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Almost Good Catholics March 23, 2023

Education in the World not of the World

A Catholic School Director and Father Talks about Forming the Whole Child

Rich Meyer

Hosted by Krzysztof Odyniec
Rich Meyer, president of JSerra High School—named for St. Junípero Serra, the ‘Apostle of California’—in Southern California, discusses what is working in Catholic education today. He and I are both …

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Interviews with scholars of education about their new books.

Law March 20, 2023

Better Law for a Better World

New Approaches to Law Practice and Education

Liz Curran

Hosted by Jane Richards
In Better Law for a Better World: New Approaches to Law Practice and Education (Routledge, 2021) I spoke with Dr Liz Curran about the urgent need for innovation in law, legal practice, and legal …
Russian and Eurasian Studies March 20, 2023

Picturing the Page

Illustrated Children’s Literature and Reading under Lenin and Stalin

Megan Swift

Hosted by Polina Popova
Based on sources from rare book libraries in Russia and around the world, Picturing the Page: Illustrated Children’s Literature and Reading under Lenin and Stalin (U Toronto Press, 2020) offers …
Education March 15, 2023

Campus Misinformation

The Real Threat to Free Speech in American Higher Education

Bradford Vivian

Hosted by Thomas Discenna
If we listen to the politicians and pundits, college campuses have become fiercely ideological spaces where students unthinkingly endorse a liberal orthodoxy and forcibly silence anyone who dares to disagree …
Middle Eastern Studies March 15, 2023

Teachers as State-Builders

Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Hilary Falb Kalisman

Hosted by Reuben Silverman
Today, it is hard to imagine a time and place when public school teachers were considered among the elite strata of society. But in the lands controlled by the Ottomans …
Political Science March 14, 2023

Strategies for Navigating Graduate School and Beyond

Kevin G. Lorentz, Daniel J. Mallinson, and Julia Marin Hellwege

Hosted by Lilly Goren
This new compendium, Strategies for Navigating Graduate School and Beyond, is a true asset to the discipline of Political Science (and other graduate programs as well) in the myriad ways …
Darts & Letters March 14, 2023

The Hippie High-Rise

Rochdale College, Toronto’s Communal Living High Rise Free Education Experiment

Marc Apollonio

Hosted by Marc Apollonio
From 1968 to 1975 one high-rise was the heart of Canada’s counterculture. Rochdale College in Toronto was jammed full with leftist organizers, hippies, draft dodgers, students, artists, and others just …
MIT Press Podcast March 6, 2023

Lifelong Kindergarten

Cultivating Creativity Through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play

Mitchel Resnick

Hosted by MIT Press
Chris Gondek interviews Mitchel Resnick about his work at the MIT Media Lab, the foundation for his new book, Lifelong Kindergarten. In kindergartens these days, children spend more time with …
MIT Press Podcast March 5, 2023

Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces

Diversity and Free Expression in Education

John Palfrey

Hosted by MIT Press
In this episode, Chris Gondek interviews author John Palfrey about how diversity and free expression can coexist on a modern campus. Safe spaces, trigger warnings, microaggressions, the disinvitation of speakers …
Scholarly Communication March 4, 2023

Decolonizing American Spanish

Eurocentrism and the Limits of Foreignness in the Imperial Ecosystem

Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera

Hosted by Avi Staiman
Jeffrey joins the podcast to discuss the prevalence of English in the academic ecosystem and in research publishing. Jeffrey critiques the lackadaisical approach US institutions take towards Spanish language content …
Education March 4, 2023

Writing the Classroom

Pedagogical Documents As Rhetorical Genres

Stephen E. Neaderhiser

Hosted by Gargi Binju
Writing the Classroom: Pedagogical Documents As Rhetorical Genres (UP of Colorado, 2022) explores how faculty compose and use pedagogical documents to establish classroom expectations and teaching practices, as well as to …
Nordic Asia Podcast March 3, 2023

The Iko-Project

A Japanese Project on Intercultural Understanding Education

Marie Roesgaard

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
What can a classroom experiment teach us about how and when we start shaping our ideas of ‘the other’? Can the results from such an experiment help us challenge the …
Academic Life March 2, 2023

Are We Done with Higher Education Rankings?

A Discussion with Francie Diep

Francie Diep

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Why do most of the institutions of higher education in the United States participate in a rankings system? What do the rankings do? And what does it mean when some …
African American Studies February 28, 2023

Respectable

Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse Man

Saida Grundy

Hosted by Mickell Carter
How does it feel to be groomed as the "solution" to a national Black male "problem"? This is the guiding paradox of Respectable: Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse …
African American Studies February 26, 2023

My Work Among the Freedmen

The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss

Jonathan W. White and Lydia J. Davis, editors

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Between 1863 and 1871, Harriet M. Buss of Sterling, Massachusetts, taught former slaves in three different regions of the South, in coastal South Carolina, Norfolk, Virginia, and Raleigh, North Carolina …
Academic Life February 23, 2023

The Connected PhD, Part Two

A Discussion with Alyssa Stalsberg Canelli and Anna Valcour

Alyssa Stalsberg Canelli and Anna Valcour

Hosted by Christina Gessler
How can PhD programs prepare graduate students for future paths beyond academia? This episode explores: The positive effect on students when they are prepared to graduate with multiple career options …
German Studies February 17, 2023

African Students in East Germany, 1949-1975

Sara Pugach

Hosted by Nicole Coleman
Sara Pugach's African Students in East Germany, 1949-1975 (U Michigan Press, 2022) explores the largely unexamined history of Africans who lived, studied, and worked in the German Democratic Republic. African students …
Academic Life February 16, 2023

A Primer for Teaching Digital History

Ten Design Principles

Jennifer Guiliano

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Today’s book is: A Primer for Teaching Digital History: Ten Design Principles (Duke UP, 2022), which is a guide for those who are teaching digital history for the first time …
Women's History February 16, 2023

Teaching Empire

Native Americans, Filipinos, and Us Imperial Education 1879-1918

Elisabeth Eittreim

Hosted by Jane Scimeca
At the turn of the twentieth century, the US government viewed education as one sure way of civilizing “others” under its sway—among them American Indians and, after 1898, Filipinos. Teaching …
Peoples & Things February 14, 2023

The History of Student Loans in the United States

A Discussion with Elizabeth Tandy Shermer

Elizabeth Tandy Shermer

Hosted by Lee Vinsel
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, an associate professor of history at Loyola University Chicago, talks about her book, Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in Debt, with Peoples & Things …