About Will Brehm
Dr. Will Brehm is an Associate Professor of Education and International Development at the IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society. He is also an Adjunct Researcher at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan) and an Honorary Adjunct Professor at the Royal University of Phnom Penh (Cambodia). He supports the World Bank on education-related projects in Cambodia and Afghanistan. Will holds a Ph.D. in comparative education from the University of Hong Kong. He was awarded a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science postdoctoral research fellowship at the Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo and was an Assistant Professor at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan) for three years. While in Tokyo, Will taught at Waseda’s Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies, the University of Tokyo, Keio University, and Sophia University.
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Student Debt
For over two years, this podcast has aimed to disseminate academic ideas through the medium of audio. This year FreshEd will continue to air interviews with scholars from around the world, but we are also going to experiment. Over the holidays, I got to thinking about new ways I could use audio. Listeners are now familiar […]
CalvinJohn Smiley
Prisoner Re-entry in the USA
Today we take a broad definition of education and explore the process of released prisoners re-integrating into American society. My guest is CalvinJohn Smiley, an assistant professor at Hunter College, City University of New York. Calvin is currently co-editing a book with Keesha Middlemass entitled Prisoner Reentry in the 21st Century: Critical Perspectives of Returning […]
William I. Robinson
The Next Economic Crisis?
February 12, 2018
by Will Brehm
Linda Darling-Hammond
Empowered educators
To kick off the new year, we have a special show for you. 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 […]
Susan Robertson & Roger Dale
2017 in Review
December 28, 2017
by Will Brehm
Joan Dassin & Aryn Baxter
International scholarships in higher education
Many students move across national borders to attend university. Although the number of these globally mobile students is small compared to the total number of students enrolled in higher education, there numbers are increasing. But the patterns are changing, with more regional and south-south mobility. The role of scholarships in promoting these new patterns of […]
Daniel Friedrich & Erica Colmenares
El Chavo del Ocho as a New Direction in Comparative Education
Today we talk about a television show that was hugely popular in Latin America called El Chavo del Ocho. The show crossed borders across Latin America, taking on a multiplicity of meaning. My guests today, Daniel Friedrich and Erica Colmenares, have a new edited collection that explores how the show worked and produced particular visions […]