Podcasts
The role of songs in languages learning
Singing songs with young learners is a classroom technique beloved by many teachers, especially languages teachers.
17 April 2026
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Playful Pedagogies: Critical thinking, Creativity, Constructing Meaning
In this special extended edition of the Oxford Education Deanery podcast, Professor Kathy Hirsh-Pasek joins Dr Faidra Faitaki and Jasen Booton to explore how playful pedagogies can transform education.
17 April 2026
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Raised by Relatives – Kinship Carers from Black and Asian Communities
More than one in five of the 120,000 kinship children in England live with minority ethnic kinship carers.
17 April 2026
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Bullying or Counter Connecting – Two inclusive definitions for schools
About 40% of children and young people are exposed to bullying, but this rate has been reported to be as high as 69% for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
17 April 2026
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Addressing educational disadvantage
Informed by her career as a teacher and her work at the Educational Endowment Foundation, Charlotte shares some of the statistics around children in receipt of free school meals and the strategies that schools are using to support them.
17 April 2026
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Episode 4 – Velda Elliott
We hear from Velda about why reading is so important, the Lit in Colour campaign and what we’re doing to support the National
Year of Reading.
17 April 2026
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Radical Youth Spaces for Educations
Hear more about why the RYSE exists, the way they do things and how their work is linked to wider struggles for the future.
17 April 2026
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Runnymede Trust
In Hackney (listen out for the Overground trains!) they discuss curriculum, reparatory justice and how the wider political climate impacts schools.
17 April 2026
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Episode 3 – Sara Ratner
Sara is currently the Principal Investigator on the AI in Education at Oxford University (AIEOU) Hub.
17 April 2026
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The benefits of coaching as part of Early Years Continued Professional Development
The ‘Expert and Mentors’ programme, which was funded by the Department for Education’s £180 million Early Years’ Recovery initiative, provided on-site coaching for up to six hours per term to Early Years’ settings, with a focus on improving the way the setting supported personal, social, and emotional development (PSED) and communication and language skills.
17 April 2026
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Chatting with AfOx fellow Vuyokazi Mntuyedwa on digital literacies and South African Higher Education
This episode of ‘Conversations in Med Ed’ is a departure from the usual Health Professions Education conversations to look at Higher Education more broadly.
17 April 2026
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