A World Worth Living In

Dec 04 2024 28 ep. 24 mins 1
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The World Worth Living In Podcast explores the two main purposes of education: #1: That education can help us to live well #2: That it can help us to create a world worth living in for everyone. This podcast is part of a global project where researchers are listening to different groups of people, discovering how to live better and how to create a world more worth living in, through education. The podcast is based on the free book, Living Well in a World Worth Living in for All. This project is a collaboration between Monash University and the Pedagogy, Education and Praxis Network.

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S2 Episode 8: Living well in the aftermath of separation and divorce: The role of teachers, schools and early childhood services

Dec 04 2024 22 mins  
In this episode, interviewer Kristin Reimer discusses what living well looks like for some families experiencing separation and divorce with Linda Mahony. The conversation explores how educators want to do the right thing by families experiencing separation and divorce but don’t always know what that is. Linda discusses a project in which she asked the families themselves to find

S2 Episode 7: A schooled life: Dissonant glimmers for interruption amidst the tightly constrained practice of schooling

Nov 20 2024 34 mins  
In this episode, interviewer Kristin Reimer talks about education that interrupts schooling with Nicole Brunker. The conversation explores the difference Nikki sees between schooling and education; how little space there is - for both students and teachers - in the current tightly constrained system; and how crucial it is to encourage moments of interruption, where we consider not

S2 Episode 6: Exploring 'living well' through children's play

Nov 06 2024 34 mins  
In this episode, interviewer Kristin Reimer talks about the importance of play in education with Mervi Kaukko and Jane Wilkinson. Based on a chapter written with their colleague Nick Haswell, Jane and Mervi discuss a really interesting project that they embarked on to explore how children engage in free play at school in Australia and Finland and consider the insights this play mig

S2 Episode 5: Democratic practices with and for our youngest citizens: Early childhood education, agency and the education complex

Oct 23 2024 18 mins  
In this episode, interviewer Sally Windsor speaks with Andi Salamon and Mandy Cooke who, along with Leanne Gibbs, contributed a chapter on how individual and collective agency can optimise pedagogy with and for very young children to live well and help create a world worth living in. They discuss some of the projects that the chapter focuses on - all exploring democratic, agentic e

S2 Episode 4: Potential of students' voices to contribute to education for a future world worth living in

Oct 08 2024 25 mins  
In this episode, interviewer Kristin Reimer talks with Fiona Longmuir about ensuring real spaces for student voice. In her research, Fiona listens to the experiences of students for whom mainstream schooling has not worked and in some cases, has been damaging. Fiona talks about the bigger urgency behind the work - how young people are dealing with a future that does not necessarily

S2 Episode 3: Nurturing eco-thinking by leading and learning from the future as it emerges

Sep 26 2024 19 mins  
In this episode, interviewer Sally Windsor joins in conversation with Katina Thelin and Anette Forssten Seiser. They discuss their research with Swedish principals, where they explored how living well in a world worth living in for all can be realised within Swedish schools and pre-schools. Their work provides examples of current ongoing, as well as imagined, future practices. For

S2 Episode 2: Whose well-being? Deep ecological and posthuman perspectives on 'world worth living in'

Sep 10 2024 23 mins  
In this episode, interviewer Mervi Kaukko speaks with Rauno Huttunen and Hannu L. T. Heikkinen about the importance of seeing 'living well in a world worth living in for all' as crucial for the full community of life, not just for humans. They discuss praxis as planetary wisdom and position human well-being as being intertwined with planetary well-being, including the well

S2 Episode 1: Introduction, Drawing the future into the present

Aug 22 2024 22 mins  
Welcome to Season 2 of the World Worth Living In podcast! We are so glad you are joining us for another season of conversations about education's two main purposes: #1 to help us to live well and #2 to create a world worth living in for all. In this season we hear about global projects that are imagining - and bringing into being - transformed futures. All of the projects are

Season 2: Trailer

May 13 2024 2 mins  
A sneak peek at the amazing folks featured in Season 2 of the World Worth Living In podcast! Join us for another season of conversations about education's two main purposes: #1 to help us to live well and #2 to create a world worth living in for all.

S2 Episode 15: Conclusion: Forging future worlds worth living in for all

May 12 2024 25 mins  
In this episode - the last episode of the project, Kristin Reimer reflects on the project with co-editors, Stephen Kemmis, Mervi Kaukko and Sally Windsor. We reflect on the origins of the phrase - to live well in a world worth living in for all - and the power of it to focus us in on the critique and hope of education. We discuss how the world worth living in project has changed an