History of Education Society UK Podcast

Professor Catherine Lee of Anglia Ruskin University in conversation with Syeda Ali about her research into Section of the Local Government Act which was passed in the UK in 1988. The law prohibited the 'promotion' of 'homosexuality' by local authorities in state schools and was the first anti gay-propaganda law. Lee reflects on her time as teacher during Section 28, and subsequently as a researcher and campaigner for LGBTQ+ teachers'.

To accompany the 50th Anniversary special edition of the History of Education Journal, we spoke to some of the contributors.  These podcasts focus on two of the themes in the journal:
Geographical historiographies of education and
Thematic intersections with the history of education.
Episode 4 - Intersections: Histories of Science and Technology
In this episode, Roland Wittje, Associate Professor in History of Science and Technology, IIT Madras illuminates his unique perspective on histories of science and technology and science education, developed through his own early training as a scientist and a passion for the value of material cultures in the history of education .  You can find out more in his article, Relocating education in the history of science and technology.
Themes include material cultures, science education, transnational education, textbooks.
Recorded in conversation with Michael Donnay in 2022 and produced by Syeda Ali, May 2023.

To accompany the 50th Anniversary special edition of the History of Education Journal, we spoke to some of the contributors.  These podcasts focus on two of the themes in the journal:
Geographical historiographies of education and
Thematic intersections with the history of education.
Episode 3 - Intersections: Histories of Medicine and Health
In this episode, Laura Newman, Postdoctoral research associate at Kings College, University of London, engages the listener with a fascinating tour of themes in the history of medicine and health and how these intersect, diverge and enrich possibilities for the history of education.  You can find out more in her article  Bodies of Knowledge: Historians, Health, and Education.
Themes include gender and sexuality, the hidden curriculum, practitioner historians, cheese and the postal service!
Recorded in conversation with Michael Donnay in 2022 and produced by Syeda Ali, May 2023.

To accompany the 50th Anniversary special edition of the History of Education Journal, we spoke to some of the contributors.  These podcasts focus on two of the themes in the journal:
Geographical historiographies of education and
Thematic intersections with the history of education.
Episode 2- Geography
In this episode, Johannes Westberg, Professor of Theory and History of Education at the University of Groningen, presents a lucid overview of  the state of the field in the Nordics, to introduce his article, Bright Nordic Lights: A revitalized interdisciplinary history of education in the massified higher education of the Nordics.
Themes include epistemologies, institutional settings, questions of Nordic identity, language, and  culture.  
Recorded in conversation with Michael Donnay in 2022 and produced by Syeda Ali, May 2023.

To accompany the 50th Anniversary special edition of the History of Education Journal, we spoke to some of the contributors.  These podcasts focus on two of the themes in the journal:
Geographical historiographies of education and
Thematic intersections with the history of education.
Episode 1 - Geography
In this episode, Desmond Ikenna Odugu, Associate Professor of Education at Lake Forest College in Illinois presents a comprehensive discussion of the context for his article, Education in Africa: A Critical Historiographic Overview.  
Themes include post-colonialism, oral history, schooling, epistemology, language, and  culture.  
Recorded in conversation with Michael Donnay in 2022 and produced by Syeda Ali, May 2023.

We’re back today with our second of three episodes looking at the performing arts in education. In this episode, we move forward to the nineteenth century to look at theatre in Jesuit schools in the United States. 

My guest this week, who will walk us through this history, is Michael Zampelli, SJ. Michael is a theatre director and historian at Fordham University, where he also directs the MA Philosophy and Society . His research interests include gender and sexuality in performance, antitheatricality, Jesuit performance history - his recent work has focused on the Jesuit performance tradition in the nineteenth and twentieth century United States. Alongside his research work, he has directed productions of several Jesuit-inspired pieces from the early modern period.

A transcript of the episode is available at the History of Education Society website, along with more information about our events, publications and conferences. You can follow the History of Education Society UK on Twitter and keep up-to-date with the latest research in The History of Education journal.

For our next few episodes, we’re going to turn to performance and look at how music, theatre and dance have intersected with education in the past. Our stop will be in early modern England, where Dr Amanda Eubanks Winkler will be our guide to performance in the schoolroom. 

Amanda is a historian of English music in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and twentieth centuries at Syracuse University. Her research interests include the relationship among musical, spiritual, and bodily disorder; performance and pedagogy; and the intersection of music and politics. Her most recent book, Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools, touches on a number of these topics. 

A transcript of the episode is available at the History of Education Society website, along with more information about our events, publications and conferences. You can follow the History of Education Society UK on Twitter and keep up-to-date with the latest research in The History of Education journal.

Sources

Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools by Amanda Eubanks Winkler  

Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sir William Davenant and the Duke’s Company by Amanda Eubanks Winkler and Richard Schoch

‘Opera at School: Mapping the Cultural Geography of Schoolgirl Performance’ by Amanda Eubanks Winkler, in Operatic Georgraphies: The Place of Opera and the Opera House, edited by Suzanne Aspden

We're excited to share a special guest episode today from our colleagues at HEQ&A, the official podcast of History of Education Quarterly. They have an outstanding archive of episodes, but given the interdisciplinary focus of this season, today I thought we’d share an interview they did with Sarah Lynch, where she discusses her most recent article, Marking Time: Making Community in Medieval Schools. Her work embraces methods from sociology and anthropology and is a really interesting look at the temporal frameworks of education.

Dr Sarah Lynch is a historian of medieval education in France, focusing on the socio-economic context of schools, pupils, and teachers, as well as the significance of such instruction within local cultures and communities. Her research revolves around elementary and grammar education in the medieval world and her current projects centre on educational legacies in late-medieval French wills, education in the global Middle Ages, and the medieval year.

A transcript of the episode is available at the History of Education Society website, along with more information about our events, publications and conferences. You can follow the History of Education Society UK on Twitter and keep up-to-date with the latest research in The History of Education journal.

I'm taking a few weeks off this summer to work on my dissertation, so instead of new episodes we'll be sharing some of our favorite interviews from the archive. We'll also have some guest episodes from other history of education podcasts.

In today's episode, Bethany White speaks to Dr. Tamson Pietsch and Dr. Joel Barnes about their work on the connections - and tensions - between the fields of the history of knowledge and the history of education. We discuss how the focus and methods of the history of knowledge can help us think through how knowledge is produced and legitimated; understand the role of institutions; and develop our perspectives on post-colonial and indigenous knowledges.

Tamson Pietsch is Associate Professor in Social and Political Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney and Director of the Australian Centre for Public History.  Joel Barnes is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland.

A transcript of the episode is available upon request at the History of Education Society website, along with more information about our events, publications and conferences. You can follow the History of Education Society UK on Twitter and keep up-to-date with the latest research in The History of Education journal.

Continuing our exploration of international student experiences, this episode we move to the other side of the world and examine the experience of overseas students in Australia. Beginning in 1948, Australia offered a number of different scholarship programmes targeted at students from Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. 

To guide us through the soup of acronyms and ‘schemes’ is Dr Anna Kent. Anna is a historian of education currently tutoring at Deakin University whose research focuses on international education policy in Australia. Her research looks at the intersections of international education and broader themes like race, decolonisation, and global movement. Prior to graduate school, Anna spent a decade working in policy and management roles in international education.

A transcript of the episode is available at the History of Education Society website, along with more information about our events, publications and conferences. You can follow the History of Education Society UK on Twitter and keep up-to-date with the latest research in The History of Education journal.

Sources 

International education is not just important for universities, it has shaped our nation by Anna Kent

What do Australians know about international education in Australia? by Anna Kent

Sponsored Students and the Rise of “the International” in Australian Communities by Anna Kent & David Lowe