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Trying to write this introduction, I’m stuck looking at a blank page. The cursor is blinking, teasing me to say something, anything. But I can’t. I’m stuck. Has that ever happened to you – the stress of writing? It’s not unusual. And yet writing is essential. We communicate by writing. We process ideas by writing. Writing provides us a creative outlet. So how do people approach the writing process? Over the past year, I’ve asked FreshEd guests how they write. In today’s episode, you’ll hear from a range of people providing diverse perspectives on writing. You’ll hear that no one approaches writing the same way. Hopefully there will be some insight into the writing process that can help you become a better writer. freshedpodcast.com/305-questionnaire -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today Michael Rumbelow joins me to talk about his FreshEd Flux episode. I recommend you listen to that episode before you continue with this one. In our conversation today, we talk about maths education and the power of block play. We even listen to a few clips of Michael’s Flux episode to dissect the subtext and sounds. Michael Rumbelow is a PhD student at the University of Bristol. freshedpodcast.com/rumbelow -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we air the last episode of Flux Season 2. Flux is a FreshEd series where graduate students turn their research interests into narrative-based podcasts. This episode was created by Michael Rumbelow, a PhD student at the University of Bristol. In his Flux episode, Michael takes listeners on a sonic journey to explore block play. He weaves together sounds and ideas to show the power and possibilities of play. I hope you enjoy today’s episode. freshedpodcast.com/flux-rumbelow -- Credits: This episode was created, written, produced and edited by Michael Rumbelow. Johannah Fahey was the executive producer. Brett Lashua and Will Brehm were the producers. Vicki Mitchem played Virginia Woolf and Bertha Ronge, Dave Jackson played Friedrich Froebel, Karl Marx, and Charles Dickens, and Simone Datzberger played Melanie Klein. Studio audio technicians were Patrick Robinson and Simon Vause. Thank you and Aray to Sifo Lakaw, chairman of the Association of Pangcah Language Revitalization in Taiwan, Adrian Rook

Today Aizuddin and Nazmi Anuar join me to talk about Aizuddin’s FreshEd Flux episode. I recommend you listen to that episode before you continue with this one. In today's episode, we discuss the power of memory when thinking about development and excavate some of the layers in Aizuddin’s Flux episode. Aizuddin Anuar is a lecturer in education at Keele University and his brother, Nazmi, teaches architecture in Malaysia. freshedpodcast.com/anuar -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we air the next episode of Flux. a FreshEd series where graduate students turn their research interests into narrative-based podcasts. This episode was created by Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar, who recently graduated with his PhD from Oxford and is now a lecturer in education at Keele University. In his Flux episode, Aizuddin problematizes the meaning of development. Is development always a forward motion? Or does it weave side to side like a river? And how does development get written onto lives? Is it always bad? Is it always good? Aizuddin meanders through these questions, connecting family memory to the development of Malaysia. freshedpodcast.com/flux-anuar -- Credits: Episode created, written, produced, and edited by Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar. Executive Producer: Johannah Fahey Producers: Brett Lashua and Will Brehm Voices: Narrator, Inner monologue, Translation of Mak, Willard C. Bush: Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar Long: Nazmi Anuar Joint reading from text: Nazmi Anuar and Ahmad Akif Mak: Noraini Ahmad Y

Here we are. 300 episodes. I can’t believe it really. FreshEd has been putting out regular content for 2,569 days. That’s just over 7 years and averages a new episode every 8.5 days. We’ve produced close to 200 hours of recorded conversations about education broadly defined. Over 1 million words transcribed. In that time, we started a fellowship program for graduate students and two spin-off podcasts in other languages. There are so many people to thank, from the FreshEd team, who make this all possible, to our big institutional donors, who give us the freedom to produce independent content. I don’t have time to thank everyone who makes FreshEd possible. But I’d like to pay special tribute to the thousands of listeners who tune in every week from across the globe. Because of you, the whole FreshEd team devotes countless hours to make the show possible week after week. So thank you. Thank you for your support, your engagement, and your shared love of education and podcasts. We’ll keep going so long as you k

Today we air the next episode of Flux. This episode was created by Bhavani Kunjulakshmi, a recent graduate of the UCL Institute of Education and staff writer at Feminism in India. Bhavani’s episode explores the meaning of colonization and decolonization in international development and education. We might think we know what colonization is. The history. The actors involved. The exploitation. But what does it feel like? And then what would it mean to decolonize? And what would that feel like? Bhavani explores these questions. freshedpodcast.com/flux-kunjulakshmi -- This episode was created, written, produced and edited by Bhavani Kunjulakshmi. Johannah Fahey was the executive producer. Brett Lashua and Will Brehm were the producers. Fred Brehm read the quote by Noah Chomsky and Fran Vavrus read the quote by Martha Nussbaum. Music was composed by M.C Couper The bell hooks’ clip was a part of ‘A Public Dialogue between bell hooks & Laverne Cox hosted by Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts’ (Creative comm

Today Yanan Yu joins me to talk about her FreshEd Flux episode, which aired last week. Spoiler alert: we talk about her episode in depth in today’s show, so if you haven’t already listened to her episode, I recommend you do so right now. Really, hit pause, go back and listen to her flux episode, and then come back here to go behind the scenes. In our conversation today, Yanan details what it’s like to live in a vision centric world and the difficulty of making a podcast. She talks about moving to the United Kingdom and inclusive education. Yanan Yu completed her master’s degree at the University of Bristol and recently finished an internship at the BBC. She is currently looking to enrol in a PhD program where she can further her studies on inclusive education. freshedpodcast.com/yu -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we start the second season of Flux, a FreshEd series where graduate students turn their research interests into narrative-based podcasts. To kick things off, Yanan Yu tells a story that raises some interesting questions about how ability should be defined. Is it enough that she has a level ten certification in piano? And a master’s degree? And now works at the BBC? Or does she need something else to be considered able? freshedpodcast.com/flux-yu -- Today’s episode was created, written, produced, and edited by Yanan Yu. Johannah Fahey was the executive producer and Brett Lashua and Will Brehm were the producers. Flux theme music by Joseph Minadeo of Pattern Based music. The piano pieces in this episode, listed below, are all played by Yanan Yu: Claude Debussy: Ballade L. 70 Frederic Chopin: Etudes Op. 10 No. 3 Franz Liszt : Un Sospiro, Trois Etudes de Concert S.144 Sergei Rachmaninoff: Elegy Op. 3 No. 1 Wanghua Chu, 春江舟影 Thanks to Haozhou Ding, Zeyu Wang, Yishuang Xu, Xiaotong Wang and other acti

Today we explore the meaning of regionalism in the South Pacific. With me is Seu’ula Johansson-Fua who uses the concept of Wansolwara to think about creating a regionalism from within the “sea of islands” that is the South Pacific. Seu’ula Johansson-Fua is the director of the institute of education at the University of the South Pacific. Her new article is Wansolwara: Sustainable Development, Education and Regional Collaboration in Oceania, which was published in the Comparative Education Review. freshedpodcast.com/johansson-fua -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today Kehaulani Vaughn joins me to discuss Trans-Indigenous education primarily on Turtle Island, the name used by Indigenous peoples for North America. Kēhaulani Vaughn (Kanaka Maoli) is an assistant professor in the Department of Education, Culture, and Society and the Pacific Islands Studies Initiative at the University of Utah. She has recently co-written, with Theresa Jean Ambo, an article entitled “Trans-Indigenous Education: Indigeneity, Relationships, and Higher Education” which was published in the Comparative Education Review. freshedpodcast.com/vaughn -- 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 Mir Abdullah Miri joins me to talk about his escape from Afghanistan and takes me inside the production of “The Desert of Death,” an episode he made for the Intercepted podcast. Mir Abdullah Miri is an Afghanistan Observatory Scholar at New America. In Afghanistan, he served on the faculty of Herat University. In the fall of 2021, Miri was evacuated from Kabul to England, and now lives in Bath. freshedpodcast.com/miri -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

Today we explore higher education assessment for disabled students. My guest is Juuso Nieminen, an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong. Juuso argues that assessment adjustments are often technical processes that presuppose a medical logical. Juuso’s new article is “A spanner in the works: the portrayal of disabled students in assessment adjustment research” which was published in the journal International Studies in Sociology of Education. freshedpodcast.com/nienminen -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

It’s great to be back after an extended holiday. I’m recharged and ready to go. We have an exciting line-up for the rest of the year, including our FreshEd Flux episodes. Before we start today, I’d like say hello to all our new listeners who may be joining us for the first time as they start their degrees at universities across the Northern Hemisphere. I hope you find FreshEd useful in your studies and please be sure to get in touch! We love hearing from listeners. Over the past few weeks on holiday, I’ve been doing a lot of reading. It’s been really relaxing. Reading is a fundamental part of education. There’s no way around it. There’s even an idea called “foundational literacy” that is being championed – not without controversy -- within international development circles. But let’s put that to one side. I’m more interested in what people are reading. Have you ever wondered what some of your teachers or fellow peers are reading? Today we continue our mini-series called the FreshEd Questionnaire. Ove

Hi FreshEd Listeners. We’re on holiday for the month of August. We’ll be back in September with new episodes, including the next round of Flux. I’ve already listened to a few rough cuts and they’re going to be great. While we’re away, please send us your recommendations for future guests as well as consider donating to FreshEd to keep independent media alive. FreshEd is nothing without you. Thanks for all your support and I’ll be back in September! freshedpodcast.com/contact-2/ -- Today the journalist, author, and academic, Gary Younge, joins me to talk about race, identity, and education. Our conversation starts with his reflections on the UK Government’s Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, which published its report in March. We then touch on a range of issues from across his career. Gary Younge is a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester. He worked for the Guardian newspaper for two decades and has written five books. His book Who are We – and should it matter in the 21st century?

Hi FreshEd Listeners. We’re on holiday for the month of August. We’ll be back in September with new episodes, including the next round of Flux. I’ve already listened to a few rough cuts and they’re going to be great. While we’re away, please send us your recommendations for future guests as well as consider donating to FreshEd to keep independent media alive. FreshEd is nothing without you. Thanks for all your support and I’ll be back in September! https://freshedpodcast.com/contact-2/ -- Did you know that today there are more forcibly displaced people than at any time since World War II? The total number comes out to roughly 65 million, including internally displaced peoples, asylum seekers, and refugees. That’s roughly 1 out of every 113 people on Earth. Today I speak with three professors from Teachers College, Columbia University about their research project on refugees, which is being funded by the United States Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration. At Teachers College,

Hi FreshEd Listeners. We’re on holiday for the month of August. We’ll be back in September with new episodes, including the next round of Flux. I’ve already listened to a few rough cuts and they’re going to be great. While we’re away, please send us your recommendations for future guests as well as consider donating to FreshEd to keep independent media alive. FreshEd is nothing without you. Thanks for all your support and I’ll be back in September! https://freshedpodcast.com/contact-2/ -- There’s an urban legend that Winston Churchill, near the end of World War II, once said “never let a good crisis go to waste.” President Obama’s chief of staff, Rahman Emanuel, certainly said similar words in 2009 after the Global Financial Crisis. Is the crisis in education today caused by the coronavirus an opportunity to make lasting and positive change? How can we be sure not to waste this moment by returning to normal? Yong Zhao joins me to talk about educational change in the time of COVID-19. He argues that we must

Hi FreshEd Listeners. We’re on holiday for the month of August. We’ll be back in September with new episodes, including the next round of Flux. I’ve already listened to a few rough cuts and they’re going to be great. While we’re away, please send us your recommendations for future guests as well as consider donating to FreshEd to keep independent media alive. FreshEd is nothing without you. Thanks for all your support and I’ll be back in September! https://freshedpodcast.com/contact-2/ -- Today we continue our exploration of Teach for All. Two weeks ago, we explored Teach for All counter-narratives. Now we look at empirical research evidence across contexts where Teach for All operates. With me are Matthew Thomas, Emilee Rauschenberger and Katy Crawford-Garrett who have recently co-edited Examining Teach For All: International Perspectives on a Growing Global Network. The collection “brings together research focused on Teach for All and its affiliate programmes to explore the organization’s impact on educat

Today we explore the role of students and youth in global education governance. With me is Sebastian Berger, the Executive Director of the Global Student Forum. The Global Student Forum is the umbrella organisation of the world’s major representative student federations and the only independent, democratic and representative student governance structure dedicated to promoting the rights and perspectives of student organisations and movements on the global level. Sebastian Berger has been an active member of the international student movement for years, holding various leadership positions on the local, national and international level. He previously held the office of Vice President in the European Students’ Union (ESU) and was a founding member of the GSF Steering Committee. He’s currently paused his Master’s degree to work full-time with the Global Student Forum. freshedpodcast.com/berger -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.fresh