Best Decolonising Higher Education Podcasts (2024)

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Currere with Dr Kevin Smith 54:01

8h ago54:01

54:01

Strap in and prepare yourselves for another roller-coaster ride as regular guest Dr Kevin Smith from Cardiff University is back in the studio, and this time he's brought sweets! Kev is here to talk about Currere, an approach to considering curriculum which might be refreshing to those of us who work in the world of education. We'll leave it to Kev …

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Ethics in Classroom Research with Dr Lisa Reed 39:59

2h ago39:59

39:59

Conferences are a great opportunity to find new guests for the podcast, and last November's Scottish Educational Research Association (SERA) conference in Edinburgh didn't disappoint! Dr Lisa Reed from the University of Dundee joins us down the line to discuss how we can ensure we're being ethical when carrying out school-based research, especially…

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Equity and Diversity in the Classroom 44:02

3d ago44:02

44:02

For today’s episode, we’re bringing you a panel discussion about equity and diversity in the classroom, which was originally broadcast live on YouTube as part of our PGCE programme. Our panel of experts, Dean Pymble from Show Racism the Red Card, Marc Lewis from Ysgol Gyfun Cymraeg Plasmawr, and Mark Williams from Cardiff Met, joined Tom and our co…

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Teacher Recruitment with Dr Emily MacLeod 51:13

17d ago51:13

51:13

Those of you who listened to our epic Christmas special in December will remember Tom reading out a stream of tweets from Dr Emily MacLeod, who had just completed her doctorate about teacher recruitment. Well, now we have Dr Emily in person, speaking to us down the line, to delve deeper into the fascinating study she undertook which seeks to unders…

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Easter Holiday Special 2024! 1:12:21

1M ago1:12:21

1:12:21

Welcome to our not-very-light Easter holiday special! As ever, we bring you some random things to liven up your school holiday, and as usual for our Easter special we’ve ended up with something a bit less than fluffy… Nevertheless, we hope you find it interesting, useful or just a break from our usual service! Emma’s three things: Getting Started w…

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Making Powerful Connections in the Expressive Arts 52:15

2M ago52:15

52:15

It's always a special podcast episode when we get our student teachers into the studio, and today's discussion is no exception! Just after Christmas this year, we spent an exciting couple of weeks digging into the details of our expressive arts subject disciplines, and the potential for making powerful connections between them. Today, some of those…

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AI in Education with Karl Jones 34:15

3M ago34:15

34:15

Artifical Intelligence: is it going to revolutionise learning and the world of work? Or take our jobs and then kill us all? We've had our eye on doing an episode on AI for quite a while, but needed a guest who would give us an education angle and avoid the sensationalist stuff... step forward Karl Jones from Cardiff Met's School of Technologies! Ka…

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Trauma-Informed Practice with Dr Anne Hodgson 50:40

3M ago50:40

50:40

Today we welcome back our colleague Dr Anne Hodgson, who's here to talk to us about adverse childhood experiences and trauma-informed practice in schools. It's a wide ranging discussion with some hard-hitting facts about the challenges facing many of the children in our classrooms. As Anne says, being informed about the impact of these adverse fact…

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Decolonising the Languages Curriculum with Kerry Bevan 46:04

4M ago46:04

46:04

For this episode we welcome (and bow down to) our colleague Kerry Bevan! Programme leader for PGCE secondary languages, but also still a practising languages teacher in school, Kerry recently completed her thesis for the National MA Education (Wales) programme and stormed to a mark in the 90s for her research into perceptions of decolonising the la…

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Dialogue for Professional Development with Sarah Cason and Sioned Dafydd 56:07

4M ago56:07

56:07

We always like a good collaboration here on Cardiff Met's initial teacher education (ITE) programmes! Today we welcome to the studio our colleague Sioned Dafydd, and podcast veteran (from all the way back in season 1, no less) Sarah Cason from Palmerston Primary School. Since she joined us last time, Sarah has been upgraded to headteacher, and has …

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All About Dance with National Dance Company Wales 48:50

5M ago48:50

48:50

Happy new year! Despite Emma and Tom both being performing arts specialists, we've never had an episode on the podcast about dance. Having recently met and collaborated with National Dance Company Wales, we didn't want to miss an opportunity to invite them to our studio to talk all about this very special art form. Paul Kaynes and Maris Lyons from …

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Christmas Special 2023! 0:01

5M ago0:01

0:01

Merry Christmas one and all! Yet again we find ourselves between Christmas and New Year, hopefully enjoying a well-earned break. And for the sixth time we have entered the studio with a total of twelve (one for each day of Christmas) weird and wonderful gifts for our listeners. This year we have everything from poetry to scary sounds, from the joys…

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Mentoring Early Career Teachers with Lucy Donovan and Sharne Watkins 45:17

6M ago45:17

45:17

As an initial teacher education (ITE) institution, we spend a lot of our time thinking about mentoring student teachers, especially how to support our school-based colleagues who undertake this vital role. Our colleagues in the regional school improvement consortia think about it too, especially with their responsibility for mentoring newly-qualifi…

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Tax Facts with HMRC and Cameron Stewart 39:53

6M ago39:53

39:53

We break new ground for the podcast today by having two guests from His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC)! HMRC are the organisation who administer tax in the UK, and a little known fact about them is that they have volunteers who go into schools to deliver HMRC's very own programme of lessons all about tax - Tax Facts! We're very grateful to Am…

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Tameidiau o Ymchwil TAR 11 - Herio ac ymestyn dysgwyr MATh mewn ieithoedd gyda Martha Morse a Dr Gina Morgan 18:02

6M ago18:02

18:02

Mae Tameidiau o Ymchwil TAR yn cyflwyno ymchwil gorau myfyrwyr ar gyrsiau Addysg Gychwynnol i Athrawon gyda Phartneriaeth Caerdydd. Yn y bennod hon mae Martha Morse (TAR Uwchradd Cymraeg) yn trafod sut yr aeth ati i ddysgu mwy am strategaethau cefnogi ac ymestyn disgyblion Mwy Abl a Thalentog mewn Ieithoedd. Gallwch hefyd wrando ar Tameidiau o Ymch…

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Critical Criminology 29:13

6M ago29:13

29:13

By Dr Nicola Harding & Bethan Archer

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Financial Crime 32:46

6M ago32:46

32:46

By Dr Nicola Harding & Bethan Archer

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Clinical Reasoning in Teacher Education 38:53

7M ago38:53

38:53

We're back from half term with a few changes - Emma's got married and now has a shiny new surname, and we've moved in to our very swish podcast studio. That means you can watch us making the podcast by going to youtube.com/@talkteachingpod and also means that we owe some grateful thanks to our new friends at Cardiff Met's BSc and MSc Sports Broadca…

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PGCE Research Bites 22 - Challenging more able pupils using oracy with Bethany Maunders 18:09

7M ago18:09

18:09

For our final English-language research bite of this block, Tom is joined by PGCE Secondary RE student (and now NQT teaching four different subjects!) Bethany Maunders. For her second assignment, Bethany looked into how to challenge her more able pupils without just piling more and more work onto them. She settled on the idea of oracy as a skill to…

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S3 Ep3: State Collapse and the Shrinking of Civic Space under the Taliban: The Politics of Knowledge in Afghanistan 27:21

7M ago27:21

27:21

In the aftermath of the Republic’s collapse, a lack of shared understanding of policy priorities and effective civic interventions is impeding development of pathways toward stability for Afghanistan. The situation has since deteriorated across all scores of human security under the Taliban, with concurrent human rights, humanitarian, and political…

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October Half Term Special 2023! 59:27

7M ago59:27

59:27

Welcome to another of our specials where we let our hair down and have some fun with a bunch of random items culled from the furthest corners of the internet! From academic research to musings about email etiquette, we've got it all for you, and we hope you enjoy our chat. As ever, we'll be back in a fortnight with our normal service! You can find …

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Decolonialising Criminology 36:22

7M ago36:22

36:22

"...For criminology more specifically, its canon is as Western, white and male as any other social science discipline (Aas 2012; Bosworth and Hoyle 2011; Lee and Laidler 2013). The Westerncentrism of criminology is reflected in the fact that the most frequently cited criminologists are overwhelmingly white men from the USA and the UK (Cohn et al. 2…

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Rejecting the status quo.. 22:24

7M ago22:24

22:24

This week we seek to understand the origins of criminology - namely classicism and positivism - and their relevance (or lack of relevance) in today's contemporary criminological world.By Dr Nicola Harding & Bethan Archer

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Feminist Criminology 30:55

7M ago30:55

30:55

This week we will be looking at the contribution of Feminist Criminology. The basic premise of feminist criminology is that traditional criminological perspectives are Androcentric in nature. Androcentrism: Androcentrism is the practice, conscious or otherwise, of placing a masculine point of view at the center of one's worldview, culture, and hist…

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Tameidiau o Ymchwil TAR 10 - Strategaethau ‘Llais 21’ i annog cyfraniadau llafar yn y dosbarth uwchradd gyda Mari Price a Dr Gina Morgan 19:51

7M ago19:51

19:51

Mae Tameidiau o Ymchwil TAR yn cyflwyno ymchwil gorau myfyrwyr ar gyrsiau Addysg Gychwynnol i Athrawon gyda Phartneriaeth Caerdydd. Yn y bennod hon mae Mari Price (TAR Uwchradd Cymraeg) yn trafod sut yr aeth ati i ddysgu mwy am strategaethau cefnogi ac ymestyn sgiliau llafar disgyblion, gan ffocysu ar egwyddorion Llais 21 / Ein Llais ni yn y sector…

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Personal Philosophies of Education with Dr Kevin Smith 45:08

8M ago45:08

45:08

It's a welcome return to the podcast for Dr Kevin Smith from Cardiff University this week. Dr Kev has done sterling work on our live panel discussions, as well as previously joining us from the depths of coronavirus lockdown, when it emerged that Dr Kev was keeping busy formulating a curriculum of salsa (you had to be there) as Tom battled to keep …

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PGCE Research Bites 21 - Using Game-Based Learning in Primary Maths with Christy Scott 27:36

8M ago27:36

27:36

We welcome Christy Scott back to Research Bites, noting that she is only the second student teacher to make two appearances during her PGCE. Congratulations, Christy! For her second assignment, Christy was keen to find out what strategies she could put in place in her primary school classroom to try and foster a more positive, motivated attitude to…

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Why criminology? 31:24

8M ago31:24

31:24

In this weeks podcast we introduce ourselves and think about why criminology? and why it even matters to think about our relationship to the discipline to begin with.By Dr Nicola Harding & Bethan Archer

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S3 Ep2: From the Revolution of Dignity to Full-Scale War: Civic Resistance in Ukraine 31:42

8M ago31:42

31:42

The war in Ukraine is an ‘axial event’ in twenty-first century history, in which the agency of Ukrainians will have, one way or another, a tremendous impact on the future of global security. From Ukrainian soldiers and emergency rescue teams operating on the frontline to the extensive web of civilian volunteers across the country, civic resistance …

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