Names you should know in education: Recent Episodes
Brendan DeCoster
A podcast focused on giving you the bare basic information about important people and institutions in education, particularly comparative and international education.
In this episode, I talk about someone who has received almost universal praise, even from those she criticized. See the links below for more information about her and her work, particularly the 4A framework for examining educational systems in a given context:
http://katarinatomasevski.com/images/Global_Report.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312103344_The_Right_to_Education_The_Work_of_Katarina_Tomasevski
https://ei-ie.org/en/detail/276/prof-katarina-tomasevski-the-first-ever-united-nations-special-rapporteur-on-the-right-to-education-died-october-4-2006-in-copenhagen-she-was-52
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/205895/pdf?casa_token=Fr2p_wuTWSYAAAAA:4EBcRSQ78zOSJiW5W9ff6loKzFNuXQwN2Nw5ZvUQ6KRnNEY1Vs3UQb7VUdxZZ7459EA8MeurWsc
This episode is a short one on a name that applies to all sorts of decisions in higher education in the US- Vincent Tinto. I'm just going over the most basic parts of his main idea on student retention, but for a better look at his work, see these links:
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2016/09/26/how-improve-student-persistence-and-completion-essay
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.133.2661&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Tinto, V. (2007). Research and practice of student retention: What next? Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 8(1),1-19.
Tinto, V. (1993). Leaving college: Rethinking the causes and cures of student attrition. (2nd ed.).Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
In this episode, I talk (very briefly!) about what UNESCO is and where it came from, as well as what it does on a shoestring budget. Please see the links below for more information about UNESCO and some of the other things I speak about here:
UNESCO website: https://en.unesco.org/about-us/introducing-unesco
A brief history from UNESCO's perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IAFdVp2RlE
On the Mongols: https://asiasociety.org/education/mongol-dynasty
UNICEF's budget: https://www.unicef.org/about/execboard/files/2018-2021_Integrated_Budget_EB_Informal_23_June_FINAL.pdf
On the trials and tribulations of UNESCO's budget: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1758-5899.12459
UNESCO Institute for Statistics education indicators: http://data.uis.unesco.org/
In this episode, I talk about John Hattie, who managed to take data on 80 million students from 50,000 studies and distill it down to a list of what works and what hurts in education, giving us a comprehensive and evidence-based list of best and worst practices in education- except, that is, if you pay attention to any of the criticism of his work.
Visible Learning: https://www.amazon.com/Visible-Learning-Synthesis-Meta-Analyses-Achievement/dp/0415476186
Steve Higgins & Adrian Simpson (2011) Visible Learning: A Synthesis of over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement. By John A.C. Hattie, British Journal of Educational Studies, 59:2, 197-201, DOI: 10.1080/00071005.2011.584660
Bergeron, P., & Rivard (trans.), L. (2017). HOW TO ENGAGE IN PSEUDOSCIENCE WITH REAL DATA: A CRITICISM OF JOHN HATTIE’S ARGUMENTS IN VISIBLE LEARNING FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A STATISTICIAN. McGill Journal of Education / Revue des sciences de l'éducation de McGill, 52(1). Retrieved from http://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/9475/7229
In this episode, I talk about one of the most popular educational theorists in education. Here are some of the readings that can help you understand Bourdieu:
Frederic Brochet 2001 Brain and Language77, 187–196 (2001)doi:10.1006/brln.2000.2428
https://www.amazon.com/Distinction-Routledge-Classics-Pierre-Bourdieu/dp/0415567882/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=bourdieu&qid=1566597251&s=books&sr=1-1
https://www.amazon.com/State-Nobility-Elite-Schools-Field/dp/0804733465/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=bourdieu+state+nobility&qid=1566597272&s=books&sr=1-1
http://arlt-lectures.com/bourdieu.pdf
https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Reason-Theory-Pierre-Bourdieu/dp/0804733635
https://www.amazon.com/Pierre-Bourdieu-Michael-James-Grenfell/dp/184465530X
For the podcast from Ron Funches, see here:
https://youtu.be/OeHyc7axYqM?t=1363
Thanks for checking this out! This first episode focuses on one of the earliest names in comparative education- Jan Amos Comenius, also know as Komensky. One of the first people to popularize the idea of using pictures in textbooks, teaching students in their L1 or mother tongue, and promoting education for all- all back in the early 1600s!
For more information, see the UNESCO special issue on Comenius here: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED079212.pdf
Make sure to take a look at Piaget's (yes, that Piaget) chapter on Comenius for an idea of just how important a figure Comenius was and is.