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We've reached the end of season 6 of the podcast, and thanks to all our listeners for coming along for the ride!Today we bring you a live recording of a panel discussion we put on for our PGCE Secondary student teachers. The panellists were the international curriculum consultant and bestselling author Lucy Crehan, former educational journalist Dr Gareth Evans who's now director of education policy at Yr Athrofa, UWTSD, and Matthew Maughan who's deputy headteacher at Bassaleg School in Newport. We asked them to tell our student teachers where they need to look and what they need to prioritise as they join the profession early in the implementation of the new Curriculum for Wales. But if you're listening from outside Wales, there are plenty of universal bits of advice to help everyone make their way as teachers!Thanks to all our panellists, and to the student teachers who asked the questions. We'll be back in the new academic year with season 7 - see you there!-----------------------------------------------------Recorded live in Lecture Theatre 1 on 20th March 2024 (panel discussion) and studio B2.15 on 24th April 2024 (Emma and Tom opening and closing sections) at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus.

Strap in and prepare yourselves for another roller-coaster ride as regular guest Dr Kevin Smith from Cardiff University is back in the studio, and this time he's brought sweets!Kev is here to talk about Currere, an approach to considering curriculum which might be refreshing to those of us who work in the world of education. We'll leave it to Kev to explain all about it, but you can also find a list of resources and links below. Dr Kev says:https://www.currereexchange.com/currere-exchange-journal.html (https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.currereexchange.com%2Fcurrere-exchange-journal.html&data=05%7C02%7Ctbreeze%40cardiffmet.ac.uk%7Ce48b18b7aadc430ea07508dc64fa5d7e%7C189dc61c769b40488b0f6de074bba26c%7C0%7C0%7C638496273690222899%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=QQMfTSq16jnhGyg82KUzXQTzV9jK6%2FjTkNobQLP52k8%3D&reserved=0) - this is the Currere Exchange Journal. It is a journal solely dedicated to Currere work and welcomes submissions from everyone teachers, academics, etc. They also offer a 'Currere exchange' event where people take part in, and learn about, the currere method. This year it is a virtual event (here are the details: https://www.currereexchange.com/registration.html (https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.currereexchange.com%2Fregistration.html&data=05%7C02%7Ctbreeze%40cardiffmet.ac.uk%7Ce48b18b7aadc430ea07508dc64fa5d7e%7C189dc61c769b40488b0f6de074bba26c%7C0%7C0%7C638496273690237418%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=aEqhdnyObjbXpzRqtZBZ4F%2BSDY3LuiuYirXxgpjm7xQ%3D&reserved=0)).  https://journal.jctonline.org/index.php/jct (https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjournal.jctonline.org%2Findex.php%2Fjct&data=05%7C02%7Ctbreeze%40cardiffmet.ac.uk%7Ce48b18b7aadc430ea07508dc64fa5d7e%7C189dc61c769b40488b0f6de074bba26c%7C0%7C0%7C638496273690248847%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=p%2FSO9ofvl4Rgq0oL52wckaiYS7ktBg%2B03vQS6BcjRJU%3D&reserved=0) - this is the link to the Journal of Curriculum Theorising. My friend/colleague Tom Poetter is currently the editor, but he is stepping down this year after a long, six-year stint. They have just released the older issues from the 70s/80s that had key publications in critical, reconceptualist approaches to curriculum, so definitely worth browsing! They also have an annual conference (http://www.jctonline.org/conference/ (https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jctonline.org%2Fconference%2F&data=05%7C02%7Ctbreeze%40cardiffmet.ac.uk%7Ce48b18b7aadc430ea07508dc64fa5d7e%7C189dc61c769b40488b0f6de074bba26c%7C0%7C0%7C638496273690259924%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=y%2B2PdOnJHKPur0Q%2BkIICU17aEBSkincVxib4fGWglME%3D&reserved=0) in October.). Bill Pinar, who developed the currere method and introduced 'reconceptualist' approaches to curriculum is one of the keynote speakers. Also, here is the URL to my blog that has a few posts related to 'currere' as well as other topics we've discussed in other episodes:

Conferences are a great opportunity to find new guests for the podcast, and last November's Scottish Educational Research Association (SERA) conference in Edinburgh didn't disappoint! Dr Lisa Reed from the University of Dundee joins us down the line to discuss how we can ensure we're being ethical when carrying out school-based research, especially when we're also working in that school as a teacher. With more and more teachers engaging in research and enquiry in their own classrooms and schools, it's increasingly important to take a step back and think carefully about how we navigate the blurred lines between our identities as researcher, teacher and colleague in these situations. Thanks to Dr Lisa for joining us, and anyone wanting to follow her on Twitter/X can find her at @phdindeed We'll be back with more in a fortnight!----------------------------------------------------Recorded in studio B2.15 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus (with remote guest) on 28th February 2024

For today’s episode, we’re bringing you a panel discussion about equity and diversity in the classroom, which was originally broadcast live on YouTube as part of our PGCE programme. Our panel of experts, Dean Pymble from Show Racism the Red Card, Marc Lewis from Ysgol Gyfun Cymraeg Plasmawr, and Mark Williams from Cardiff Met, joined Tom and our colleague Lisa Fenn in the studio to answer questions from our student teachers. We hope you find the discussion interesting and useful!Huge thanks to our panel and also to our colleagues from the MSc Sport Broadcast programmes here at Cardiff Met who helped us get on the air.———————————————————————Originally broadcast live from studio B2.15 at Cardiff Metropolitan University’s Cyncoed Campus on 19th January 2024. 

Those of you who listened to our epic Christmas special in December will remember Tom reading out a stream of tweets from Dr Emily MacLeod, who had just completed her doctorate about teacher recruitment. Well, now we have Dr Emily in person, speaking to us down the line, to delve deeper into the fascinating study she undertook which seeks to understand what motivates (and demotivates) people to become teachers. Using a massive treasure trove of longitudinal data from the ASPIRES project at the Institute of Education, Emily takes us through some of the really interesting things she’s found out, and what the implications might be for the ever more difficult task of recruiting new members of our wonderful profession. ————————————Recorded at Cardiff Metropolitan University’s Cyncoed Campus on 28th February 2024

Welcome to our not-very-light Easter holiday special! As ever, we bring you some random things to liven up your school holiday, and as usual for our Easter special we’ve ended up with something a bit less than fluffy…Nevertheless, we hope you find it interesting, useful or just a break from our usual service!Emma’s three things:* Getting Started with Key Concepts (https://cambridge-community.org.uk/professional-development/gswkey/index.html)* Taking a stand against the pedagogy of professional decline (https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/blogs/carnegie-education/2023/09/taking-a-stand-against-the-pedagogy-of-professional-decline/)* Things fell apart: the most mysterious deaths (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001v3dw)Tom’s three things:* Fighting Choirs (https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004300859/B9789004300859_007.xml)* Thousands of AI authors on the future of AI (https://aiimpacts.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Thousands_of_AI_authors_on_the_future_of_AI.pdf)* Zombie leadership: dead ideas that still walk among us (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1048984323000966)———————————————Recorded in studio D0.12 at Cardiff Metropolitan University’s Cyncoed Campus on 20th February 2024