Another Education Is Possible

by Another Education Is Possible

Season 2

Education as De/Constructing Ableism (Susan Baglieri on teaching dis/ability and collective care)

Building on last week’s conversation regarding disability justice, Dr. Susan Baglieri joins Samantha Hoelhe and Bosco to discuss various aspects of disability education. We interrogate segregationist spaces and curricular guidelines, emphasize ways to create networks of collective access and caring, and highlight the importance of student autonomy and practices of resistance within and beyond spaces for people with disabilities.

S2 · E17

Feb 16, 2026

43:33

Education as Disability Justice (Rae Leeper on schooling and education as dis/ability)

Continuing our series of conceptual episode, Dr. Rae Leeper joins Sam and Jordan to talk about disability studies and education. The conversation explores disability justice, the ableism of schooling, and the awesome work of places like Castle Bridge School in New York City.

S2 · E16

Feb 12, 2026

27:16

Education as Fighting/Waiting (Roozbeh Shirazi on study and struggle in this moment)

Early on in this episode, Dr. Roozbeh Shirazi, an Iranian scholar living and working in the Twin Cities, tells listeners that he sits at the center of a lot of Venn Diagrams in this political moment. But this "emergency" episode is not a dispatch. Instead, Roozbeh invites listeners to imagine ways that education can be a reclamation and reconfiguration of time. He presents an idea called "pedagogies of meanwhile" that open space to think what else is possible in this moment and the next.

S2 · E15

Feb 9, 2026

48:28

Education as the Strongest Weapon (Thea Abu El-Haj on the Palestine Exception, Conditional Belonging, and Scholasticide)

In this episode, Dr. Thea Renda Abu El-Haj joins us to discuss her book Unsettled Belonging and her current work with Palestinian Nakba generation teachers. The discussion moves from how education invisibilizes U.S. empire to the ways that student encampments illuminate alternative spaces of scholarship and resistance. Dr. Abu El-Haj also explores the relentless censorship of those writing about Palestine and how people, especially those in Palestine, still do the work of fighting for a free Palestine.

S2 · E14

Feb 2, 2026

44:45

Education as Debt/Collective Power (Jason Wozniak on higher education and the Debt Collective)

In this episode, hosts Emmy and Jordan speak to Dr. Jason Wozniak about debt, debtor power, critical consciousness, and collective power more broadly. Jason shares strategies, experiences, and philosophies that help us imagine and fight for educational worlds beyond debt.

S2 · E13

Jan 26, 2026

53:15

Education as Resistance (Dr. Ahmed Kamal Junina on Scholasticide, Displacement, and Teaching Under Siege)

In this episode of Another Education Is Possible, hosts Y and Jordan speak with Dr. Ahmed Junina, a Palestinian academic reflecting on education amid displacement and the destruction of universities in Gaza. The conversation explores scholasticide, teaching as a political and ethical practice, and how education functions as a way of resistance any kind of erasure and also survival under conditions of war.

S2 · E12

Jan 19, 2026

50:52

Education as Refuge and Conflict (Diana Rodriguez Gomez on the complex role of education during armed conflict)

In this episode of Another Education Is Possible, hosts Jordan and Neli speak with Diana Rodríguez Gómez, Assistant Professor in the Educational Policy Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The conversation explores what education looks like in the context of armed conflict and examines the everyday rhythms of schooling in these challenging environments.

S2 · E11

Jan 12, 2026

52:43

Education as Class(room) Struggle (Mark Leier with guest host Ermioni Vlachidou)

Dr. Mark Leier, in many ways, grew up at Simon Fraser University. From visiting the campus as a child to later teaching there, he has consistently sought to introduce democratic pedagogical methods into education. In this episode, he joins guest host Ermioni Vlachidou to reflect on his journey through different stages of being an educator and discusses how both he and his classes have evolved over the years.

S2 · E10

Dec 22, 2025

56:09

Education as Unscripted Trans Pedagogies (Harper Keenan on queer and trans studies in education)

On this week's episode, Dr Harper Keenan joins co-hosts Emmy and Jordan to discuss trans pedagogies and non-prescriptive curriculums. While these terms might be on the newer side of things in educational discourses, queer and trans people are not. Their educational experiences tell a multitude of stories that have all too often been invisiblized in schools. While attending to the relentless forces of repression, Harper shows the possibilities of building classrooms and other educational spaces that affirm queer and trans students.

S2 · E9

Dec 15, 2025

37:57

Education as Landscapes of Sanctuary (Chandler Miranda on affirmative schooling with and for immigrant youth)

Sanctuary in school can be a way of thinking about how to protect immigrant students. As Dr. Chandler Miranda shows in this episode, making schools into sanctuaries requires shifts in the very foundations of schooling. This means reframing what knowledges are centered, how teachers think with their students (particularly marginalized students) from an asset-based perspective, and altering common sense elements of schooling like classroom layouts and assessment structures. Moreover, this shift rethinks the notion of sanctuary itself. Sanctuary is here not static and isolating but rather a mobile and active building of space that forges constellations of care that resist anti-immigrant forces. In this episode, Chandler takes us through the history of one such network of schools, the Internationals Network for Public schools. She also guides us through everyday life in one of their schools. Throughout, she explores how this school community contends with and continues its work in this heightened moment of repression.

S2 · E8

Dec 8, 2025

48:37

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