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Guests:Gert Biesta is a Professor of Public Education in the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy, Maynooth University, and Professor of Educational Theory and Pedagogy at the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh. Description:In this episode, Dr Sophie Specjal speaks with global education thought leader Professor Gert Biesta about the purpose of education beyond knowledge transfer. He shares his journey from post-war Rotterdam to his influential academic career, introducing his three-dimensional approach to learning—qualification, socialisation, and subjectification. They discuss the importance of high expectations, student engagement, and world-centered education, exploring how teachers can help students navigate the complexities of learning and life.
This morning Jane enjoyed talking with Dario Banegas about CLIL, Bi and multilingual education, translanguaging…and the importance of napping. Dario is a lecturer in language education at Moray House School of Education & Sport, University of Edinburgh. He has 20 years of experience as an EFL secondary school teacher & teacher educator. His main interests are CLIL in Latin America, action research, and teacher development through inclusive practices. You can read Dario's recent research: Preparing future teachers for CLIL: An in-depth investigation of three cases (Version 1). British Council. Available online on the British Council Teaching English website at: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/preparing-future-teachers-clil-depth-investigation-three-cases
We discuss World-Centered Education by Gert Biesta. Gert Biesta (gertbiesta.com/) is Professor of Public Education in the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy, Maynooth University, Ireland, and Professor of Educational Theory and Pedagogy at the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, UK, where he is also deputy head of the Institute for Education, Teaching and Leadership. He holds a Visiting Professorship at the University of Agder, Norway, and has recently completed a Visiting Professorship at Uniarts, the University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland. He is co-editor of the British Educational Research Journal, co-editor of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, and associate editor of Educational Theory. He co-edits two book series with Routledge: Theorizing Education, and New Directions in the Philosophy of Education. Gert has written many books about education. Some of these are Good Education in the Age of Measurement, The Beautiful Risk of Education, and The Rediscovery of Teaching. Gert has been involved in educational policy, for instance as From 2015 until 2018 I was an associate member of the 'Onderwijsraad' (the Education Council of the Netherlands), the main government advisory body on education from 2015 to 2018. And in 2020 he was appointed by the Dutch government to the Scientific Curriculum Committee which is to provide advise about the final stages of the reform of the national framework for the curriculum for primary and secondary education. World-Centered Education makes an intervention in a long-standing discussion by arguing that education should be world-centred rather than child-centred or curriculum-centred. This is not just because education should provide students with the knowledge and skills to act effectively in the world, but is first and foremost because the world is the place where our existence as human beings takes place. This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/ I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/
This is the second conversation that I have had with Prof. Gert Biesta, and it is a special episode reflecting on the current crisis in Ukraine and the wider context of this - that some call the meta-crisis. Our first conversation earlier this year, on World-Centred Education, can be found here: https://anchor.fm/futurelearningdesign/episodes/On-World-Centred-Education---A-Conversation-with-Prof--Gert-Biesta-e1cqcj5. For more information on Gert - he is Professor of Public Education in the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy, Maynooth University, Ireland, and Professor of Educational Theory and Pedagogy at the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, UK. He holds Visiting Professorships at the University of Agder, Norway, and Uniarts, the University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland. Gert is a prolific author and has written many books on the theory of education and educational and social research, and his work has appeared in 20 different languages. He has particular interests in national and global education policy, curriculum, teaching and teacher education, democracy and citizenship education, religious education and arts education. His latest book is World-Centred Education: A View for the Present (2021) and this is a good overview of the key ideas in this seminal book. A selection of his previous books are The Rediscovery of Teaching (2017); Beyond Learning: Democratic Education for a Human Future (2015); The Beautiful Risk of Education (2015); Good Education in an Age of Measurement: Ethics, Politics, Democracy (2015) and Complexity Theory and the Politics of Education [edited with Deborah Osberg] (2010) Gert is co-editor of the British Educational Research Journal, co-editor of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, and associate editor of Educational Theory. He co-edits a two book series with Routledge: Theorizing Education (with Stefano Oliverio), and New Directions in the Philosophy of Education (with Michael A. Peters, Liz Jackson and Marek Tesar). Social Links LinkedIn: @gert-biesta Twitter: Gert suspended his Twitter account only to return when Donald Trump was no longer on the platform!
Gert Biesta is Professor of Public Education in the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy, Maynooth University, Ireland, and Professor of Educational Theory and Pedagogy at the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, UK. He holds Visiting Professorships at the University of Agder, Norway, and Uniarts, the University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland. Gert is a prolific author and has written many books on the theory of education and educational and social research, and his work has appeared in 20 different languages. He has particular interests in national and global education policy, curriculum, teaching and teacher education, democracy and citizenship education, religious education and arts education. His latest book is World-Centred Education: A View for the Present (2021) and this is a good overview of the key ideas in this seminal book. A selection of his previous books are The Rediscovery of Teaching (2017); Beyond Learning: Democratic Education for a Human Future (2015); The Beautiful Risk of Education (2015); Good Education in an Age of Measurement: Ethics, Politics, Democracy (2015) and Complexity Theory and the Politics of Education [edited with Deborah Osberg] (2010) Gert is co-editor of the British Educational Research Journal, co-editor of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, and associate editor of Educational Theory. He co-edits a two book series with Routledge: Theorizing Education (with Stefano Oliverio), and New Directions in the Philosophy of Education (with Michael A. Peters, Liz Jackson and Marek Tesar). Social Links LinkedIn: @gert-biesta Twitter: Gert suspended his Twitter account only to return when Donald Trump was no longer on the platform!
This week on CLD Talks I speak with Stuart Moir who is a Bicentennial Education Fellow within Moray House School of Education and Sport. We have a great chat about how CLD found him, work he done as a school based practitioner and the challenges within that, his current role, where CLD is and so much more! Stuart's contact information - https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/stuart-moir Twitter - @CLDTalks
This episode accompanies our July-August 'Hot Topic': “Lessons from the Learning and Teaching Conference 2021“. In what has the student experience changed such that needs outmatch support? What skills do recent Edinburgh graduates consider most valuable? How do we model an ‘Edinburgh Graduate' without sacrificing diversity and individuality? These questions are addressed by the Curriculum Transformation Programme Board in this exciting premiere of our Learning and Teaching Conference series. Members of the board Colm Harmon, Vice-Principal of Students, Richard Andrews, Head of Moray House School of Education and Sport, Iain Gordon, Head of School of Mathematics, and Lisa Kendall, Director of Academic and Student Administration for CAHSS, peel back the curtain on the Curriculum Transformation Programme and the future of the student experience. This episode serves as an introduction to the Curriculum Transformation Programme for those unfamiliar and a holistic update for those who are. We hope you enjoy the panel's insights and look forward to bringing more insights from the Learning and Teaching Conference next week! Timestamps 3:15 – Colm Harmon on the landscape of the modern student experience, the role of the university in student development, and mentality for transformation 13:20 – Richard Andrews on perceptions of the ‘Edinburgh Graduate' 16:50 – Ian Gordon on curriculum transformation from a college's perspective and deconstruction of ‘curriculum' and ‘transformation' 21:15 – Lisa Kendall on goals for transformation, student wellbeing and streamlining pathways Transcript Cathy Bovill and Cherie Woolmer's paper, "How conceptualisations of curriculum in higher education influence student-staff co-creation in and of the curriculum"
This episode of the Teaching Matters podcast accompanies our March-April 2021 series on internationalisation curated by Dr Omolabake (Labake) Fakunle as guest editor. Dr Fakunle is a Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh (UoE) and Coordinator of the MSc Education General Pathway at Moray House School of Education and Sport. In this episode, Dr. Fakunle talks to Professor James Smith. James is a Professor of African and Development Studies and Vice-Principal International at the University of Edinburgh. In this wide-ranging and fascinating conversation, the University’s international activities and collaborations, serves as a jumping off point, for an in-depth discussion that speaks to many of the key themes of the University’s strategy for 2030, and possible directions for curriculum transformation. This includes how Covid 19 transformed what’s core and what’s periphery in international research collaborations. At its heart this conversation is about celebrating the international community at the University and recognising the educational and civic value of having international and diverse classrooms and residences.
This episode of the Teaching Matters podcast accompanies our March-April 2021 series on internationalisation curated by Dr Omolabake (Labake) Fakunle as guest editor. Dr Fakunle is a Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh (UoE) and Coordinator of the MSc Education General Pathway at Moray House School of Education and Sport. In this episode, Dr Fakunle talks to Dr. Shari Sabeti, a Reader in Arts and Humanities Education at Moray House about her experience of working on an international academic collaboration project aimed at understanding Marshallese children’s experiences of displacement and belonging. They discuss the hidden narratives of international academic collaboration projects, what it takes to balance 'the doing' and 'the managing' of research, and what gets left behind in order for the publications, conference presentations and institutional data to happen. We hope you enjoy this important, practical, entertaining, and very human conversation that normalises the messiness of international collaboration projects... Further Information on Dr. Sabeti's International Academic Collaboration Project Dr. Sabeti's article about making murals – based on her participation in workshops and interview with the artist and teachers: ‘Making Murals in the Marshall Islands and Hawai’i: an exploration of the limits and possibilities of artistic agency.’ Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture (10:1)71-87 https://doi.org/10.1386/cjmc.10.1.71_1 The Project Website: http://www.map.llc.ed.ac.uk
This episode we chat with Gert Biesta. Gert has made integral contributions to the fields of education theory and the philosophy of education. Currently a Professor of Public Education in the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy at Maynooth University, Ireland and a Professor of Educational Theory and Pedagogy at the Moray House School of Education and Sport at the University of Edinburgh, UK, much of his work critically examines questions of democracy in education and education research. Visit his website at www.gertbiesta.com and check out links to selected works below:World-centred Education. (In Press/2021). London/New York: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/World-Centred-Education-A-View-for-the-Present/Biesta/p/book/9780367565527The Rediscovery of Teaching. (2017). London/New York: Routledge.https://www.routledge.com/The-Rediscovery-of-Teaching/Biesta/p/book/9781138670709Obstinate Education: Reconnecting School and Society. (2019). Leiden: Brill | Sense.https://brill.com/view/title/55081Educational Research: An Unorthodox Introduction. (2020). London: Bloomsbury.https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/educational-research-9781350097971/
This episode is part of a limited series on Place-Based Education in hybrid teaching and learning. In part 4, Robbie Nicol, a professor of place based education, and Heidi Smith, a lecturer of outdoor learning at Moray House School of Education and Sport, discuss in-person tutor meetings outdoors and it's capacity to support health and wellbeing. Please feel free to share your comments with us, either directly on the blog or you can email us at teachingmatters@ed.ac.uk.
This episode is part of a limited series on Place-Based Education in hybrid teaching and learning. In this episode, Heidi Smith a lecturer of outdoor learning at Moray House School of Education and Sport, talks to Susan McCarthy, a student at Moray House about Susan's experience of in-person dissertation supervision outdoors. Please feel free to share your comments with us, either directly on the blog or you can email us at teachingmatters@ed.ac.uk.
This episode is part of a limited series on Place-Based Education in hybrid teaching and learning. In part 2, Robbie Nicol, a professor of place based education, and Heidi Smith, a lecturer of outdoor learning at Moray House School of Education and Sport, discuss in-person dissertation supervision outdoors and it's capacity to support health and wellbeing. Please feel free to share your comments with us, either directly on the blog or you can email us at teachingmatters@ed.ac.uk.
This first episode is part of a four part series on creative approaches to practicals and field work in online and hybrid spaces. In this episode Robbie Nicol, a professor of place based education, and Heidi Smith, a lecturer of outdoor learning at Moray House School of Education and Sport, discuss the critical role of place based education in hybrid teaching and learning and it's capacity to support health and wellbeing. Please feel free to share your comments with us, either directly on the blog or you can email us at teachingmatters@ed.ac.uk. Music credit: Jeremy Marsan (https://jeremymarsan.com/)
Podcast Description “A lot of these schools don’t even have instructors, right. A lot them are project-based…it’s just like, ya know, figure it out by yourself.” Dr. Kate M. Miltner is a TRAIN@Ed Postdoctoral Fellow at the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh. She received her PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, and she has a MSc in Media and Communications (Merit) from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BA in English from Barnard College, Columbia University. She has had research appointments in the Research department at Twitter and the Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research New England. Her research agenda focuses on the intersection of technology, social location, and structural power and her research has previously been featured in Wired, Slate, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Time, and the BBC. Additional Resources The Tech Leavers Study Twitter Dr. Kate Miltner Become a #causeascene Podcast sponsor because disruption and innovation are products of individuals who take bold steps in order to shift the collective and challenge the status quo. Learn more > All music for the #causeascene podcast is composed and produced by Chaos, Chao Pack, and Listen on SoundCloud. Listen to more great #causeascene podcasts full podcast list >
M&M Podcast: Discussions from Edinburgh at the Intersections of Education and Technology
In the third episode of the M&M (Michael and Myles) podcast, we try to define the different types of artificial intelligence (AI), and discuss the narratives and overall presentation of AI in the collective imagination of education (and why all of this is important). This episode was recorded on location in Simon Laurie House at Moray House School of Education and Sport. Michael Gallagher is a Lecturer in Digital Education at the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. Myles Blaney is a service manager in Digital Learning Applications and Media. We are both involved on the Expanding the Teacher Function project and the Distance Learning at Scale project which is tasked with the investigation and delivery of MicroMasters and Masters online programmes.
In episode 5, Karen Howie (Technology Enhanced Learning Team Manager in Learning, Teaching and Web, Information Services) hosts a conversation about blogging to develop your professional profile. She talks with University of Edinburgh staff members, Eli Appleby-Donald (Learning Technologist at Edinburgh College of Art) and Lorna Campbell (Senior Service Manager for Learning Technology in Learning, Teaching and Web, Information Services), and PhD student, James Lamb (a Doctoral Student within the Centre for Research in Digital Education, in the Moray House School of Education), about the art of blogging, the difference between various types of blogs, frequency of posts, maintaining and promoting a blog, how to deal with 'blogger's block', and engaging with your audience.
In episode 5, Karen Howie (Technology Enhanced Learning Team Manager in Learning, Teaching and Web, Information Services) hosts a conversation about blogging to develop your professional profile. She talks with University of Edinburgh staff members, Eli Appleby-Donald (Learning Technologist at Edinburgh College of Art) and Lorna Campbell (Senior Service Manager for Learning Technology in Learning, Teaching and Web, Information Services), and PhD student, James Lamb (a Doctoral Student within the Centre for Research in Digital Education, in the Moray House School of Education), about the art of blogging, the difference between various types of blogs, frequency of posts, maintaining and promoting a blog, how to deal with 'blogger's block', and engaging with your audience.
Akwugo Emejulu has written Community Development as Micropolitics: Comparing Theories, Policies, and Politics in America and Britain (Policy Press, 2015). Emejulu is a lecturer at the Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh, and co-director of the Center for Education for Racial Equality. What is community development exactly? Emejulu’s book integrates historical, theoretical, and comparative approaches to answering this difficult question. She describes several discourses, including: Democracy, Power, Poverty, Empowerment, and Populist, and maps how community development has changed in the United States and also in Britain. The book informs theoretical questions about how social movements use language to link leaders and followers and larger questions of participatory democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Akwugo Emejulu has written Community Development as Micropolitics: Comparing Theories, Policies, and Politics in America and Britain (Policy Press, 2015). Emejulu is a lecturer at the Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh, and co-director of the Center for Education for Racial Equality. What is community development exactly? Emejulu’s book integrates historical, theoretical, and comparative approaches to answering this difficult question. She describes several discourses, including: Democracy, Power, Poverty, Empowerment, and Populist, and maps how community development has changed in the United States and also in Britain. The book informs theoretical questions about how social movements use language to link leaders and followers and larger questions of participatory democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Akwugo Emejulu has written Community Development as Micropolitics: Comparing Theories, Policies, and Politics in America and Britain (Policy Press, 2015). Emejulu is a lecturer at the Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh, and co-director of the Center for Education for Racial Equality. What is community development exactly? Emejulu’s book integrates historical, theoretical, and comparative approaches to answering this difficult question. She describes several discourses, including: Democracy, Power, Poverty, Empowerment, and Populist, and maps how community development has changed in the United States and also in Britain. The book informs theoretical questions about how social movements use language to link leaders and followers and larger questions of participatory democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Akwugo Emejulu has written Community Development as Micropolitics: Comparing Theories, Policies, and Politics in America and Britain (Policy Press, 2015). Emejulu is a lecturer at the Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh, and co-director of the Center for Education for Racial Equality. What is community development exactly? Emejulu’s book integrates historical, theoretical, and comparative approaches to answering this difficult question. She describes several discourses, including: Democracy, Power, Poverty, Empowerment, and Populist, and maps how community development has changed in the United States and also in Britain. The book informs theoretical questions about how social movements use language to link leaders and followers and larger questions of participatory democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices