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EPISODE SUMMARY Global news in 2022 has been dominated by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which began in February of this year. In Episode 7 of Conversations4Citizenship, Dr. Alexandra Lewis (IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society) helps us to better understand this conflict from the perspective of education and identity, and she reflects on the role that education might play more broadly in fostering peace around the world. EPISODE NOTES In this seventh episode

EPISODE SUMMARY In the sixth episode of Conversations4Citizenship, Adam Lang interviews a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto, Maria Vamvalis who shares her research on how she uses the classroom as a space of possibilities to discuss the complex issues of racial injustice, social inequity, Canada’s colonial history and the relationship between the land, Indigenous communities, and the rest of society to address climate change. EPISODE NOTES In this episode, we speak t

EPISODE SUMMARY In response to the US Supreme Court's overturning of the constitutional right to abortion, the conversations4citizenship podcast had a conversation with Kourtney Woodbury who is a PhD candidate at Clemson University, U.S., as well as the practitioner of the American Civil Society, called ' Planned Parenthood'. In this special episode, Kourtney talks about the ripple effect of the Supreme Court's decision, relating to women's rights, especially, black and brown

Click the arrow (›) below to expand or collapse the transcript. TRANSCRIPT Adam Peter Lang: Hello, everybody, and welcome to Conversations4citizenship, our new innovative podcast. This is season 1, episode 4. I'm now going to pass it over to Rowena who's going to lead this session. Rowena Azada-Palacios: Thank you, Adam. Hi, everyone. This is Rowena Azada-Palacios. And I'll be leading today's conversation with our guest for this episode, who is Armi. Now Armi is a lawyer an

Click the arrow (›) below to expand or collapse the transcript. TRANSCRIPT Stella Mi-cheong Cheong (00:09) Hello, listeners. Welcome to Conversations4citizenship. I'm Stella Mi-cheong Cheong from UCL. Today, we are going to have a conversation about human rights and fundamental rights to Education with the human rights lawyer, SeungPyo Hong from Rosenberg, so please give a warm welcome to SeungPyo. Hello SeungPyo. So wonderful to have you with us here today. How are you? Se

Click the arrow (›) below to expand or collapse the transcript. TRANSCRIPT Adam Peter Lang (00:21): Hello, I'm Adam Peter Lang from UCL and a very warm welcome to Conversations4Citizenship. This is a new and innovative podcast. This is our second episode in our first season, and we're delighted to have with us today Professor Hugh Starkey from the University College London. So, I will now pass it over to my colleague, Dr. Stella Cheong. Stella Mi-Cheong Cheong (00:48): Th

Click the arrow (›) below to expand or collapse the transcript. TRANSCRIPT Adam Peter Lang (0:11) We are really delighted to have people on board today from a range of different backgrounds, and also an international dynamic to this new podcast. And really, it is about citizenship and human rights education in this post COVID world. As we know, we are in such geopolitical times with things changing. And what is taking place in Ukraine at the moment makes it so important that

EPISODE NOTES Hello and Welcome to the ‘conversations4citizenship’ podcast. Season one of conversations4citizenship premieres Tuesday, May 3rd! New episodes will be released every month. The first season is aiming to include diverse perspectives, with a unique balance between academic and practical perspectives that bridge the theory and practice of citizenship and human rights education in this ever-changing pandemic and emerging post-pandemic world. We will look at geopol