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26.01.2025
1 Stunde 10 Minuten
As Manda Scott's BRILLIANT podcast suggests, "another world is
possible… we have the power of gods to destroy our home, but we
also have the chance to become something we cannot yet imagine."
This week's special episode is a joint podcast with Manda on her
Accidental Gods podcast (https://accidentalgods.life/).
In all of her shamanic work, bestselling novel-writing,
podcasting and convening, Manda Scott is gathering people around
the vital question, how we can create a future that we would be
proud to leave to the generations to come?
Manda's new novel 'Any Human Power' is out on May 30th:
https://linktr.ee/anyhumanpower
And you can find more of Manda's extensive and amazing work on
her website here: https://mandascott.co.uk/
Other things we talk about in this conversation:
Nick Mulvey's performance at
COP26: https://youtu.be/x-GBl6DeA50?si=8RgDivREYKZTa9I1&t=1273 Beautiful!
The Substack Manda reads from:
https://theconcernedbird.substack.com/p/elon-musks-and-xs-role-in-2024-election
Systems Transformation Pathway at UWC Atlantic
College: https://www.uwcatlantic.org/learning/academic/systems-transformation-pathway
https://sites.google.com/uwcatlantic.org/transformingsystems/centre?authuser=0
Green School Bali: https://www.greenschool.org/
School of Humanity: https://sofhumanity.com/
Festival of Hope: https://ibo.org/festival-of-hope/ Social
Links
LinkedIn: @mandascottauthor -
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mandascottauthor/
BlueSky
- https://bsky.app/profile/mandascott.bsky.socialandMastodon
- https://mastodon.scot/@Eceni Or you can write to Manda
here: https://mandascott.co.uk/contact/
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19.01.2025
40 Minuten
This week it was a huge pleasure to be able to welcome Carl Mika,
Professor of Māori and Indigenous Philosophies from Aotearoa, the
country now known as New Zealand. As you can probably guess from
the title of this episode, this conversation with Carl went
pretty deep pretty quickly! That's because underlying the most
apparently basic concepts like learning or logic that people use
all the time are some pretty fundamental assumptions about the
way the world is. And they're certainly not universal to all
humans. So what does educating our young people in how to read
their worlds mean in this case?
Carl Mika is from the Tuhourangi iwi and is Professor of Māori
and Indigenous Philosophies, and Head of School of Aotahi: School
of Māori and Indigenous Studies, University of Canterbury. His
published work includes Indigenous Education and the Metaphysics
of Presence was published in 2017, Routledge), along with many
articles and chapters, on the issues of colonisation and
reductionism; Māori concepts of nothingness and darkness in
response to an Enlightenment focus on clarity; mātauranga Māori
and science. Carl teaches and researches in educational
philosophy and mātauranga Māori, the law, and global studies, as
well as aspects of Western philosophy.
In 2024, Carl was awarded the University of Canterbury Research
Medal. Also In 2024, he was recipient of the University of
Canterbury Faculty of Arts Kairangahau Māori Award for research
in Māori philosophies (both traditional and contemporary) and
Māori methodologies. He is also a Fellow of the Philosophy of
Education Society of Australasia (PESA). You can find further
links to Carl's work here:
https://profiles.canterbury.ac.nz/Carl-Te-Hira-Lewis-Mika
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12.01.2025
51 Minuten
This episode is a fantastic conversation with 2 brilliant women
who have been whipping up a storm this week with the release of
their amazing new book The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn
Better, Feel Better, and Live Better! Dr Rebecca Winthrop and
Jenny Anderson chat with me about the disengagement crisis facing
our young people and what we, as parents and educators, can do
about it.
Jenny Anderson is an author and an award-winning journalist who
spent over a decade at The New York Times before pioneering
coverage on the science of learning at Quartz. She contributes to
TIME, The New York Times and The Atlantic, among other
publications.
Rebecca Winthrop is a leading global authority on education. She
is the director of the Center for Universal Education at
Brookings, where she conducts studies on how to better support
children’s learning, and is an adjunct professor at Georgetown
University.
Social Links
https://www.thedisengagedteen.com/
Instagram: @jennyandersonwrites -
https://www.instagram.com/jennyandersonwrites/ ;
@drrebeccawinthrop - https://www.instagram.com/drrebeccawinthrop/
LinkedIn: @jennyandersonnyt -
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennyandersonnyt/ ; @rebecca-winthrop
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-winthrop-b36b0617/
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05.01.2025
47 Minuten
It's a strange thing that the concept of school has become almost
universal over the last few hundred years. If you ask anyone
almost anywhere in the world, they will be able to describe
something that looks roughly like a shared concept of school. But
maybe it didn't have to be this way. Maybe it could have been
different. This week the amazing professor of anthropology Susan
Blum Joins me to talk about 'schoolishness' which is her latest
fantastic book, based on decades of research into the cultural
development of the dominant ideas around formal institutional
education.
Susan D. Blum is a cultural, linguistic, and psychological
anthropologist specializing in the study of China and the United
States. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and also has two MAs—in Anthropology and
in Chinese Language and Literature (both from Michigan)--and a BA
in Human Language from Stanford University.
Professor Blum is the author and editor of 10 books and dozens of
articles, as well as public-facing writing. Her latest
book, Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for
Authentic, Joyful Learning (Cornell, 2024), is the third in
a trilogy about higher education. The other two books are "I
Love Learning; I Hate School": An Anthropology of
College (Cornell, 2016) and My Word! Plagiarism and
College Culture (Cornell, 2009). She also edited a widely
read book calling into question the centrality and necessity of
grading, Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning
(and What to Do Instead) (West Virginia, 2020).
She has taught at Oklahoma State University, The University of
Colorado Denver, The University of Denver, The University of
Pennsylvania, and The University of Notre Dame, where she is a
Professor in the Department of Anthropology. At Notre Dame, she
has served as Director of the Center for Asian Studies and Chair
of the Department of Anthropology. She is a Fellow of the Helen
Kellogg Institute for International Studies, a Fellow in the
Institute for Educational Initiatives, a Fellow of the Liu
Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, a Fellow of the Eck
Institute for Global Health, and a Fellow of the Shaw Center for
Children and Families.
She received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
for her book, Lies That Bind: Chinese Truth, Other Truths (2007),
and has received the Delta Kappa Gamma Educator's Award, 2010,
for her book My Word! Plagiarism and College
Culture (2009), which was translated into Chinese in 2011.
Blum has also received an Excellence in Teaching award from The
University of Colorado Denver (2000) and the Reverend Edmund P.
Joyce, CSC, Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching from
The University of Notre Dame (2010).
Social Links
LinkedIn: @susan-blum -
https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-blum-aba01212/
Instagram: @susandblum - https://www.instagram.com/susandblum/
Threads: @susandblum - https://www.threads.net/@susandblum
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29.12.2024
57 Minuten
We're ending this final epsiode of 2024 in a beautiful place with
Karima Kadaoui sharing in some co-reflections with me about the
trustful and humanising society that she is seeing emerge in
Morocco and beyond. It became really clear to me during this
conversation with Karima, that the way that we talk about the
work we are doing is a really important choice. This is because
it sets up frames and expectations that really affect how we do
the work. So for that reason, I'm not going to say much about the
incredible work that is happening across communities, schools and
government ministries across Morocco through the Tamkeen process
as Karima describes it much more beautifully than I ever could.
Karima co-founded Tamkeen Community Foundation for Human
Development in Morocco in 2009 and holds the responsibility of
its executive presidency. She refers to her organisation as a
facilitating-dissolving structure living, with all its
partners-in-flourishing, the answer to the question "how can our
schools, communities, organisations, societal systems and
societies be the expression and manifestation of our humanity;
the shared essence that defines us and connects us to each other,
to our natural world and the whole beyond our conscious grasp?
Karima's Tamkeen process weaved and was woven with the threads of
her 25 years experience working in private, public and social
sectors. She worked with top tier companies in a big 5 management
consultancy and as the associate senior consultant of a
territorial development consultancy she co-founded. In the
Moroccan government, she worked on public policy and governance
in quality of the advisor to the Minister of Employment,
Vocational Training and Housing. Her experiences in NPOs
working with women suffering infra-human conditions in industries
and with a community in a major shanty town have profoundly
marked her.
Karima is a full member of the Club of Rome. She is also a board
member and advisor to Imal Initiative for Climate and Development
the first independent non-profit North African climate think
tank, as well to Africa Voices Dialogue "a space where the voices
of Africa’s educators and learners are seen, heard and loved".
As we discuss in the conversation, the paper written by Karima
and Louis Klein is entitled ‘Realising metamorphic transformation
in the mirror of Tamkeen: Growing a shared understanding from
co‐reflected lived experiences’. It can be found in the journal,
Systems Research and Behavioral Science 41(5):738-749, August
2024 and is linked here.
Karima also mentions the poem, Sept saisis par l’hiver’, by René
Char:
Extract: ‘Ma Feuille Vineuse: Les mots qui vont surgir savent de
nous ce que nous ignorons d’eux. Un moment nous serons l’équipage
de cette flotte composée d’unités rétives, et le temps d’un
grain, son amiral. Puis le large la reprendra, nous laissant à
nos torrents limoneux et à nos barbelés givrés.’ From Chants de
la Balandrane, Gallimard, 1977, p. 16. -
https://www.gallimard.fr/catalogue/chants-de-la-balandrane/9782070298303
Website: https://tamkeencommunity.org/
LinkedIn: @karima-kadaoui -
https://www.linkedin.com/in/karima-kadaoui/
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We are stuck in an old paradigm, with institutional structures that
were built for a world that no longer exists. Within
education, passionate entrepreneurs & committed citizens are no
longer waiting for these broken formal institutions to be reformed.
All over the world, they're designing & building their own
local responses with relationships at their core. These are the
education ecosystems that our young people need and out of which
new institutions will emerge. This podcast is an inquiry into
these fundamental changes and an invitation to join the movement to
help drive positive change.
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