Another Education Is Possible

Another Education Is Possible

by Another Education Is Possible

Education Society & Culture

Season 2

Education as Peace (Monisha Bajaj on the conditions and work of peace education)

Continuing our series of short, conceptual episodes, Dr. Monisha Bajaj joins the podcast to describe what peace education looks like, its limits, and how educators might engage in it.

Education as Decolonial Subversion (Noah Romero on indigenous pedagogies and unschooling)

Dr. Noah Romero thinks with skaters, punk rockers, and unschoolers. Guided by indigenous knowledges, he conjures collective forms of decolonial education. Dr. Romero joins co-hosts Jordan and Sam to discuss what these diverse topics have to do with one another and how decolonial anarchist pedagogies might offer possibilities for public school teachers.

Education as Palestinian Histories and Futures (Dr. Shatara and Dr. Saleh on solidarity with and for Palestine and Palestinians)

Within radical education, solidarity is a popular topic. What does it actually look like? How is it taught, learned, studied, and practiced? In this episode, hosts Jordan and Y chat with Dr. Shatara and Dr. Saleh to explore educational solidarity with and for Palestine and Palestinians.

Education as Opportunity and Dissenting Threat (Susan Thomas on Indian Students in U.S. Universities)

In her recent book, Indebted Mobilities, Dr. Susan Thomas explores migrant students' material and affective encounters with debt in U.S. universities. She joins the podcast to explore the ways that higher education institutions specifically and empire more broadly aim to produce indebted migrant subjects. This wide ranging conversation also emphasizes how students negotiate and resist. That is, even as they are surveilled and disciplined, immigrant students forge educations as part of an internationalist form of solidarity.

Education as Embodied Generational History (Cath Goulding on Japanese American incarceration)

Dr. Cath Goulding has been a constant presence in our Education, Genocide, Liberation course. She joins the podcast to share intimate and haunting stories of education within the concentration camps in which the U.S. incarcerated more than 120,000 people. In this conversation with hosts "Bosco" and "Sarah," Cath weaves narratives of her mother being born in one of these camps with an urgent call to teach this history capaciously. The episode also engages Cath's experiences visiting these camps to explore the possibilities born of place-based education and public pedagogy.

Education as More-than-Anti-Racist (Abby Emerson on abolitionist education)

In our first episode in a series of short, conceptual explorations of education's role in the world, Dr. Abby Emerson joins us to discuss how education acts as a form of critical whiteness, how it can be anti-racist, and how abolition exceeds these framings to offer world-making possibilities.

Education as Silence and Reckoning (Dani Friedrich on the Argentinian dictatorship)

In the season two premiere, Dr. Dani Friedrich returns to the podcast to explore education in relation to collective traumatic past. Dani takes us through education leading up to and during the Argentinian dictatorship. He also details the curriculum shift that led to Argentinian schools teaching about the dictatorship. Moving outside of schools, we also discuss different sites of public pedagogy and collective memory. The episode explores the educational conditions that make dictatorships possible and education's limits in reckoning with it.

Season 2 Trailer

What is the force of education? Is is liberatory? Genocidal? Does it reproduce social conditions? Challenge them? How does education guide social movements? What role does education play in making and maintaining fascism? When is education a tool of colonialism? Why do anti-colonial struggles center education? On this season of Another Education Is Possible, we grapple with education's many roles as part of the graduate course Education, Genocide, Liberation.

Season 1

Episode 26 - Jordan Corson (with guest host Raz Segal)

For the season 1 finale, we're flipping the script. Our first guest, Raz Segal, returns to the podcast to play host and Jordan takes a turn as a guest.

Episode 25 - The Encampments

Finally, our episode about the student encampments! In this episode, J & A tell us about the paths that led them toward helping build and participate in an encampment at a small liberal arts college in the U.S.

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