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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 have been clouded by hopes of increased revenue generation.

Click here to read the article discussed in the show.

Citation: Tarc, Paul, interview with Will Brehm, FreshEd, 93, podcast audio, October 30, 2017. https://www.freshedpodcast.com/paultarc/

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October 30, 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 university, responsible for reproducing colonial knowledge structures.

Patrcia Parker is chair of the Department of Communication at the University of North Carolina where she is also an associate professor of critical organizational communication studies and director of the Graduate Certificate in Participatory Research. She is currently finishing a book entitled, Living Ella Baker’s Legacy, which documents a multiyear participatory research study with African American girls in under-resourced communities leading social justice activist campaigns.

She will speak at the CIES Symposium later this month.

Citation: Parker, Patricia, interview with Will Brehm, FreshEd, 90, podcast audio, October 9, 2017. https://www.freshedpodcast.com/parker/

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October 9, 2017/by Will Brehm

2017, Comparative Education, Globalization Higher education & its contradictions, Knowledge production

John Furlong & Geoff Whitty
Knowledge traditions in the study of education

The FreshEd Podcast · FreshEd #83 - Knowledge Traditions In The Study Of Education (John Furlong & Geoff Whitty)

July 24, 2017/by Will Brehm

2017, Higher Education, Social Movements, Sociology, Unions Higher education & its contradictions, Marketisation & academic labour, Teacher labour & conditions, Teachers & the teaching profession

Jennifer Klein
Fighting for graduate student unions at Yale

The FreshEd Podcast · FreshEd #74 – Fighting for graduate student unions at Yale (Jennifer Klein)

May 22, 2017/by Will Brehm

2016, Comparative Education, Globalization, Higher Education Academic knowledge, podcasting & research methods, Higher education & its contradictions, Knowledge production, Research methodology

Robin Shields
Reading the Social Networks of Universities on Twitter

The FreshEd Podcast · FreshEd #26 - The social networks of universities (Robin Shields)

May 2, 2016/by Will Brehm

2016, Global Citizenship, Globalization, Higher Education Higher education & its contradictions, Internationalisation & student mobility

Bernhard Streitwieser & Anthony Ogden
Scholar-Practitioners in Higher Education

The FreshEd Podcast · FreshEd #21 - Bernhard Streitwieser & Anthony Ogden

March 28, 2016/by Will Brehm

2016, Globalization, Higher Education, Miguel Antonio Lim, Sociology Higher education & its contradictions, Internationalisation & student mobility

Rajani Naidoo
Competition in higher education

Competition within and across universities is so common that it may not seem like a big deal. Professors compete for tenure. Students compete to get into a best universities. And universities compete for rankings.

But where does this competition come from and what effects is it having on higher education systems?

My guest today is Prof. Rajani Naidoo, professor in higher education management at the University of Bath. She recently edited a special issue of the British Journal of the Sociology of Education looking at what she calls the “competition fetish” in higher education. The special issue, which comes out later this year, brings together articles that show the varieties of competition and the various ways actors channel, reproduce, internalize and secure competition logics. Some of the articles address the consequences of competition.

Prof. Naidoo presented some of the ideas discussed here in her Worldviews lecture.

Citation: Naidoo, Rajani, interview with Will Brehm, FreshEd, 20, podcast audio, July 21, 2016. https://www.freshedpodcast.com/rajaninaidoo/

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March 21, 2016/by Will Brehm