Episodes

  • FreshEd #393 – Teachers’ Work (Kathryn Anderson-Levitt)

    FreshEd #393 – Teachers’ Work (Kathryn Anderson-Levitt)
    Jul 6 2025
    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
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    33 mins
  • FreshEd #392 – Spaces of Immigration (Catherine Boland Erkkila)

    FreshEd #392 – Spaces of Immigration (Catherine Boland Erkkila)
    Jun 29 2025
    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
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    33 mins
  • FreshEd #380 - Reimagining education in emergencies (Ritesh Shah & Francine Menashy)

    FreshEd #380 - Reimagining education in emergencies (Ritesh Shah & Francine Menashy)
    Jun 22 2025
    FreshEd will return next week with new episodes! -- 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 try to reimagine education in emergencies. With me are Ritesh Shah and Francine Menashy. They have recently co-edited a special Forum for the journal Compare which put practitioners and scholars in conversation about the “colonial imperialist, racialized, and capitalist logics” that underpin the field of education in emergencies, known as EiE. Ritesh Shah is a senior lecturer in the faculty of education and social work at the University of Auckland and Francine Menashy is an associate professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Their new Compare Forum is entitled “Reimagining education in emergencies: a conversation between practitioners and scholars.” freshedpodcast.com/380-shah-menashy/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com
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    30 mins
  • FreshEd #152 – Contesting Islamophobia in education and society (Mariam Durrani)

    FreshEd #152 – Contesting Islamophobia in education and society (Mariam Durrani)
    Jun 15 2025
    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
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    32 mins
  • FreshEd #308 – White Ignorance in Global Education (Francine Menashy and Zeena Zakharia)

    FreshEd #308 – White Ignorance in Global Education (Francine Menashy and Zeena Zakharia)
    Jun 8 2025
    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
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    30 mins
  • FreshEd #391 – The Care Economy (Tim Jackson)

    FreshEd #391 – The Care Economy (Tim Jackson)
    Jun 1 2025
    Today we explore the care economy. My guest is Tim Jackson who chronicles in his latest book his own journey of valuing health instead of wealth and care instead of growth. Tim Jackson is an emeritus professor at the University of Surrey and Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity. His new book is The Care Economy (Polity 2025). https://freshedpodcast.com/jackson391/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com
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    33 mins
  • FreshEd #390 – Constructing Student Mobility (Stephanie K. Kim)

    FreshEd #390 – Constructing Student Mobility (Stephanie K. Kim)
    May 25 2025
    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
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    29 mins
  • FreshEd #389 – Transforming Education Systems (Sara Ruto, Rakesh Rajani, and Brad Olsen)

    FreshEd #389 – Transforming Education Systems (Sara Ruto, Rakesh Rajani, and Brad Olsen)
    May 18 2025
    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
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    29 mins