Okay! School Me

Okay! School Me

This podcast is meant to educate and encourage thought among listeners on a range of topics. Hosts and guests demonstrate the ways the “classroom” is everywhere and how classrooms are liberatory spaces of inclusive knowledge production and inclusive equity.

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October 25, 2023 62 mins

What does it mean to work, study, and belong in a New American University? In this episode, we discuss pressing topics in higher education from politically motivated mischaracterizations of Critical Race Theory to conceptually redefining what it looks and feels like to belong at public universities. We invited scholars to help us unpack exactly who is creating and who belongs in the conceptual spaces being crafted by schools around...

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In this episode, we are joined by scholar-artists Dr. Celina Osuna, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso, and Dr. Mathew Sandoval, Associate Teaching Professor in Barrett the Honors College on the Downtown campus at ASU. Osuna and Sandoval join Social Transformation Director Mako Fitts Ward in a conversation on the role of art in transforming the way we think, how we move and the overall lens through...

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October 4, 2023 51 mins

Don’t believe the hype! Much of the narratives about LGBTQIA+ communities and conversations regarding their rights have become fodder for political theatre. In this episode, the Lab brings together educators and community leaders to discuss the legacy and importance of intentional community, strong visual representation, and strategic activism.

 

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- Recorded at: EdPlus Studios, Tempe, Arizona

- Host(s): Kyle McKinne...

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September 27, 2023 46 mins

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Carrie Sampson and Ashley Farrell on the educational landscape in Arizona, covering a range of topics including the movement against Critical Race Theory (CRT), the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education, the interplay between parental demands for choice and the narrowing of options, and the push to restructure our educational system through social policy. 

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September 20, 2023 37 mins

This is the question on the table in this inaugural episode of Okay! School Me. A mosaic of faculty voices from the ASU community consider definitions of “social transformation.” This episode was designed to showcase the complexity and diversity inherent in processes of social change.

 

Episode Details:

- Recorded at EdPlus Studios, Tempe, Arizona

- Host(s): Celina Osuna and Mako Fitts Ward

- Guest(s): Heather Switzer, Rudy P. Guev...

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September 12, 2023 4 mins

Okay! School Me was born from a place of exploration. In this teaser episode, scholars from the Social Transformation Lab demonstrate the interest around social difference and what it means to think outside the university classroom.

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