ICE-Breaking, the Podcast

Frederike Jansen
ICE-Breaking, the Podcast Podcast

We're breaking the field of ICE, International and Comparative Education, by discussing visions, ideas and perspectives on education. Authentic stories and personal anecdotes from people all over the world.

  1. 14/02/2022

    12 Irene on Sociolinguistics, Heritage, and Identity

    What does it mean for you to speak your heritage language? To learn about your heritage culture? For some, this might be self-evident, but for an increasing amount of people this has become an important factor to maintain their identity abroad. Our contemporary world is characterised by human mobility globally. With migration, people bring along their own language while going abroad and the educational need to learn and develop a language or connect to native cultural, traditional and linguistic backgrounds increases. Our guest of today has been researching sociolinguistics,  the study of sociological aspects of language, and Heritage Language Education. Quite coincidentally, we find out that we are both working as HLE teachers in a Greek and a Dutch school, and we share our experiences.  Do you want to know more about Irene? Click here to be directed to her LinkedIn profile The book Irene was talking about during the quick-fire questions, is called Educated by Tara Westover I'm currently working on a transcript for this episode. Come back here to access it. Thank you so much for listening! Do you have ideas, suggestions or feedback? Reach out to me through ice.thepodcast@gmail.com, or click here to be directed to my LinkedIn profile. Looking for more information? Here are some references to books and articles that might be interesting for you: Brinton, D. M., Kagan, O., & Bauckus, S. (Eds.). (2017). Heritage language education: A new field emerging. Routledge.  Carreira, M., & Kagan, O. (2018). Heritage language education: A proposal for the next 50 years. Foreign Language Annals, 51(1), 152-168.  King, K. A. (2000). Language ideologies and heritage language education. International Journal of bilingual education and bilingualism, 3(3), 167-184.

    35 min
  2. 11/02/2022

    11 Isabel on Sense of Belonging, Weak Theory and Inclusion

    Do you look back at your secondary school memories with pleasure? Reminiscing the breaks with friends, fooling around in the classroom, strolling through the hallways in which everything and everyone was so familiar? Or was your experience less pleasant and did you not feel like you belonged? Belonged to the place, time, or community? Turns out that this sense of belonging is of importance to student's self-efficacy, academic motivation, engagement and performance. Isabel has been studying a sense of belonging within schools during the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, we will be talking about this, and more. Do you want to know more about Isabel? Click here to be directed to her LinkedIn profile. You can find Isabel's thesis here, or via the website of Stockholm University's Department of Education: Isabel Maria Machado Da Silva. School belonging during challenging times: A qualitative interview study of students transitioning to high school in the context of a global pandemic. September 2021. The books Isabel was talking about during the quick-fire questions, are called ''The Power of Now'' by Eckhart Tolle and "A court of thorns and roses'' by Sarah Maas . I'm currently working on a transcript for this episode. Come back here to access it. Thank you so much for listening! Do you have ideas, suggestions or feedback? Reach out to me through ice.thepodcast@gmail.com, or click here to be directed to my LinkedIn profile. Looking for more information on Weak Theory? This is a reference to the article Isabel mentioned: Wright, S. (2015). More-than-human, emergent belongings: A weak theory approach. Progress in Human Geography, 39(4), 391-411.

    36 min
  3. 15/12/2021

    10 Yolanda (Liu Zhe) on ''Tough Kids'', Competition, and China vs the West

    Welcome to yet another episode of the podcast! Today we are discussing a prominent factor within the field of ICE, namely the influence of cultural factors on education. We are all accustomed to our own educational system, which includes cultural influences shaping the ways of teaching, the daily schedule, and instruction material among other things. What if all of these things would change all of the sudden? We will be discussing a 360 degree change in the educational system from one day to another. From a western system (UK, Sweden) to the Chinese system. There are enormous differences between these educational traditions. China is scoring very high in international rankings, how is this achieved? What is so different than in Western countries? What does this do to the students? Yolanda will be talking about her personal experiences with the Chinese system and the phenomena we see in the documentary ''Are Our Kids Tough Enough'' (see below).  Do you want to know more about Yolanda? Click here to be directed to her LinkedIn profile. Our conversation was inspired by the BBC documentary, called ''Are Our Kids Tough Enough?'', which aired in 2015. The book Yolanda was talking about during the quick-fire questions, is called ''The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia'' by Michael Booth. I'm currently working on a transcript for this episode. Come back here to access it. Thank you so much for listening! Do you have ideas, suggestions or feedback? Reach out to me through ice.thepodcast@gmail.com, or click here to be directed to my LinkedIn profile.

    32 min

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