Radio and Podcasting as a Pedagogical Tool
Dr Patrick Evans
University of East London
This presentation will focus on the pedagogical benefits of radio and podcasting, including exploring how this form of innovation in education can support diverse teaching and learning strategies, including flipped classrooms, microlearning, and reflective practice.
Arts and Creative Industries Technical Associate Dr Patrick Evans will discuss questions such as:
- How can emergent practices that use radio or podcasts translate research into engaging narratives for public audiences and interdisciplinary dialogue?
- How can radio and podcast practices allow academics, students, and external voices to bypass traditional gatekeepers?
- What could be the potential benefits of empowering students to create radio or podcasts as part of their coursework?
- What could be the role of radio and podcasting in civic engagement by higher education institutions?
- How can radio and podcast initiatives challenge traditional academic hierarchies and open space for diverse epistemologies and challenging discourses?
The session will also include an introduction to the ‘RadioActive 2.0’ platform currently being piloted. A collaboration between the schools of Arts and Creative Industries and Childhood and Social Care, the project aims to address engagement, informal and digital learning and employability of young people, students and staff via an internet radio and podcast platform. Lead by Professor Andrew Ravenscroft and Dr Patrick Evans, the current focus is on realising personal and community development and social change through enabling young people, students and staff to increase their confidence, self-esteem, aspirations, employability and personal skills and become active citizens who can affect social and community change through participation in internet radio and podcasts.
RadioActive 2.0 has established partnerships with two robust youth support organisations linked to our local London Borough’s of Newham and Redbridge. They were both actively engaged in the co-design of the RadioActive 2 platform and have also co-produced content with UEL students and staff.