# Confronting the Education Polycrisis w/ Dr. James Mannion

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Podcast: [Human Restoration Project](https://stenobird.com/podcast/human-restoration-project-331008)
Published: 2025-07-19T11:30:00+00:00
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"The problems we face are not the fault of any single individual or organisation. They are often the by-product of good intentions. And yet, alongside children and young people and their parents and carers, it's educators who are most exposed to these pressures – who confront them every day, and try to make it all work regardless," writes today's guest in a piece from May titled Confronting the educational polycrisis. Joining us from Brighton, UK Dr James Mannion is a keynote speaker, teacher trainer, researcher, consultant and author with a passion for educational and political reform. He is the co-founder and Director of Rethinking Education, a teacher training organisation specialising in implementation and improvement science, self-regulated learning and practitioner inquiry. A former teacher of 12 years, James has an MA in person-centred education from the University of Sussex and a PhD in self-regulated learning from the University of Cambridge. He is also the host of the popular Rethinking Education podcast, of which I have been a huge fan for a long time. In fact, HRP contributed the very first video essay we ever made to a virtual arm of James's Rethinking Education Conference back in 2022. This conversation crossover has certainly been a long time coming! "We have multiple crises on our hands," James writes, "They interact and have become entangled. This makes them difficult to resolve - but resolve them we must." And my hope today is that even if we can't untangle the polycrisis today, we can at least get a better grasp and perhaps loosen their hold on our education systems. https://drjamesmannion.substack.com/ https://makingchangestick.substack.com/ https://www.educationpa.org/ https://wssnow.org/ https://www.ucyottawa.com/invitation-to-the-rcen-book-club/

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