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I have an honours student looking for current, pre-service or former teachers in Australia to be research participants - please see below and share in your networks. Were you influenced to become a teacher because of a teacher who had a significant impact on you in your education? We want to hear from you! Hi everyone! My name is Madelyn Beller and I am currently undertaking my Honours at the University of Sydney in Secondary Education. My research project is aiming to investigate the experiences of teachers who made the decision to enter the profession because of a significant teacher in their own education. We are seeking (current, pre-service or former) secondary teachers who identify as having had a teacher who had a significant influence in their decision to pursue teaching themselves. Participation in the study involves a 30-45 minute online interview at a time of your discretion, whereby your experiences will be anonymously used in case study analysis. If you identify with the focus of study and would be interested in participating, please fill out the following (very) quick form: https://lnkd.in/gV3iCXqy Filling out this form does not confirm any involvement and participants are welcome to withdraw at any time. This research is being conducted for the purposes of completing an honours project for a final year Secondary Education student and has no other affiliations. Please read the attached Participation Information Statement for more information, or feel free to reach out if you have any questions. Thank you all for your time!

My new open access paper with lead author Dr Phil Nicholson published in Journal of Education Policy documents the role of local government as translators for and brokers of school partnerships during times of crisis. A timely reminder of their impact and contribution. Please share widely. https://lnkd.in/eMDFbfPk

This week in the world of FreshEd: 🎙 Will talked to Irving Epstein, emeritus professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, about the value of placing comparative and international education in conversation with film studies. Listen in to FreshEd 352: https://lnkd.in/g6ynbtC4 📧 The FreshEd Newsletter is up and running - this week, a tour through our Annual Report. Missed it? Subscribe here: http://eepurl.com/dcU10j ✍ A new month, a new Recommended List - Lisa Unangst talks #internationalization and #refugee education, and incites new ideas in the classroom with episodes from Jessica Oddy PhD. Centering Equity in Design for Social Impact, Jenny Lee, and Angela Little. Explore for yourself: https://lnkd.in/gZ6unfGh ✊ Last but not least, everyone in education is touched by the student protests that erupted in the USA - and across the globe - over the last week. Next Monday, tune in as Neal Hutchens returns to the podcast to discuss the first amendment, free speech, and campus protests. Get FreshEd 353 directly, wherever you listen to podcasts, by subscribing here: https://lnkd.in/gBKNdTA4

Education Under Attack in Gaza, With Nearly 90% of School Buildings Damaged or Destroyed A new Joint Statement by Inger Ashing, Chief Executive, Save the Children International, Yasmine Sherif, Executive Director, Education Cannot Wait and Jan Egeland, Secretary General, Norwegian Refugee Council - All schools in Gaza have been closed for 625,000 students for 6 months.  - Satellite images verify attacks on schools data and the damage caused - The ongoing conflict – the relentless bombardment, the decimation of vital services and the imminent famine has translated into a destruction of the fundamental tenets of childhood. - Education in emergencies is an essential part of the first phase of a quality child-focused humanitarian response. But in Gaza no place is safe, so scaling up the critical education in emergencies response is currently near impossible and not without risk. - An immediate and definitive ceasefire and full humanitarian access is urgently needed. - The international community should strongly condemn all attacks on schools and demand that all parties to the conflict respect IHL, commit no further grave violations against children and ensure that there is accountability for those committed to date. Read the full statement below: https://lnkd.in/eNGhSyDr

I am pleased to announce that my new book, Education, Affect, and Film: Visual Imaginings and Global Explorations Through a Comparative Lens is available for pre-publication purchase through Amazon.com or Bloomsbury.com. The book will officially be released on June 13th and in this work, I use principles of Affect Theory to compare the fields of Comparative and International Education and Film Study. In the second part of the book, I examine twelve internationally acclaimed films and compare their perspectives with that of the CIE and social science literature regarding education and social class, racism, colonialism and indigeneity, and climate justice. I have additionally been privileged to have been interviewed by Will Brehm about the book for his internationally acclaimed podcast, Freshed, which can be accessed at: freshedpodcast.com/epstein.

This afternoon UCL Action for Palestine had a rally at the Main Quad to call for UCL to acknowledge its complicity in the imperialist genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, and take accountability by divesting from any military or investment activity in this genocide. UCL Provost Dr Michael Spence was said to publicly address the group's concerns and requests. Yet the institution didn't let anyone without UCL ID into the "open" campus, setting up a literal, material gatekeep preventing wider participation. Academic gatekeeping, which is in no way a distant practice, now becomes reinforced to secure the institution's interests, repress critical voices and obscure its complicity in the oppression of marginalised groups while profiting off from their knowledge and struggles. UCL's "disruptive thinking" does "disrupt", just not in the way it claims to do. Grateful as I am - an alumnus from the IOE - UCL's Faculty of Education and Society who had the chance to learn from and connect with so many great, empathetic, critical teachers and friends, I feel the urgency to speak back to the institution and hold it accountable. Palestine is a feminist, race, colonial, class, imperialist issue - what's the point of studying all these theories while not trying to live them as praxis, or worse, while refusing to call out the injustices happening right now in Gaza, across many universities' encampments, or at UCL's gate today? I was so privileged to be able to get the Chevening Awards to attend the IOE, learning feminist theories, intersectionality, decoloniality, critical pedagogies, development theories, critical inquiries... from Dr Hanna Retallack, @Helen Longlands, Laila Kadiwal, Lorena Sanchez Tyson, PhD, Will Brehm, Jessica Ringrose, Dr Emma Jones, claudia lapping, Elaine Unterhalter, @Jenny Parkes, @Chris Yates... also learned from great friends such as Ivy Cheung Zeinab Elbatoul Sbaiti Rabikah Yahya Tania Algebori Suha A. Laura Verónica Muñoz Michelle, Kai Yee Wong (and sooo many others). We connected virtually, in the classroom, on the picket line or on marches to share some hopes for more equality and justice. I do hope that by speaking up and learning relentlessly together, we can refuse to be complicit in institutional oppression and injustices, staying with the trouble, committing to the academic ethical position and praxis.