Outcahst: The Rehg Podcast
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Outcahst: The Rehg PodcastMay 03, 2020
Political Anger, Educational Hope
Recorded 11 January 2023: a discussion of anger (drawing on Myisha Cherry and Audre Lorde) and the role, possibility, importance, what have you, of hope in the classroom.
Ed.Space (Episode 5): Steve Connolly and Robert Eaglestone on Disciplinary Knowledge and Subject Identities
Dr. Steve Connolly (Senior Lecturer in Teacher Education, University of Bedfordshire) and Robert Eaglestone (Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought, Royal Holloway, University of London) discuss constructions of disciplinary knowledge and subject identities, powerful knowledge, and cultural literacy.
Steve has recently published an article on these issues in Media and Film Studies. Contact Steve via email: Steve.Connolly@beds.ac.uk
Robert has published on English Studies, discplinary knowledge, and subject identities here; and will be addressing these issues in a forthcoming pamphlet for the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain's IMPACT series. IMPACT pamphlets are free to download. Contact Robert via email: R.Eaglestone@rhul.ac.uk
Ed. Space (Episode 4): Emile Bojesen, Forms of Education
In this episode, Neil, Lewis, and I are speaking with Emile Bojesen, about his new book Forms of Education, published this year by Routledge. The book critique what Emile calls the humanist legacy in education, and goes on to explore what educational experiences might be, and mean, outside or beyond the humanist frame.
Emile is Reader in Education at the University of Winchester. He is also a musician, we’re delighted that he’s written a piece of music for our podcast – this can be heard at the end of the episode.
The four participants can be contacted by email and/or Twitter (though responses may be slower than usual during July and August):
Emile: Emile.Bojesen@winchester.ac.uk; @eternalunlearn
Lewis: l.stockwell2@herts.ac.uk; @lewis_stockwell
Neil: Neil.Hopkins@beds.ac.uk; @NeilHopkins22
Oli: Oliver.Belas@beds.ac.uk; @MrBelas
Links
Click here for an interview Lewis did with Emile, about Forms of Education
Click here for the publisher page for Emile’s book
Emile’s latest album, Scrape, will available from LINE imprintfrom 10 July
Ed. Space (Episode 3): "Creating Sites of Community Education and Democracy" - Neil Hopkins on Henry Morris, the Cambridgeshire village college system, and democratic education
In this episode - recorded 16 April 2020 - Neil Hopkins discusses his recent article on Henry Morris and his Cambridgeshire village college system, and the implications of both for current thinking about the possibilities and problems of democratic education.
Neil Hopkins is Senior Lecturer in Education Studies at the University of Bedfordshire; details of how to contact him can be found on his faculty webpage here.
Neil's article on Morris and the village colleges has been published online by BERJ (British Educational Research Journal). You must have an individual or institutional subscription to access the piece; if you don't have a subscription, contact Neil (authors are usually given access to a certain number of free downloads of their work).
Though we weren't able to include it in the published version of our conversation, Lewis and Oli spoke briefly with Neil about the clarity of his writing. Neil has spoken in the past of Orwell's influence on his work, so here's a link to Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language."
Ed. Space (Episode 2): Mary Richardson - Teacher trust and educational assessment in the wake of COVID-19
Welcome to the third-recorded but second-released episode of Ed. Space. In this episode – recorded 27 April 2020 – Neil, Lewis, and Oli speak with Mary Richardson, Associate Professor of Educational Assessment at UCL’s Institute of Education. Our conversation focussed primarily on educational assessment and the national examinations system, and the possible implications for these during and in the wake of this COVID-19 pandemic.
Mary’s faculty pagecan be accessed here(from there, you’ll be able to follow up her academic publications).
Here’s an article Mary wrote for The Guardian last year, published as the 2019 A Level results came out.
Here’s a link to a blog Mary posted (the same day as our conversation), on assessment, trust, and the pandemic.
Mary’s Twitter handle is @miriched. (She is, in her own words, always interested in constructive bickering online.)
Here’s a link to the Ofqual’s documents on assessment arrangements for the period of lockdown.
Ed. Space (Episode 1): "That Which is Worthy of Love" - Lewis Stockwell on partnership in HE, Aristotle, and friendship
In this episode - recorded 30 March 2020 - Neil Hopkins and Oli Belas speak with Lewis Stockwell about his collaborative project on Aristotle, friendship, and student-staff partership in HE.
The conversation is based on Lewis's paper, co-written with Dr. Karen Smith and Prof. Philip Woods, "That Which is Worthy of Love: A Philosophical Framework for Reflection on Staff-Student Partnerships for the Future University," forthcoming in the journal Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education.
"That Which is Worthy of Love" is part of a larger project, funded by the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain.
Further Information, Resources, and Links
Lewis Stockwell is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Education and Outdoor Learning, University of Hertfordshire
Dr Karen Smith is Reader in Higher Education & Programme Director of the Professional Doctorate in Education, University of Hertfordshire
Professor Philip Woods is Professor of Educational Policy, Democracy and Leadership & Director of the Centre for Educational Leadership, University of Hertfordshire
And if you want to do some reading...