Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNeil Kraus, "The Fantasy Economy: Neoliberalism, Inequality, and the Education Reform Movement" (Temple UP, 2023)
Wage stagnation, growing inequality, and even poverty itself have resulted from decades of neoliberal decision making, not the education system, writ…
1 year, 2 months ago
Aaron Kupchik, "Suspended Education: School Punishment and the Legacy of Racial Injustice" (NYU Press, 2025)
Episode 249
Every year, millions of public school students are suspended. This overused punishment removes students from the classroom, but it does not improve t…
1 year, 2 months ago
Katherine Ngo, "Unlocking the Treasury: Elementary Learning for Boys in Qing China" (Lever Press, 2025)
How did young boys in premodern China learn? What educational texts did they use? What values informed their education? Katherine Ngo’s new book Unlo…
1 year, 2 months ago
From Awareness to Action: A Conversation with Nancy Ceulemans on Understanding Children's Behavior
What if the key to understanding your child’s toughest behaviors isn’t just about discipline or routines – but about how their body and brain are pro…
1 year, 2 months ago
Postscript: Collective Action to Support Students at American Colleges and Universities
Episode 39
A coalition of educators and allies has come together to push back against a variety of different kinds of attacks on higher education and students a…
1 year, 2 months ago
Teaching International Students in Australia
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr Agi Bodis and Dr Jing Fang about international tertiary students in A…
1 year, 2 months ago
David Oakeshott, "Schooling, Conflict and Peace in the Southwestern Pacific: Becoming Enemy Friends" (Bristol UP, 2024)
Episode 94
Bringing concepts from critical transitional justice and peacebuilding into dialogue with education, Schooling, Conflict and Peace in the Southwester…
1 year, 3 months ago
Teaching With Positive Psychology Skills
Episode 253
Studies show that students who have a positive outlook on their lives outperform students who don’t. Is positive thinking a skill? Can it be taught?
O…
1 year, 3 months ago
Chris Higgins, "Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 250
Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education (MIT Press, 2024) is an imaginative tour of the contemporary university as it could be: a plac…
1 year, 3 months ago
Lisa Kallman Hopkins and Bridgit McCafferty, "Innovative Library Workplaces: Transformative Human Resource Strategies" (ACRL, 2025)
Episode 86
Good workplaces require both autonomy--giving employees a sense of ownership over how and where they work--and collaboration in pursuit of common goa…
1 year, 3 months ago