For experts working in the field and for interested listeners alike, this podcast discusses and examines the UN's Sustainable Development Goal 4 (https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal4) (Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all). We hear from experts, development partners, researchers, and teachers about their education systems; specifically, what is working, and what needs to change. How do you fix an education crisis? Find out here.
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Federico Waitoller on Neoliberalism and Education
The associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago talks about his experiences looking into intersectionalities of race and disability in Chicago, the effect of free-market neoliberalism on the inclusion agenda, and his award-winning book, Excluded by Choice: Urban Students with Disabilities in the Education Marketplace.Listen to the wonderful DiveIn Podcast here (Spotify link).Find Excluded by Choice here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2/2/2024 • 32 minutes, 34 seconds
Barry Cooper on the Role of Teachers
The principle of the Global College joins me from a rainy Madrid to talk about the role and responsibility of teachers, why it's important to make schools welcoming, why curricula struggle to keep pace with technology, and how artificial intelligence can support (but not replace!) teaching.Check out Barry’s short book on education in a post-AI world: free online here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
1/26/2024 • 24 minutes, 7 seconds
Xammie Likoko on Igniting the Fires of Learning
Starting series two off with a bang, I talk to Xammie Likoko about why science lessons should be more dangerous, how hands-on and project-based learning can be naturally more inclusive (and more fun), and the value of teamwork in the classroom. Xammie and I taught together at a school in Kenya which, despite our best efforts in the science lab, is still there. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
