Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKathleen McGoey and Lindsey Pointer, "Little Book of Restorative Teaching Tools for Online Learning: Games and Activities for Restorative Justice Practitioners" (Good Books, 2024)
Episode 191
Teaching, training, and gathering online has become a global norm since 2020. Restorative practitioners have risen to the challenge to shift restorat…
1 year, 6 months ago
Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age
Episode 83
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Meryl Alper, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, about her recent …
1 year, 6 months ago
Sarah M. Stitzlein, "Teaching Honesty in a Populist Era: Emphasizing Truth in the Education of Citizens" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 241
Democracy is struggling in an age of populism and post-truth. In a world swirling with competing political groups stating conflicting facts, citizens…
1 year, 6 months ago
Keith E. Whittington, "You Can't Teach That!: The Battle over University Classrooms" (Polity Press, 2024)
Episode 190
Who controls what is taught in American universities – professors or politicians? The answer is far from clear but suddenly urgent. Unprecedented eff…
1 year, 6 months ago
Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action
Episode 232
Today’s book is: Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action (University of Roch…
1 year, 6 months ago
Free Speech 70: Michael S. Roth on the Rise of Student Protests, the Fall of Some College Presidents, and Why Liberal Education Matters
Episode 135
The campus protests over conflict in Israel and Gaza have engulfed universities, and led to the resignation of several university presidents. In this…
1 year, 7 months ago
Caitlin Gerrity and Scott Lanning, "Conducting Original Research for Your Library" (Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited, 2024)
Episode 73
Conducting Original Research for Your Library (Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited, 2024) is a concise manual for professionals in the field, this book he…
1 year, 7 months ago
William H. F. Altman, "Plato the Teacher: The Crisis of the Republic" (Lexington, 2012)
Episode 33
In Plato the Teacher: The Crisis of the Republic (Lexington, 2012), William Altman shines a light on the pedagogical technique of the playful Plato, …
1 year, 7 months ago
Wayne A. Wiegand, "In Silence or Indifference: Racism and Jim Crow Segregated Public School Libraries" (UP of Mississippi, 2024)
Episode 72
Librarians around the country are currently on a battleground, defending their right to purchase and circulate books dealing with issues of race and …
1 year, 7 months ago
Sivan Zakai and Matt Reingold, "Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field" (Brandeis UP, 2023)
Episode 547
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 discussi…
1 year, 7 months ago