Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLauren D. Olsen, "Curricular Injustice: How U.S. Medical Schools Reproduce Inequalities" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 226
Medical schools have increasingly incorporated the humanities and social sciences into their teaching, seeking to make future physicians more empathe…
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Supporting Multilingual Families to Engage with their Children’s Schooling
Episode 123
How can school communications become more accessible to multilingual families? In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Dr Agnes Bodis ta…
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Domingo Morel, "Developing Scholars: Race, Politics, and the Pursuit of Higher Education" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 195
Over the past fifty years, debates concerning race and college admissions have focused primarily on the policy of affirmative action at elite institu…
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Andrew Stone Higgins, "Higher Education for All: Racial Inequality, Cold War Liberalism, and the California Master Plan" (UNC Press, 2023)
Episode 242
The 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education remains to this day the largest and most ambitious attempt to provide free, universal college ed…
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Agustina Paglayan, "Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 109
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 ever…
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Janusz Korczak, "How to Love a Child and Other Selected Works" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2018)
Episode 568
How to Love a Child and Other Selected Works (Vallentine Mitchell, 2018) is the first comprehensive collection of Korczak's works translated into Eng…
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Donna J. Nicol, "Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action" (U Rochester Press, 2024)
Episode 1495
Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action (University of Rochester Press, 2024…
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Why Not Be Kind?: A Discussion with Catherine J. Denial
Episode 239
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 lar…
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Celebrating University Press Week with AUPresses President, Anthony Cond
Episode 211
The Association of University Presses (AUPresses), a global organization of 161 mission-driven publishers, is proud to announce a collection of 123 b…
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Filippo Gianferrari, "Dante's Education: Latin Schoolbooks and Vernacular Poetics" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 81
In fourteenth-century Italy, literacy became accessible to a significantly larger portion of the lay population (allegedly between 60 and 80 percent …
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