Asian Education Podcast
by Kyushu University UNESCO Chair on Education for Peace, Social Justice and Global Citizenship
The Asian Education Podcast is a forum for discussing research on education and related social issues in Asian contexts. It also seeks to provide Asian perspectives on global debates over education policy and practice. It also seeks to provide Asian perspectives on global debates over education policy and practice.Hosted by Edward Vickers, Yoko Mochizuki, and Gairanlu Pamei, the Asian Education Podcast is produced by the UNESCO Chair on Education for Peace, Social Justice and Global Citizenship at Kyushu University, Japan, in association with the Comparative Education Society of Asia.
Episodes
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Series 6, Episode 6: Quantitative Ethnography and Educational Research
Quantitative ethnography and educational research In this episode, concluding our mini-series introducing special issues of the Journal of International Cooperation in Education, Edward Vickers talks to Belle Dang, Andy Nguyen and Eric Hamilton about their work on quantitative ethnography. They...
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Series 6, Episode 5: The Learning Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Learning Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa This episode continues our mini-series showcasing recent special issues of the Journal of International Cooperation in Education. This time, the focus falls on a 2025 special issue, "Addressing the 'learning crisis' in sub-Saharan Africa: Critical factors...
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Series 3, Episode 4: The Politics of Post-Crsis Challenges in Education
JICE special issue on 'The Politics of Post-Crisis Challenges in Education' Spotlight on Education and Youth Activism in the Philippines Continuing our mini-series introducing the Journal of International Cooperation in Education , this episode focuses on a recent special issue on the theme of…
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Series 6, Episode 4: The Politics of Post-Crsis Challenges in Education
JICE special issue on 'The Politics of Post-Crisis Challenges in Education' Spotlight on Education and Youth Activism in the Philippines Continuing our mini-series introducing the Journal of International Cooperation in Education , this episode focuses on a recent special issue on the theme of…
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Series 6, Episode 3: Introducing the Journal of International Cooperation in Education (JICE)
Introducing the Journal of International Cooperation in Education In this episode, the first of a 'mini-series' on the Journal of International Cooperation in Education (JICE), Edward Vickers talks to Tatsuya Kusakabe and Sakata Nozomi, the journal's editors. In three subsequent episodes, Ed will...
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Series 6, Episode 2: Catherine Aymé on teaching French in Central Asia
Series 6, Episode 2 Catherine Aymé on teaching French in Central Asia In this episode of the Asian Education Podcast, we are joined by Catherine Aymé, who is a teacher and researcher at Sorbonne University Paris Nord in Information and Communication Science. Her doctoral research explores some of...
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Series 6, Episode 1
Introducing the Little Red Podcast. Sample episode: Education Nation - China's Exam Fetish China’s college exam, the gaokao, is fetishized as the ultimate test, yet a lesser-known story is how it entrenches regional education discrimination. Its role at social engineering is also clear, with AI...
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Introducing 'Education and Development in Contemporary Asia' (bonus series)
Introduction to Education and Development in Contemporary Asia (bonus series): Access to the whole series is password-protected. For details on terms of access, write to: [email protected] In a new initiative, the Asian Education Podcast is releasing an MA module on 'Education and Development...
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Bonus Series: Education and Development in Contemporary Asia
NOTE: This is a bonus series designed for teaching postgraduate courses on Education and Development in Contemporary Asia. This episode (comprising previously published episodes of the Asian Education Podcast) is fully accessible. For details on terms of access to the whole series write to:...
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Bonus Series: Education and Development in Contemporary Asia
NOTE: This is a bonus series designed for teaching postgraduate courses on Education and Development in Contemporary Asia. This episode (comprising previously published episodes of the Asian Education Podcast) is fully accessible. For details on terms of access to the whole series write to:...
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Asian Education on Film, Episode 14
Asian (Re)Education on Film, Episode 14 The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci, UK/Italy/France/China, 1987) For the last episode in this series, I’ll be discussing The Last Emperor, which was actually the first feature film about China that I ever saw, shortly after it came out in 1987. Unlike…
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Asian Education on Film, Episode 13
Asian Education on Film, Episode 13 Red Beard (赤ひげ) (Kurosawa Akira / 黒澤明, Japan, 1965) From a contemporary Japanese primary school, the setting for the film Monster, in this episode we move back in time to mid-19th century Japan and a very different educational context. Red Beard, by the great...
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Asian Education on Film, Episode 12
Asian Education on Film, Episode Twelve Monster (怪物) (Kore-eda Hirokazu, Japan, 2023) The Taiwanese film I discussed last time, After School, offered a slightly corny treatment of themes of adolescent sexuality, transgression of gender norms, and so-called ‘boys love’. The 2023 Japanese film,...
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Asian Education on Film, Episode 11
Asian Education on Film, Episode Eleven After School (成功補習班) (Blue Lan / Lan Cheng-lung, Taiwan, 2023) The supplementary tutoring industry, or ‘cram schooling’, is a phenomenon we’ve already touched on in Episode 8 on the Indian film Aarakshan. There, the cram school chain the ‘KK Institute’…
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Asian Education on Film, Episode 10
Asian Education on Film, Episode Ten Lunana - A Yak in the Classroom (Pawo Choyning Dorji, Bhutan, 2019) From bustling New York, the setting of the film I discussed last time, English Vinglish, we move to the Himalayas for a story about what is portrayed as ‘the most remote school in the world’....
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Asian Education on Film, Episode 9
Asian Education on Film - Episode 9 English Vinglish, Gauri Shinde (India, 2012) The previous two films in this series dealt with educational inequality in India (Aarakshan) and the (sporting) legacy of British imperialism on the subcontinent (Lagaan). In different ways, both also highlighted...
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Asian Education on Film, Episode 8
Asian Education on Film, Episode Eight Aarakshan: India vs. India (Prakash Jha, India, 2011) India’s immense diversity was given a positive spin (no pun intended) in the cricketing film we looked at last time, Lagaan. But that romantic fantasy only scratched the surface of the explosively...
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Asian Education on Film, Episode 7
Asian Education on Film, Episode Seven Lagaan - Once Upon a Time in India (Ashutosh Gowariker, India, 2001) In the previous episode, I discussed the baseball film Kano, based on the real story of a 1930s Taiwanese high school baseball team. That film reflects a fashionable nostalgia for Japanese...
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Asian Education on Film Episode 6
Kano (Umin Boya (馬志翔), Taiwan, 2014) (Released in Japan as 「KANO 1931海の向こうの甲子園」) Sport is an aspect of education that seldom receives the attention it deserves, whether from policymakers, academics, or many teachers and parents. However, historically team sports have played a vital role in the...
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Asian Education on Film, Episode 5
Asian Education on Film Episode Five Ilo Ilo (爹妈不在家) (Anthony Chen, Singapore, 2011) In the previous two episodes of this series, I’ve discussed films dealing with aspects of Asian women’s experience of education and its effect on broadening the opportunities available to women. In the previous...
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Asian Education on Film Episode 4
Asian Education on Film, Episode Four Song of the Exile (客途秋恨) (Ann Hui, Hong Kong / Taiwan, 1990) The story of Song of the Exile revolves around the relationship between a young Hong Kong-born woman, Hueyin (or Hiuyan in Cantonese) (曉恩), and her Japanese-born mother, Aiko. Their estrangement and...
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Asian Education on Film, Episode 3
Twenty-four Eyes (二十四の瞳) Kinoshita Keisuke (1954) This film tells the story of Ōishi Hisako, a young schoolteacher assigned to teach at a primary school on the island of Shodoshima, in Japan’s inland sea. Although it’s not far from the city of Hiroshima - perhaps close enough for the residents to...
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Asian Education on Film, Episode 2
**Asian Education on Film Episode Two - King of the Children (孩子王) (Chen Kaige, China, 1987) ** In this second episode of the series Asian Education on Film, Edward Vickers discusses Chen Kaige’s 1987 film King of the Children, based on a short novella of the same name by Ah Cheng. A classic of...
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Asian Education on Film, Episode 1
In this season of the Asian Education Podcast, Edward Vickers introduces films that deal with themes related to education or the experience of youth in Asian societies. In the first episode, Edward discusses Aparajito, by the famous Bengali director, Satyajit Ray (1921-1992), the central film in...
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An Interview with Andy Smart
In this episode of the Asian Education Podcast, we are joined by Andy Smart, who is an education and publishing consultant with a background in teaching and educational and children's publishing - with multinational publishers as well as his own children's publishing company. Since 2000 he has...
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Annette Bamberger on Israeli Higher Education and Asia-directed Internationalisation
In this episode, we travel to the western end of ‘Asia’ (as conventionally defined) to discuss the internationalisation of higher education in the politically troubled context of Israel / Palestine. Our guest on this occasion is Dr. Annette Bamberger of Bar Ilan University in Israel. Annette has...
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Evelyn Kim on ‘Happiness Education’ in Korea
In this episode, Edward Vickers talks to Evelyn Kim (Kim Min Ji), who lectures on the Comparative Education MA at the UCL Institute of Education. They discuss Evelyn’s work on policies pursued by the South Korean government since around 2012 under the rubric of ‘Happiness Education’. Various...
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Benjamin Mulvey on Academic Freedom in China
In this episode, Ed talks to Benjamin Mulvey of Glasgow University about an article Ben has recently written with Bok-Nga Lee on ‘the intellectual-state relationship and academic freedom in China’. Many observers have noted growing constraints affecting scholarly research and higher education in...
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Mark Maca on Education and Labour Migration from the Philippine
The Philippines is one of the largest exporters of migrant workers in the world. Global shipping as well as the hospitality, medical, entertainment, domestic work and other sectors of many economies rely heavily on Filipino workers. In this episode, Edward Vickers talks to Dr Mark Maca about his...
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Latika Gupta on Educational Philanthropy in India
NGOs and philanthropic organisations have played a growing role in the education sector in many societies over recent years. This has perhaps been especially apparent in the aid sector, with the activities of outfits such as the Gates Foundation expanding alongside the work of bilateral and...
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Yeshim Iqbal on Educational challenges facing Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
The plight of the Rohingya refugees from Myanmar has largely been forgotten in recent years, as global attention has turned to crises in other regions. But hundreds of thousands of Rohingya remain displaced and effectively stateless, with the largest number (around a million) in Bangladesh. In…
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Chawin Pongpajon on education and peace building in southern Thailand
In this, the third of our three episodes on education and ethnocultural diversity in Thailand, we talk to Chawin Pongpajon of Chulalongkorn University, who is also a PhD candidate at the UCL Institute of Education. Chawin’s doctoral project is entitled Education for assimilation or social...
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Omsin Jatuporn on multiculturalism, Thailand’s ethnic minorities, and challenges for teachers
Continuing our discussions of education and the challenges of ethnocultural diversity in Thailand, in this episode we talk to Omsin Jatuporn, who is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Social Science Education, at Chiang Mai University. Chiang Mai, in northern Thailand, is central to a…
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Dr Thithimadee Arphattananon on multicultural education in Thailand
In recent years, Thailand has experienced a wave of migration from neighbouring countries, particularly of workers seeking relatively low-paid, low-skilled jobs. This has added a new element to the ethnocultural and linguistic diversity that has always been a feature of Thai society - though one...
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David Tobin on visualising insecurity in China’s counter-terror education
(See below for a selection of images from David’s article, related to the discussion in this episode.) In this final episode of our series on The Politics of Education on China’s Periphery (linked to the special issue of Comparative Education), Edward Vickers talks to David Tobin of Sheffield...
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Haruna Kasai on language education and identity politics in Taiwan
Following on from the previous episode, in which we discussed the ROC’s Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission, in this episode of the Asian Education Podcast we discuss language education in Taiwan and its relationship with the island’s fraught identity politics. Haruna Kasai, a doctoral…
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Alessandra Ferrer on the ROC’s ‘Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission’ on Taiwan
In this episode of our series on ‘The Politics of Education on China’s Periphery’, we discuss a little-known entity perhaps only peripherally related to education, but central to the shifting politics of identity in contemporary Taiwan: the ‘Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission’ (蒙藏委員會)…
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Academic freedom in Hong Kong and beyond
In this episode, recorded in December 2023, Ed talks to Queenie Lam of Trier University (Germany) and Y-Europe about the issue of academic freedom in China, specifically as it relates to Hong Kong. Dr. Lam grew up in Hong Kong, but has family roots in mainland China (Fujian) and South East Asia...
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James Leibold and Tendor Dorjee on ‘colonial-style boarding schools’ for Tibetans
Continuing our series on ‘The Politics of Education on China’s Periphery’, featuring authors of articles in the related special issue of Comparative Education, in this episode Edward Vickers interviews James Leibold and Tendor Dorjee, co-authors of an article on boarding schools for Tibetan...
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Tianlong Yu on Confucianism in multicultural China
The special issue of Comparative Education on ‘The Politics of Education on China’s Periphery’ (issue 60.1, 2024) features an article by Tianlong Yu and Zhenzhou Zhao on ‘Confucianism in Multicultural China’. In this episode of the Asian Education Podcast, Edward Vickers talks to Tianlong about…
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Yan Fei on the changing portrayal of ‘minority nationalities’ in China’s history textbooks
Continuing our series on ‘the politics of education on China’s periphery’, in this episode Ed and Gairan interview Yan Fei, who co-authored a paper for the Comparative Education special issue (60.1) on ‘shifting state policies and the curricular portrayal of China’s minority nationalities’. Dr.…
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The culturalisation of politics in Chinese citizenship education
This second season of the Asian Education Podcast features conversations with various contributors to a special issue of the journal Comparative Education on the theme of ‘The Politics of Education on China’s Periphery’. The special issue is devoted primarily to analysis of peripheralised...
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Season 1 Episode 12
In this final episode of our first season, Edward Vickers talks to Prof. Lin Tzu-Bin of National Taiwan Normal University’s College of Education about one of the most ambitious - and contentious - education policies to be introduced in Taiwan in recent years: the Bilingual Education Policy....
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Season 1 Episode 11
The War Heritage Podcast is produced by Tim Winter and colleagues in the WARMAP partnership. A podcast about war and culture in Southeast Asia, it was produced with funding from the UNESCO Jakarta Office. Over the past two decades, Asia has undergone a war memory book, and as the gravity of power...
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Season 1 Episode 10
Shadow education, in the form of examination-preparatory tutorial schooling, is pervasive across much of Asia. The costs in terms of family finances, the narrowing of educational focus and the ex-hausting competitiveness of examination cramming for the youngsters involved have aroused much...
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Season 1 Episode 9
In this episode, Edward Vickers talks to Professor Fazal Rizvi of the University of Melbourne about his recent involvement in recent education reform initiatives in the Kingdom of Bhutan. Famous internationally for its espousal of the ‘Gross Happiness Index’ in place of the conventional notion of...
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Season 1 Episode 8
In March 2023, Edward Vickers recorded an interview with Professor Krishna Kumar (Episode 7) in which they discussed the reform of the curricula and textbooks produced by India’s National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) during Prof. Kumar’s term as Director between 2005 and...
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Season 1 Episode 7
In this episode, Edward Vickers interviews Professor Krishna Kumar ‘on location’ in Chandigarh, India. Professor Kumar, formerly of the Central Institute of Education at Delhi University, is a distinguished theorist of education and prominent commentator on a range of educational issues in India...
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Season 1 Episode 6
Part 2: Ethical implications of educational technology and learning assessments This episode continues the conversation begun in Episode 5 with Professor Anita Rampal, former Dean of the Faculty of Education at Delhi University. We further discuss the growing ascendency of ‘non-state actors’ in...
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Season 1 Episode 5
In this episode of the Asian Education Podcast, we are joined by Professor Anita Rampal, who was the Dean of the Faculty of Education at Delhi University and has over 40 years of active engagement with the state education system in India. Her long and rich career as an educationist includes her...
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The Asian Education Podcast is a forum for discussing research on education and related social issues in Asian contexts. It also seeks to provide Asian perspectives on global debates over education policy and practice. It also seeks to provide Asian perspectives on global debates over education policy and practice.Hosted by Edward Vickers, Yoko Mochizuki, and Gairanlu Pamei, the Asian Education Podcast is produced by the UNESCO Chair on Education for Peace, Social Justice and Global Citizenship at Kyushu University, Japan, in association with the Comparative Education Society of Asia.
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