{"podcast":{"title":"Future Learning Design Podcast","slug":"future-learning-design-podcast-2962232","podcast_index_feed_id":2962232,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/2b5499dc/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.goodimpactlabs.com/podcast","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/7169647/7169647-1725084156574-72a4b24e57367.jpg","author":"Tim Logan","episode_count":245,"summary":"We are stuck in an old paradigm, with institutional structures that were built for a world that no longer exists. Within education, passionate entrepreneurs & committed citizens are no longer waiting for these broken formal institutions to be reformed. All over the world, they're designing & building their own local responses with relationships at their core. These are the education ecosystems that our young people need and out of which new institutions will emerge. This podcast is an inquiry into these fundamental changes and an invitation to join the movement to help nurture positive change.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-19T22:20:50.236579+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-learning-design-podcast-2962232"},"episode":{"title":"Embodied Critical Thinking - A Conversation with Donata Schoeller and Sigridur (Sigga) Thorgeirsdottir","slug":"embodied-critical-thinking-a-conversation-with-donata-schoeller-and-sigridur-sigga-thorgeirsdottir","published_at":"2026-02-07T23:59:13+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-learning-design-podcast-2962232/embodied-critical-thinking-a-conversation-with-donata-schoeller-and-sigridur-sigga-thorgeirsdottir","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-learning-design-podcast-2962232","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/futurelearningdesign/episodes/Embodied-Critical-Thinking---A-Conversation-with-Donata-Schoeller-and-Sigridur-Sigga-Thorgeirsdottir-e3epiui","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/2b5499dc/podcast/play/115181970/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-1-7%2F8cdea2b2-0a3b-1440-97c4-c060b4c1aad8.mp3","summary":"There aren't many things that prompt widespread agreement from people on all sides of the various educational debates. But whatever your educational stripes, young people becoming better critical thinkers usually gets unanimous support. And, arguably, it's being recognised as increasingly important in a world full of AI-generated content and chatbots pretending to be your friend! So I was completely fascinated when I discovered the work of my guests this week, who, as professors of Philosophy, are exploring the often overlooked embodied process of what it feels like to engage in critical thinking and how that process gets shaped by our experiences and inspirations. The fact that thinking comes from somewhere, is very often forgotten in the encouragement of our students to develop their "analytical", "rational" and "logical" skills in pursuit of objectivity. This applies as much in sciences and maths as it does in other humanities subjects like philosophy. And it has major implications for how we teach critical thinking in sophisticated ways aligned with the latest cognitive science, rather than perpetuating the narrow idea that it is simply a dispassionate logical set of computations (which we're clearly seeing the LLMs are much better at than us squishy humans who care about stuff!). Donata Schoeller - https://www.donataschoeller.com/ - is Research Professor, Philosophy, at the University of Iceland, Iceland and Associate Professor at the University of Koblenz. She is a Principal Investigator, and Conceptual Director of “Freedom to make sense: Embodied, experiential Inquiry and Research,” and the Academic Director of the European Erasmus programmes Training Embodied Critical Thinking and Understanding. She has researched and published ext…","meta_description":"There aren't many things that prompt widespread agreement from people on all sides of the various educational debates. But whatever your educational strip…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3075,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/future-learning-design-podcast-2962232/episodes/embodied-critical-thinking-a-conversation-with-donata-schoeller-and-sigridur-sigga-thorgeirsdottir/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-learning-design-podcast-2962232/embodied-critical-thinking-a-conversation-with-donata-schoeller-and-sigridur-sigga-thorgeirsdottir.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}