generative AI, and platform algorithms mean for education? My guest is Dave Cormier, a learning specialist at the University of Windsor, who is credited with coining the term MOOC – or Massive Open Online Course – in 2008. Dave’s new book is Learning in a Time of Abundance: The community is the Curriculum (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024). https://freshedpodcast.com/cormier/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we talk about collaboration, both its good and bad sides. My guest is Amy Shuffelton, a professor of philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. Amy Shuffelton’s new book is Collaboration: Philosophy of Education in Practice, which was published by Bloomsbury in February. https://freshedpodcast.com/shuffelton/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

A few weeks ago, I was invited to talk about podcasting as creation and dissemination on the Hong Kong University Social Contexts and Policies of Education podcast called Education Dialogues. As it says on its website: “Education Dialogues is a forum for educational sharing and debate through short written or oral communication.” The podcast is about 8 minutes. What some scholars of podcasting would call a short burst episode. I had such a good time speaking with Professor David Carless that I wanted to share it on FreshEd. Have a listen and be sure to follow Education Dialogues on Spotify. https://freshedpodcast.com/hku/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we dive into the field of education in emergencies, highlighting its entanglements with colonialism, empire, and racial capitalism. My guest is Jess Oddy. Jess Oddy is a researcher at the university of Bristol and has worked in various capacities in the field of education in emergencies. Her new article is “Retelling education in emergencies through the black radical tradition: on racial capitalism critical race theory and fugitivity,” which was published in Globalisation, Societies and Education. https://freshedpodcast.com/oddy/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we explore the meaning of comparison from a theoretical approach that combines Policy Mobilities and Assemblage theory. My guests are Steven Lewis and Rebecca Spratt. Steven Lewis is an Associate Professor of Comparative Education at Australian Catholic University where Rebecca Spratt is a PhD candidate. Their new book is Assembling Comparison: Understanding Education Policy through Mobilities and Assemblage (Bristol University Press, 2024). https://freshedpodcast.com/lewis-spratt/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we look at educational reform over time. My guest is Patricia Bromley, an associate professor in the graduate school of education at Stanford University. Together with Jared Furuta, Rie Kijima, Lisa Overbey, Minju Choi, and Heitor Santos, Patricia has recently published the article Global Determinants of Education Reform, 1960 to 2017. In the article, the team reports findings using their novel database of education reforms called the World Education Reform Database, which is freely available online: https://werd.stanford.edu/ https://freshedpodcast.com/bromley/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

This is the last week FreshEd is on holidays. We return on February 19! Please be sure to donate to FreshEd in 2024: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate -- Today we explore the learning crisis in education. In particular, we unpack the crisis narrative, which has reached a crescendo during Covid-19. With me is Michele Schweisfurth, a Professor of Comparative and International Education at the University of Glasgow. She has a new article in the International Journal of Educational Development entitled “Disaster Didacticism: Pedagogical interventions and the ‘learning crisis.’” Citation: Schweisfurth, Michele, interview with Will Brehm, FreshEd, 311, podcast audio, March 6, 2023.https://freshedpodcast.com/micheleschweisfurth-2/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/