Having a voice and a sense of belonging in a soccer club with Ramon Spaaij - PTE038
Pushing The Edge with Greg Curran
Release Date: 06/06/2017
'I Do, We Do, You Do' in Maths with Margarita Breed - PTE056
Pushing The Edge with Greg Curran
In Episode 56, we are critically unpacking the 'I do, we do, you do' teaching model in the maths classroom. Plus, why productive struggle is a must for our students in maths, and why you should start Fraction Talks in your classroom.
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Explaining our Thinking in Maths with Margarita Breed - PTE055
Pushing The Edge with Greg Curran
In Episode 55, what matters in respect to explaining, making connections, and being efficient at an A or B grade level in maths? And how do we build students' skills in each area?
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Why's The Maths Teacher Here for Social Studies with Jenna Laib - PTE054
Pushing The Edge with Greg Curran
In Episode 54, how can we challenge Eurocentrism in the maths classroom and value Indigenous knowledge? Plus, how can we use graphs to explore social justice issues, and cultivate mathematical thinking with our students.
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Building Cultures of Thinking in the Maths Classroom with Margarita Breed - PTE053
Pushing The Edge with Greg Curran
In Episode 53, taking the emphasis off the answer in maths, focusing on building meaning and connections rather than remembering rules, and using low floor, high ceiling rich maths tasks. Plus, we have lots of maths teaching resources to share.
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Looking at the World in Mathematical Ways with Marian Dingle - PTE052
Pushing The Edge with Greg Curran
In Episode 52, how do our families mathematise us? How does maths at home compare to maths at school? And why are our cultures so important in maths classrooms?
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Liberating Literature in Our Classrooms and Libraries with Julia Torres - PTE051
Pushing The Edge with Greg Curran
In Episode 51, young people are engaging with literature in ways that are quite different to prior generations. We’ll explore young adult fiction that reflects our students' lives, issues, and worlds. We'll also challenge the traditional literary canon along the way.
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Optimism, Hope and a Place to Belong with Rodney Croome - PTE050
Pushing The Edge with Greg Curran
In Episode 50, a chat with long-time LGBTI human rights activist Rodney Croome. We explore the lessons learnt from the early campaigns to legalise homosexuality, unpack why personal stories are key, and small target strategies a mistake. Plus, we zero in on the dangers of the 'religious freedom' movement.
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Liberation and Resistance in Schools with Benjamin Doxtdator - PTE049
Pushing The Edge with Greg Curran
In Episode 49, making our schools' sites of liberation and resistance. Plus challenging the dominant narratives that blame individual students whilst giving scant attention to the social justice, and structural issues impacting on them.
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Challenging Stereotypes about Race, Religion, & Suburbs with Amra Pajalic - PTE048
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In Episode 48, we explore teaching in a western suburbs school, where students often face bigotry, and negative stereotyping based on their race, their religious beliefs, and where they live. Plus, we unpack how to expand students' ideas about being Muslim.
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Navigating White Spaces with Sherri Spelic - PTE047
Pushing The Edge with Greg Curran
In Episode 47, fitting in and assimilation in predominantly white spaces. Plus, promoting girls' participation in sports, and making physical education classes more inclusive and fair.
info_outlineIn this episode, we focus on a soccer team in the western suburbs of Melbourne Australia. A team made up almost entirely of new arrivals and refugees from the Horn of Africa.
Our guest studied this team, its players and families over a 3 year period. And we'll be unpacking his key discoveries.
In particular, how the players' construct their identities, their sense of place, and belonging to their new country through soccer and sport more generally.
Also how the young women are resisting narrow & discriminatory views of femininity AND creating their own sports spaces.
Plus how sports clubs are serving their entire communities using strengths or assets-based approaches to drive change.
For full show-notes go to: http://pushingtheedge.org/sports
Episode 38 - Quick-Guide
▪ Ramon's emerging interest in soccer & sport
▪ The local soccer club on Ramon's doorstep
▪ The challenges of running a local soccer club - for migrants & refugees
▪ Why migrants & refugees want to be involved in a soccer club
▪ The trans-national identities of the soccer players
▪ The generational differences in attitudes towards sport (parents and children)
▪ The gendered nature of sport
▪ Developing social and cultural capital through sport
▪ How playing sport challenges ideas about 'femininity' (Bodily capital and gender)
▪ Bridging capital: facing exclusion and discrimination in sporting clubs
▪ How sports clubs are using strengths and asset-based approaches to drive change
▪ The Lightning Round: cultural mobility and sport, cultural differences, participation, gender in sport, inclusion, one way versus two way processes to change
▪ The impact on Ramon - of researching his local soccer club (realisations of white privilege)
Episode Links
▪ To connect with Ramon Spaaij, and to find all the show links, go to http://pushingtheedge.org/sports/
▪ There you'll also find resources to make your Phys Ed class and Sports Club more inclusive.
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