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Today Steve Carney joins me to talk about his new co-written book with Ulla Ambrosius Madsen entitled “Education in Radical Uncertainty: Transgression in Theory and Method.” The book offers a major critique of the field of comparative education and asks us to dwell in experience rather than make value judgements. This is a powerful book in both form and content and demands to be read by anyone working in the field of comparative and international education. Steve Carney is a Professor of Educational Studies at Roskilde University, Denmark. freshedpodcast.com/carney/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected] Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Love the podcast? Become a member to support FreshEd! freshedpodcast.com/support/#join -- Today we interrogate the idea of creativity. My guest, Oli Mould, says 21st Century capitalism has redefined creativity from being a power to create something from nothing to the ability to create new products for markets. Creativity, in other words, feeds capitalism’s own growth. Students and workers alike are told they must be entrepreneurial and flexible to survive the global economy. We are told businesses and governments seek out these character traits. In effect, the power to create has become an individual characteristic that can be traded and exploited. Oli Mould is a human geographer based at Royal Holloway, University of London. He argues for a creativity that forges entirely new ways of societal organization. Oli Mould works at Royal Holloway, University of London. His book is Against Creativity. www.freshedpodcast.com/olimould/ -- Get in touch! LinkedIn: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]

Love the podcast? Become a member to support FreshEd! freshedpodcast.com/support/#join -- Today we go inside the pledging event for the Global Partnership for Education, held during this year's UN General Assembly in New York, where donors announced new commitments to finance education. What does it mean to pledge money to the future? And how do those promises reorder things in the present? My guest is Gita Steiner-Khamsi, who was in the room. Gita Steiner-Khamsi is the William Heard Kilpatrick Professor of Comparative Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and holds the honorary UNESCO Chair of Comparative Education Policy at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Her most recent book is entitled Data for accountability: Global trends in school reform, which is available open access. https://freshedpodcast.com/433-steiner-khamsi/ -- Get in touch! LinkedIn: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]

Love the podcast? Become a member to support FreshEd! https://freshedpodcast.com/support/#join -- Today we explore the education origins of the cockroach protests in India. My guest is Susan Ann Samuel. Susan Ann Samuel is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in International Climate Politics at the University of Leeds. She’s recently written in The Conversation about India’s cockroach Movement. -- freshedpodcast.com/samuel -- Get in touch! LinkedIn: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]

Join our growing FreshEd community to support the podcast and receive exclusive benefits. Sign up at FreshEdpodcast.com. -- Today, Linda Darling-Hammond joins me to talk about her new co-authored book Empowered Educators: How high-performing systems shape teaching quality around the world. The book explores how several countries and jurisdictions have developed comprehensive teaching and learning systems that produce a range of positive outcomes, from student achievement to equity and from a professionalized teaching workforce to the integration of research and practice. Linda Darling-Hammond is the president of the Learning Policy Institute and a Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University. https://freshedpodcast.com/lindadarlinghammond/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]

If you want to join our growing community, sign up at FreshEdpodcast.com. -- Today we take stock of academic publishing in education research. From the massive growth in article submissions, to the growing profit margins of the major publishers and to the impact Generative AI is having on scholarship – we take a critical look at the state of publishing. With me is Gustavo Fischman who was the previous editor of Education Policy Analysis Archives and is the current co-editor in chief of AERA Open. Gustavo Fischman is a professor of education policy at Arizona State University. A few years ago he co-wrote the piece “Education research is still the hardest science: a proposal for improving its trustworthiness and usability.” freshedpodcast.com/fischman/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]

Love the podcast? Become a member to support FreshEd! https://freshedpodcast.com/support/#join -- Today we mark the 25th anniversary of September 11th by unpacking that day’s lasting impact on society, culture, and schools in the United States. My Guest is Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher. Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Teaching Beyond September 11th curriculum project. -- freshedpodcast.com/431-ghaffar-kucher -- Get in touch! LinkedIn: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]

FreshEd will be back next week with new episodes! Not a member? Join us! https://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: [email protected] Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/

If you're a student, FreshEd now has a membership tier just for you. StudentFresh is $5/month and helps keep FreshEd free and open for everyone, while giving you a way to directly support the show. https://freshedpodcast.com/support/#studentfresh -- Today we talk about Black Lives Matter and what it means for the field of comparative and international education. With me are Sharon Walker and Krystal Strong, who have recently co-edited with Derron Wallace, Arathi Sriprakash, Leon Tikly, and Crain Soudien, a special issue of Comparative Education Review entitled “Black Lives Matter and Global Struggles for Racial Justice in Education.” freshedpodcast.com/walker-strong/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected] Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

We've launched a student membership tier. Join today if you are a student who wants to support the work of FreshEd! https://freshedpodcast.com/support/#studentfresh -- Today we explore the philosophy of education from global perspectives. My guest is Liz Jackson. Liz Jackson is the Karen Lo Eugene Chuang Professor in Diversity and Equity and Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong. She has a forthcoming book entitled Understanding Philosophy of Education, which will be published by Edward Elgar early in 2027. freshedpodcast.com/lizjackson -- Get in touch! LinkedIn: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]

Today we explore the research base that tries to answer if Generative AI improves student learning. My guest, Alyssa Lawson, recently co-wrote an article that critically analysed two meta analyses of ChatGPT that found it did indeed improve learning. Alyssa and her colleagues aren’t so sure. Alyssa Lawson is a lecturer in the department of psychological and brain sciences at Johns Hopkins University. Together with Amedee Martella, Joshua Weidlick, Miriam Mulders and Josef Buchner, Alyssa co-wrote the new article “Color me confounded: a critical analysis of media comparisons on ChaptGPT in education” which was published in Computers & Education. freshedpodcast.com/lawson -- Get in touch! LinkedIn: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]

Today we explore the experiences of Black Caribbean youth in the United Kingdom and the United States. My guest is Derron Wallace, an assistant professor of sociology and education at Brandeis University. Derron Wallace’s new book is The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth. freshedpodcast.com/wallace/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected] Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Today we explore the adoption and scaling of education technology across South and Southeast Asia. My guests are Molly Wyss and Brad Olsen. Molly Wyss is an assistant project director at the Centre for Universal Education in the Global Economy and Development Program at Brookings, where Brad Olsen is a Senior Fellow. There new report is entitled From Access to Impact: Government Decisionmaking and Scaling of EdTech in South and Southeast Asia. freshedpodcast.com/wyss-olsen -- Get in touch! LinkedIn: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]

Today we unpack various sources of distortion when calculating standardised effect sizes in education evaluations. This might seem technical, but understanding how measures of effectiveness are calculated can help us temper the confidence we place in claims about "what works." My guest is Jack Rossiter. Jack Rossiter is an independent researcher and non-resident fellow at the Centre for Global Development. Together with David Evans, Susannah Hares, and Catherine Henny, he recently co-wrote the working paper entitled “The Illusion of Comparability Among Standardised Effect Sizes: Why Education Evaluations Should Report Raw Effects.” freshedpodcast.com/rossiter -- Get in touch! LinkedIn: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]

How do teachers learn to teach? My guests today, Maria Teresa Tatto and Ian Menter, discuss the many paths to become a teacher in England and the USA and the policy environment that is shaping current practice. Learning to be a teacher, they argue, requires much more than simply having a lot of content knowledge. Just because you may know math really well does not mean that you would be a good math teach. Teaching is a skill that must be systematically learned and practiced. Together with Katharine Burn, Trevor Mutton, and Ian Thompson, Teresa and Ian have a new co-written book entitled Learning to Teach in England and the United States: The Evolution of Policy and Practice, which was published by Routledge earlier this year. Maria Teresa Tatto is Professor in the Division of Educational Leadership and Innovation at Arizona State University, and the Southwest Borderlands Professor of Comparative Education at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. Ian Menter is Emeritus Professor of Teacher Education at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. www.freshedpodcast.com/tatto-menter -- Get in touch! LinkedIn: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected]