Education

Education

episodes

Interviews with scholars of education about their new books.

Rebecca Kosick, "Dispatches from the Avant-Garage: The Alternative Press" (Wayne State UP, 2026)

June 22, 2026

Detroit's Alternative Press

Rebecca Kosick
Hosted by Dave O'Brien

Can publishing change the world? In Dispatches from the Avant-Garage: The Alternative Press Rebecca Kosick (Wayne State UP, 2026), an Associate Profes…

Audio and Ideas: Exploring the Possibilities for Scholarly Podcasting, Panel #2

June 21, 2026

Audio and Ideas

Chenjerai Kumanyika, Vinson Cunningham, and Julia Barton

This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On May 13, 2026, Princeton’s Center for Human Values hosted a d…

Jackie M. Blount, "Straighten Up, Girls and Boys: How Schools Have Shaped Sexuality and Gender" (Harvard Education Press, 2026)

June 21, 2026

Straighten Up, Girls and Boys

Jackie M. Blount
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

In Straighten Up, Girls and Boys: How Schools Have Shaped Sexuality and Gender (Harvard Education Press, 2026), acclaimed historian and educator Jacki…

Shelley Fisher Fishkin, "Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade" (Yale UP, 2025)

June 21, 2026

Jim

Shelley Fisher Fishkin

Mark Twain’s Jim, introduced in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), is a shrewd, self‑aware, and enormously admirable enslaved man, one of the firs…

Amy J. Heineke and Kristin J. Davin, "Pathways to the Seal of Biliteracy: Promoting Multilingualism in Elementary and Middle Schools" (Georgetown UP, 2026)

June 20, 2026

Pathways to the Seal of Biliteracy

Amy J. Heineke and Kristin J. Davin
Hosted by Laura Kelly

A roadmap for enhancing students' equitable access to biliteracy development Monolingual ideologies have driven US educational policy for centuries. D…

Inside the Mississippi Marathon: How Mississippi Dramatically Improved Its Education System with Rachel Canter

June 19, 2026

Inside the Mississippi Marathon

Rachel Canter
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

In 2008, Rachel Canter founded Mississippi First, an education non-profit with the mission of improving educational outcomes for students across the s…

Audio and Ideas: Exploring the Possibilities for Scholarly Podcasting, Panel #1

June 17, 2026

Audio and Ideas

Benjamen Walker, Mara Mills, and Fanny Gribenski

This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On May 13, 2026, Princeton’s Center for Human Values hosted a d…

Kristen Abbott Bennett, "Teaching Shakespeare's Theatre of the World" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

June 12, 2026

Teaching Shakespeare's Theatre of the World

Kristen Abbott Bennett
Hosted by John Yargo

Teaching Shakespeare's Theatre of the World (Cambridge University Press, 2025) engages with one of Shakespeare's greatest thought-experiments: How doe…

Natalia Rogach Alexander, "Growing People: The Enduring Legacy of John Dewey" (Columbia UP, 2025)

June 10, 2026

Growing People

Natalia Rogach Alexander

John Dewey is among history’s most celebrated thinkers on democracy and education, yet he has often been underappreciated and misunderstood as a …

Ladan Rahbari and Olga Burlyuk eds., "From the Margins: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity" (Open Book Publishers, 2026)

June 8, 2026

From the Margins

Ladan Rahbari and Olga Burlyuk eds.
Hosted by Amisah Bakuri

In this episode of the New Books Network, I spoke with Dr Olga Burlyuk and Dr Ladan Rahbari about their new edited volume, From the Margins: Migrant A…

Robert Grant, "Understanding Sensory Differences: A Neurodiversity Affirming Guidebook for Children and Teens" (2022)

June 7, 2026

Understanding Sensory Differences

Robert Grant
Hosted by Helena Vissing

Children and teens who experience sensory differences often find it difficult to understand their sensory system and sensory/regulation needs they may…

Mary R. Lanni, "Using Nursery Rhymes with Today’s Kids: Their Legacy and Evolution" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

June 4, 2026

Using Nursery Rhymes with Today’s Kids

Mary R. Lanni
Hosted by Mel Rosenberg

In this illuminating conversation with librarian-author Mary R. Lanni, we celebrate her brand new book, Using Nursery Rhymes with Today’s Kids: Their …

Romani Grassroots Language Learning

June 3, 2026

Romani Grassroots Language Learning

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Emily Pacheco speaks with Dr Santiago Betancor Falcón (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, …

Julie J. Park, "Race, Class, and Affirmative Action: College Admissions in a New Era" (Harvard Education Press, 2026)

May 31, 2026

Race, Class, and Affirmative Action

Julie J. Park
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

In Race, Class, and Affirmative Action: College Admissions in a New Era (Harvard Education Press, 2026), Julie J. Park offers deft analysis of the cha…

Learning Languages on Social Media

May 26, 2026

Learning Languages on Social Media

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Yeong Ju Lee about her new book Social Media and Language Learning: …

Claudia Smith Brinson, "Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina" (U South Carolina Press, 2020)

May 25, 2026

Stories of Struggle

Claudia Smith Brinson
Hosted by Matt Simmons

In Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina (U South Carolina Press, 2020), longtime journalist Claudia Smith Brinson detail…

Barry Devine and Ellen Scheible eds., "Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century" (UP of Florida, 2025)

May 23, 2026

Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century

Barry Devine and Ellen Scheible eds.
Hosted by Daniel Moran

A guide for today’s classrooms, this collection from leading Joyce scholars explores innovative pedagogical approaches to the works of this often-chal…

Reflection-In-Motion

May 14, 2026

Reflection-In-Motion

Jaclyn Fiscus-Cannaday

Reflection-in-Motion: Reimagining Reflection in the Writing Classroom (Utah State UP, 2025) considers how reflective practice is embedded in daily cou…

Fabio Rojas, "From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline" (JHU Press, 2010)

May 13, 2026

From Black Power to Black Studies

Fabio Rojas

The black power movement helped redefine African Americans' identity and establish a new racial consciousness in the 1960s. As an influential politica…

Brenda Boyle, "American War Stories" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

May 10, 2026

American War Stories

Brenda M. Boyle
Hosted by John Armenta

In American War Stories (Rutgers UP, 2021) Brenda Boyle examines how the story of war is told in the Unites States and how these stories of war work t…