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Another Education Is Possible

Another Education Is Possible

Through struggle, we learn. And through learning, we struggle. But how do these processes work together? And how can we orient our learning toward the kinds of struggles that matter? This podcast explores these questions (and more!) through rich, sprawling conversations with organizers working inside and outside of conventional classrooms.

For the third season, Jordan is joined by comrades Eli and Olive to focus on radical projects around the world that are working toward liberatory learning on their own terms. From South Mexico to Palestine to Philadelphia, what alternative educational worlds are already in existence? How are they maintained, despite all odds, and how can we proliferate them? Join us to hear first-hand about what possibilities lie beyond traditional classrooms, and what education can look like when it’s unbound from capitalism, colonialism, and the state. We can’t promise easy answers, but we can promise, in the spirit of the Zapatistas, to keep on asking questions as we walk the path. Subscribe to Another Education is Possible so that you can catch all of our episodes, and follow us here on Instagram! You can also stay connected with us and other listeners through our Discord and Substack.

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  • 20 episodes
  • weekly
  • Avg 49 min
  • English
  • S3 · E2
    September 15 · 53 min

    Resonances of an Anarchist Education (with Mark Bray)

    Historian Mark Bray joins the podcast to discuss Spanish anarchist and educator Francisco Ferrer, the Modern School that he helped start in Barcelona in the early 1900s, and the way Ferrer's work continues to resonate (or doesn't) with current radical education projects.

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  • S3 · E1
    September 1 · 1 hr 13 min

    On Friends and Comrades (with hosts Jordan, Eli, Olive)

    Another Season Is Possible! On the first episode of season 3, hosts Jordan Corson, Eli Meyerhoff, and Olive introduce the podcast and explore what the new season is all about.

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  • S2 · E24
    April 6 · 1 hr 23 min

    Education as Everything

    In the final episode of the second season, host Jordan Corson joins M.A. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies students from the Education, Genocide, Liberation course to explore education's role in this world and the one to come.

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  • S2 · E22
    March 23 · 37 min

    Education as Pathways (Molly Hamm-Rodriguez on human capital, youth resistance, and the many reasons of language learning)

    As we have explored several times on this podcast, education can be an opportunity. But, for what is it an opportunity? Who gets to pursue which opportunities? In this episode, Dr. Molly Hamm-Rodriguez poses these questions to explore youth workforce programs in the Dominican Republic and U.S. Where these programs aim to make education serve the racialized logics of human capital, Molly shows how youth navigate, resist, and negotiate. In doing so, they pursue language learning and other kinds of education for many purposes, including those that escape human capital.

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  • S2 · E21
    March 16 · 56 min

    Education as Play (Haeny Yoon and Nathan Holbert of Pop and Play)

    In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Haeny Yoon and Dr. Nathan Holbert, hosts of the podcast Pop and Play. Host Bosco engages in a conversation about how education can and cannot be play both in and out of school. Is play present in school even if it is not apparent? What do cooking recipes have to do with play in schools? Additionally, Haeny and Nathan discuss the nuances of play, when play is both a “good” and “bad” experience, though both play important roles in experiential learning.

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  • S2 · E20
    March 10 · 42 min

    Education as Abolition (Ndindi Kitonga on the pedagogies of solidarity, activism, and democratic eduction)

    Ndindi Kitonga, PhD - educator, organizer, activist and co-founder of Angeles Workshop School - joins guest host Roy Danovitch to explore the pedagogical and political meanings of solidarity. Drawing from her experience growing up in Kawangware, Kenya, and her teaching and activism in Los Angeles and beyond, Ndindi frames anti-colonial pedagogy, democratic schooling, and mutual aid as inseparable and mutually constituting practices. We talk about alienation, abolitionism, youth voice, and why another education isn't just possible - it’s already being built. Find more of Dr. Kitonga’s work at angelesworkshopschool.com, liberatedethnicstudies.org, and palmsunhousedmutualaid.org

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  • S2 · E18
    February 23 · 40 min

    Education as Weaving (Amanda Tachine on indigenous knowledges and weapons to fight colonial structures)

    Dr. Amanda Tachine threads stories for listeners. In doing so, she engages the complexities and possibilities of how indigenous people might engage with institutions of higher education. In this episode, Amanda's stories critically explore questions of visibility, access, and sovereignty. She thinks with indigenous youth and communities to present a vision of educational research and educational life that is deeply anticolonial and brimming with possibility.

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  • S2 · E17
    February 16 · 43 min

    Education as De/Constructing Ableism (Susan Baglieri on teaching dis/ability and collective care)

    Building on last week’s conversation regarding disability justice, Dr. Susan Baglieri joins Samantha Hoelhe and Bosco to discuss various aspects of disability education. We interrogate segregationist spaces and curricular guidelines, emphasize ways to create networks of collective access and caring, and highlight the importance of student autonomy and practices of resistance within and beyond spaces for people with disabilities.

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  • S2 · E15
    February 9 · 48 min

    Education as Fighting/Waiting (Roozbeh Shirazi on study and struggle in this moment)

    Early on in this episode, Dr. Roozbeh Shirazi, an Iranian scholar living and working in the Twin Cities, tells listeners that he sits at the center of a lot of Venn Diagrams in this political moment. But this "emergency" episode is not a dispatch. Instead, Roozbeh invites listeners to imagine ways that education can be a reclamation and reconfiguration of time. He presents an idea called "pedagogies of meanwhile" that open space to think what else is possible in this moment and the next.

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  • S2 · E14
    February 2 · 44 min

    Education as the Strongest Weapon (Thea Abu El-Haj on the Palestine Exception, Conditional Belonging, and Scholasticide)

    In this episode, Dr. Thea Renda Abu El-Haj joins us to discuss her book Unsettled Belonging and her current work with Palestinian Nakba generation teachers. The discussion moves from how education invisibilizes U.S. empire to the ways that student encampments illuminate alternative spaces of scholarship and resistance. Dr. Abu El-Haj also explores the relentless censorship of those writing about Palestine and how people, especially those in Palestine, still do the work of fighting for a free Palestine.

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  • S2 · E12
    January 19 · 50 min

    Education as Resistance (Dr. Ahmed Kamal Junina on Scholasticide, Displacement, and Teaching Under Siege)

    In this episode of Another Education Is Possible, hosts Y and Jordan speak with Dr. Ahmed Junina, a Palestinian academic reflecting on education amid displacement and the destruction of universities in Gaza. The conversation explores scholasticide, teaching as a political and ethical practice, and how education functions as a way of resistance any kind of erasure and also survival under conditions of war.

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  • S2 · E11
    January 12 · 52 min

    Education as Refuge and Conflict (Diana Rodriguez Gomez on the complex role of education during armed conflict)

    In this episode of Another Education Is Possible, hosts Jordan and Neli speak with Diana Rodríguez Gómez, Assistant Professor in the Educational Policy Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The conversation explores what education looks like in the context of armed conflict and examines the everyday rhythms of schooling in these challenging environments.

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  • S2 · E10
    Dec 22, 2025 · 56 min

    Education as Class(room) Struggle (Mark Leier with guest host Ermioni Vlachidou)

    Dr. Mark Leier, in many ways, grew up at Simon Fraser University. From visiting the campus as a child to later teaching there, he has consistently sought to introduce democratic pedagogical methods into education. In this episode, he joins guest host Ermioni Vlachidou to reflect on his journey through different stages of being an educator and discusses how both he and his classes have evolved over the years.

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  • S2 · E9
    Dec 15, 2025 · 37 min

    Education as Unscripted Trans Pedagogies (Harper Keenan on queer and trans studies in education)

    On this week's episode, Dr Harper Keenan joins co-hosts Emmy and Jordan to discuss trans pedagogies and non-prescriptive curriculums. While these terms might be on the newer side of things in educational discourses, queer and trans people are not. Their educational experiences tell a multitude of stories that have all too often been invisiblized in schools. While attending to the relentless forces of repression, Harper shows the possibilities of building classrooms and other educational spaces that affirm queer and trans students.

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  • S2 · E8
    Dec 8, 2025 · 48 min

    Education as Landscapes of Sanctuary (Chandler Miranda on affirmative schooling with and for immigrant youth)

    Sanctuary in school can be a way of thinking about how to protect immigrant students. As Dr. Chandler Miranda shows in this episode, making schools into sanctuaries requires shifts in the very foundations of schooling. This means reframing what knowledges are centered, how teachers think with their students (particularly marginalized students) from an asset-based perspective, and altering common sense elements of schooling like classroom layouts and assessment structures. Moreover, this shift rethinks the notion of sanctuary itself. Sanctuary is here not static and isolating but rather a mobile and active building of space that forges constellations of care that resist anti-immigrant forces. In this episode, Chandler takes us through the history of one such network of schools, the Internationals Network for Public schools. She also guides us through everyday life in one of their schools. Throughout, she explores how this school community contends with and continues its work in this heightened moment of repression.

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