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This episode is the third of an Education International podcast series entitled ‘Pedagogies of Possibility,’ focusing on how the Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment (T3LFA) project has provided the space for educators to come together across its 7 project countries to invent innovative pedagogical practice that improves educational outcomes for all students.

The guest speakers in the third episode include Dalila Andrade Oliveria, professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Heleno Araújo, President of the Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores em Educação (CNTE), Ana Maria Clementino, learning circle facilitator and researcher at the Federal University of Minas Gerais and Elaine Amancio Ribeiro, teacher in Brasilia, Brazil.

In this episode, we will be discussing how teacher-led learning circles for formative assessment respond to Brazil’s distinct colonial history and are spaces for teachers to create critical pedagogies that allow for engagement in educational praxis, where teachers and students engage in a continual process of understanding and acting on the world in order to change it.

This episode is the second of a new Education International podcast series entitled ‘Pedagogies of Possibility,’ focusing on how the Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment (T3LFA) project has provided the space for educators to come together across its 7 project countries to invent innovative pedagogical practice that improves educational outcomes for all students.

The guest speakers in the second episode include Dr Robbert Smit, lecturer and researcher at the University of Teacher Education St Gallen, Monika, teacher and learning circle facilitator in Zürich, Switzerland, Selina, teacher of 6th grade (ages 12-13) teacher in St Gallen, Switzerland and Christin, teacher of 3rd and 4th grade (ages 9-11) in Lucerne, Switzerland.

In this episode, we will be discussing the importance of encouraging reflective practice amongst teachers and will touch on the ways in which educational systems can make space for this work through the incorporation of teacher-led learning circles into pre-existing continuous professional learning and development.

This episode is the first of a new Education International podcast series entitled ‘Pedagogies of Possibility,’ focusing on how the Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment (T3LFA) project has provided the space for educators to come together across its 7 project countries to invent innovative pedagogical practice that improves educational outcomes for all students. 

The guest speakers in the first episode include Dr Robbert Smit, lecturer and researcher at the University of Teacher Education St Gallen, Monika, teacher and learning circle facilitator in Zürich, Switzerland, Selina, teacher of 6th grade (ages 12-13) teacher in St Gallen, Switzerland and Christin, teacher of 3rd and 4th grade (ages 9-11) in Lucerne, Switzerland.  

In this episode, we discuss the importance of creatively using technology to invent formative assessment practices that meet the needs of each student. We then move on to explore how having dedicated time to develop and reflect on these promising formative assessment practices in learning circles can be understood as a form of pedagogical activism because it fosters pedagogical practice that counters a standardised curriculum that does not create space for the distinct needs of learners.

This is the third episode of our podcast series entitled: “Teasing the tech”. Our guest speaker, Neil Selwyn, is a professor at the Faculty of Education in Monash University, Australia, and a leading international researcher in the area of digital education. Martin Henry, research coordinator at Education International, will be the host for these series.

In this episode we will be looking at the impact of education techonologies on quality teaching and learning. Are the dominant forms of education techonologies improving the quality of education? Is edtech making education better, more inspiring, engaging, innovative? Listen to it now!

This is the second episode of a podcast series entitled: “Teasing the tech”. Our guest speaker, Neil Selwyn, is a professor at the Faculty of Education in Monash University, Australia, and a leading international researcher in the area of digital education. Martin Henry, research coordinator at Education International, will be the host for these series.
As technological for-profit giants, such as Google or Microsoft, are playing a major role in education, the transformation of the State and the public sector in the current context makes it important to give attention to changes in labour relations. This will be the focus of today’s episode.

This episode is the first of a podcast series entitled: “Teasing the tech”, focusing on things teachers should know about the impact of education technologies on labour relations, teaching and learning and education governance.

Our guest speaker, Neil Selwyn, is a Professor at the Faculty of Education in Monash University, Australia. Neil is recognised as a leading international researcher in the area of digital education. In this episode, we will be 'following the money', and looking, amongst other things, into the potential implications of the expanding role of education technologies for democratic accountability and education governance.