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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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2017, Comparative Education, Globalization, Sociology

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 […]

December 4, 2017 by Will Brehm

2017, Arabic Translations, Chinese Translations, Development, French Translations, Globalization, PISA, Vietnamese Translations Edtech & digital capitalism, Education policy & reform, Policy borrowing & transfer, Privatisation, markets & neoliberalism

Pasi Sahlberg
Should we copy Finland’s education system?

November 27, 2017 by Will Brehm

2017, Development, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Policy

Paul Reville
The Education Redesign Lab

Ever since the 1983 Nation at Risk report, America has seemingly gone through one educational reform after another. Have these reforms worked? My guest today, Paul Reville, thinks the reforms have correctly focused on the goals of excellence and equity but have not addressed the systemic problems impacting schools. Paul Reville is the founding director […]

November 20, 2017 by Will Brehm

2017, Privatization, Social Movements Assessment & accountability, Education policy & reform

Oren Pizmony-Levy
The Opt-Out Movement in the USA

November 13, 2017 by Will Brehm

2017, Arabic Translations, Bernhard Streitwieser, Comparative Education, Emergencies, French Translations, Refugees Refugee education, Refugees, migration & education in conflict

Sarah Dryden-Peterson
Portraying refugee education

November 6, 2017 by Will Brehm

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

Paul Tarc
Framing international education in global times

Today we look at the history and tensions of international education. My guest is Paul Tarc, an Associate professor at Western University. Paul sees certain tensions as inherent in the very idea of international education. As universities around the world embrace internationalism in an era of limited state funding, some wonder whether those idealists intentions […]

October 30, 2017 by Will Brehm

2017, Comparative Education, Daniel Friedrich, Decolonization, Development, Matthew Thomas, Teachers Comparative & international education as a field, Decolonising knowledge, Knowledge hierarchies, Race, colonialism & decolonisation

Shenila Khoja-Moolji
Decolonizing Teacher Training in Pakistan

This is the last episode in our four-part series leading up to the CIES 2017 Symposium. In the past three episodes, we have talked about decolonizing knowledge and innovating comparative and international education primarily from within the USA. But what does decolonization look like in other countries? Today we focus on Pakistan. My guest is […]

October 23, 2017 by Will Brehm

2017, Comparative Education, Nozomi Sakata

Peter Demerath
New Frontiers in Comparative Education

This episode of FreshEd is brought to you by the Comparative and International Education Society. The CIES 2017 Symposium aims to explore new frontiers in Comparative Education. Today, I speak with Peter Demerath about some of the exciting work being done in ethnographic research. We discuss many ideas from indigenous knowledge to grounded grit. Peter […]

October 16, 2017 by Will Brehm

2017, Comparative Education, Decolonization, Higher Education Decolonising knowledge, Higher education & its contradictions, Knowledge production, Race, colonialism & decolonisation

Patricia Parker
Decolonizing Graduate School Knowledge at UNC

Today we look inside an example of destabilizing knowledge hierarchies inside an American university. With me is Patricia Parker. Patricia helped set up the Graduate Certificate in Participatory Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The graduate certificate reveals the paradoxes of challenging dominant forms of knowledge inside one of the very sites, the […]

October 9, 2017 by Will Brehm

2017, Arathi Sriprakash, Comparative Education, Decolonization, Will Brehm Privatisation, markets & neoliberalism

Leigh Patel
Settler Colonialism and the Academy

Today we kick off a four-part series called FreshEd x Symposium. During the lead-up to the 2017 Symposium, four speakers will join FreshEd to whet your appetite for the conversations and debate that will take place in Washington DC. This year’s symposium asks us to consider about how comparative and international education phenomena are studied […]

October 2, 2017 by Will Brehm