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Education
Interviews with scholars of education about their new books.
November 19, 2024
Developing Scholars
Over the past fifty years, debates concerning race and college admissions have focused primarily on the policy of affirmative action at elite institut…
November 19, 2024
Supporting Multilingual Families to Engage with their Children’s Schooling
How can school communications become more accessible to multilingual families? In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Dr Agnes Bodis tal…
November 18, 2024
Higher Education for All
The 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education remains to this day the largest and most ambitious attempt to provide free, universal college edu…
November 15, 2024
Raised to Obey
How the expansion of primary education in the West emerged not from democratic ideals but from the state's desire to control its citizens. Nearly e…
November 12, 2024
How to Love a Child
How to Love a Child and Other Selected Works (Vallentine Mitchell, 2018) is the first comprehensive collection of Korczak's works translated into Engl…
November 9, 2024
Black Woman on Board
Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action (University of Rochester Press, 2024)…
November 7, 2024
Why Not Be Kind?
Today’s book is: A Pedagogy of Kindness (University of Oklahoma Press, 2024), by Dr. Catherine Denial, which explores why academia is not, by and larg…
November 6, 2024
Celebrating University Press Week
The Association of University Presses (AUPresses), a global organization of 161 mission-driven publishers, is proud to announce a collection of 123 bo…
November 6, 2024
Dante's Education
In fourteenth-century Italy, literacy became accessible to a significantly larger portion of the lay population (allegedly between 60 and 80 percent i…
October 26, 2024
Little Book of Restorative Teaching Tools for Online Learning
Teaching, training, and gathering online has become a global norm since 2020. Restorative practitioners have risen to the challenge to shift restorati…
October 21, 2024
Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Meryl Alper, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, about her recent b…
October 17, 2024
Teaching Honesty in a Populist Era
Democracy is struggling in an age of populism and post-truth. In a world swirling with competing political groups stating conflicting facts, citizens …
October 17, 2024
You Can't Teach That!
Who controls what is taught in American universities – professors or politicians? The answer is far from clear but suddenly urgent. Unprecedented effo…
October 3, 2024
Black Woman on Board
Today’s book is: Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action (University of Roche…
September 28, 2024
Michael S. Roth on the Rise of Student Protests, the Fall of Some College Presidents, and Why Liberal Education Matters
The campus protests over conflict in Israel and Gaza have engulfed universities, and led to the resignation of several university presidents. In this …
September 25, 2024
Conducting Original Research for Your Library
Conducting Original Research for Your Library (Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited, 2024) is a concise manual for professionals in the field, this book hel…
September 24, 2024
Plato the Teacher
In Plato the Teacher: The Crisis of the Republic (Lexington, 2012), William Altman shines a light on the pedagogical technique of the playful Plato, e…
September 23, 2024
In Silence or Indifference
Librarians around the country are currently on a battleground, defending their right to purchase and circulate books dealing with issues of race and s…
September 15, 2024
Teaching Israel
Today I talked to Sivan Zakai and Matt Reingold's their book Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field (Brandeis UP, 2023). In this discuss…
September 14, 2024
Education, Civics, and Citizenship in Egypt
Ehaab D. Abdou's book Education, Civics, and Citizenship in Egypt: Towards More Inclusive Curricular Representations and Teaching (Palgrave Macmillan,…