Personal Philosophies of Education with Dr Kevin Smith

Emma & Tom Talk Teaching

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 the lines working from his shed to Emma and Dr Kev's respective houses while leaning on the inside of the door to stop his children from breaking in during the recording. Ah, lockdown... we don't miss you here in podcast land.

Happily, Dr Kev and his impressive collection of tattoos have joined us in person in our temporary podcast studio for this recording, in which we discuss how we can recognise, develop and articulate our personal philosophies of education. This helps us when we need to try and assimilate books by various edu-celebs, advice from colleagues and edicts from our bosses into a teaching practice that fits with our own epistemological, ontological, axiological and ethical position while also (quite importantly) doing the right thing by the kids.

Dr. Kev has lots of advice, theorists, book recommendations and stories to help us on our journey, and also has a good go at making the very long words in the paragraph above accessible to all of us. Dr Kev, we salute you!

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Recorded in studio B0.17 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 2nd August 2023