In Episode 51
Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr.
Shirley & Dr.
Hargreaves. Both are Research Professors at
Boston College. Dr.
Dennis Shirley is a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the
Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin
. Dr.
Hargreaves is Visiting Professor at
UOttawa and Co-Director of a
Canadian Playful Schools Network. They have collaborated as writers, teachers, speakers, and advisers for almost 20 years. We discussed some of the following issues: lived experiences as transnational migrants and academics, collaborations with ministries of education, school board
leaders and teachers in Alberta, Ontario, England, and United States,
life transitions, the failure to engage white working class communities, intersectionality, rethinking sympathy versus empathy, researching intergenerational macro and micro educational, historical, philosophical, political, and religious contexts during what they have titled
The Age of Identity, their fifth co-authored book, and so much more.