How to Humanise Education with Dr. Bronwyn Wood

How can education create active citizens? Does digitality impact education? Are single-sex schools bad? What is liberation theology? Mika and Matthew chat with Dr. Bronwyn Wood, a senior lecturer in the School of Education at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington. In this conversation, Bronwyn highlights hope in the role of cooperation and relationship between adults and young people to create civic engagement and real social change.

Show notes

Praxis: https://www.freire.org/concepts-used-by-paulo-freire Hart’s ladder: https://organizingengagement.org/models/ladder-of-childrens-participation/ Radical collegiality: Affirming teaching as an inclusive professional practice (Michael Feilding, 1999) PISA 2018 Worldwide Ranking - average score of mathematics, science and reading McAuley High School Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire (1968) Theodor W. Adorno (1903–69) Max Horkheimer (1895–73) ‘A weekend with Paulo Freire’, Salient (29 May 1974) ‘How Robin White learned to make prints’, New Zealand Fine Prints blog (May 2012) Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion, by Fr Gregory Boyle (2009) Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention- and How to Think Deeply Again, Johann Hari (2022) Nga Uruora/the Groves of Life: Ecology and History in a New Zealand Landscape, by Geoff Park (1995) Te Whāriki – Early Childhood Curriculum

Many thanks to everyone makes this podcast possible. Music by Toby Sussex. Logo by Adam De Jong. Production, editing, and show notes by Matthew Bartlett and Rayne Aldridge. This podcast is associated with Chaplaincy VUW.

This podcast is hosted by Rayne Aldridge, Rachel Tovey, Mika Hervel, and Matthew Bartlett. We are students (and a chaplain) at Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington. We interview academics, activists, pastors, and public figures about their fields of knowledge and what brings them hope.

Thanks to everyone who has made the podcast possible. Music: Toby Sussex. Logo: Adam De Jong. Production, editing, and show notes: Matthew Bartlett and Rayne Aldridge. This podcast is associated with the Christian chaplaincy at VUW

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