In this episode, interviewer Sally Windsor talks with Cathie Burgess who, along with co-authors Katrina Thorpe and Christine Grice, wrote a chapter about the arrangements that enable and constrain early career teachers as they apply Aboriginal curriculum and pedagogies. The teachers in the study completed Aboriginal community-led ‘Learning from Country’ (LFC) electives at university. Teachers focused on strengths-based learning approaches and developing relationships with Aboriginal communities, creating solidarity between local Aboriginal communities and the teachers.

For more, read Chapter 13: Aboriginal curriculum enactment: Stirring teachers into the practices of learning from Country in the city by Katrina Thorpe, Cathie Burgess and Christine Grice

In this episode, interviewer Mervi Kaukko speaks with Kristin Reimer about her work with students from the Monash Access Program (MAP), an alternative entry into university. The students in MAP have had educational disadvantage in their lives and offer their perspectives into education's role. Kristin talks about the potential for formal education to provide us with experiences of manageability, comprehensibility and meaningfulness in order to create a world where we are able to thrive individually and collectively.

For more, read Chapter 12: Education that makes life manageable, comprehensible and meaningful: Experiences of the Monash Access Program, a university alternative entry pathway by Kristin Reimer

In this episode, interviewer Sally Windsor speaks with Leila Khulud about the New South Wales Special Religious Education (SRE) as an opportunity for students of faith backgrounds to foster their religious identity and spiritual health. Leila is currently working on research that introduces an online SRE intervention for Muslim youth. In the conversation, online SRE is discussed as a large-scale, cost-effective, and practical educational measure for enhancing the wellbeing of adolescents of faith backgrounds in public schools.

For more, read Chapter 11: New pathway to adolescent wellbeing: The case for online Special Religious Education in public schools by Leila Khaled