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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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2018, Chinese Translations, Development, Entrepreneurship, Policy, Teachers Pedagogy & classroom practice, Privatisation, markets & neoliberalism, Teachers & the teaching profession

Ted Dintersmith
What School Could Be

March 19, 2018 by Will Brehm

2018, Economics, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Higher Education, Human Capital, Policy, Social Movements, Sociology, Teachers, Unions Higher education & its contradictions, Marketisation & academic labour, Privatisation, markets & neoliberalism

Ioannis Costas Batlle & Aurelien Mondon
University Strikes in the UK: Re-Imagining Higher Education

March 12, 2018 by Will Brehm

2018, Decolonization, French Translations, Globalization, Human Capital, Human Rights, Privatization, Sociology Critical race theory & racism in education, Neoliberal ideology, Privatisation, markets & neoliberalism, Race, colonialism & decolonisation

Henry Giroux
The Challenge of Fascism

March 5, 2018 by Will Brehm

2018, Debt, Economics, Higher Education, Human Capital, Special Shows Access & equity, Higher education & its contradictions

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 […]

February 26, 2018 by Will Brehm

2018, Decolonization, Race, Sociology

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 […]

February 18, 2018 by Will Brehm

2018, Debt, Economics, Globalization, Sociology Neoliberal ideology, Privatisation, markets & neoliberalism

William I. Robinson
The Next Economic Crisis?

February 12, 2018 by Will Brehm

2018, Comparative Education, Matthew Thomas, Teachers, Unions Teacher education & preparation, Teachers & the teaching profession

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 […]

February 5, 2018 by Will Brehm

2017, Comparative Education, Globalization, Year in Review Privatisation, markets & neoliberalism

Susan Robertson & Roger Dale
2017 in Review

December 28, 2017 by Will Brehm

2017, Amy E. Stambach, Chinese Translations, Economics, Frances Vavru, French Translations, Globalization, Higher Education, Human Capital, Portuguese Translations, Will Brehm Privatisation, markets & neoliberalism

David Harvey
A Marxist critique of higher education

December 18, 2017 by Will Brehm

2017, Comparative Education, Development, Global Citizenship, Globalization, Higher Education Higher education & its contradictions, Internationalisation & student mobility

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 […]

December 11, 2017 by Will Brehm