Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNicholas Tampio, ed., "Democracy and Education" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 231
John Dewey's Democracy and Education (1916) transformed how people around the world view the purposes of schooling. This new edition makes Dewey's id…
2 years ago
Transforming Hispanic-Serving Institutions for Equity and Justice
Episode 218
What makes Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) uniquely Latinx? And how can university leaders, staff, and faculty transform these institutions into…
2 years ago
Chris Haufe, "Do the Humanities Create Knowledge?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 365
There is in certain circles a widely held belief that the only proper kind of knowledge is scientific knowledge. This belief often runs parallel to t…
2 years, 1 month ago
Larry Roeder and Barry Harrelson, "Dirt Don't Burn: A Black Community's Struggle for Educational Equality Under Segregation" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
Episode 461
The system of educational apartheid that existed in the United States until the Brown v. Board of Education decision and its aftermath has affected e…
2 years, 1 month ago
Bryan Hanson on Disrupting Academic Bullying
Episode 72
Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with Bryan Hanson, ombudsperson for Virginia Tech's Graduate School, about a program he developed called Disru…
2 years, 1 month ago
Danielle R. Olden, "Racial Uncertainties: Mexican Americans, School Desegregation, and the Making of Race in Post–Civil Rights America" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 161
Mexican Americans have often fit uncertainly into the white/non-white binary that has goverens much of American history. After Colorado, and much of …
2 years, 1 month ago
Jennifer Liu, "Indoctrinating the Youth: Secondary Education in Wartime China and Postwar Taiwan, 1937-1960" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
Episode 530
Indoctrinating the Youth: Secondary Education in Wartime China and Postwar Taiwan, 1937-1960 (U Hawaii Press, 2024) examines how the Guomindang (GMD …
2 years, 1 month ago
En Li, "Betting on the Civil Service Examinations: The Lottery in Late Qing China" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Episode 529
During the Qing dynasty in China, a wide variety of people participated in a lottery game named weixing (“surname guessing”), which had participants …
2 years, 1 month ago
Matthew Berland and Antero Garcia, "The Left Hand of Data: Designing Education Data for Justice" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 56
Educational analytics tend toward aggregation, asking what a “normative” learner does. In The Left Hand of Data: Designing Education Data for Justice…
2 years, 1 month ago
Ketaki Chowkhani, "The Limits of Sexuality Education: Love, Sex, and Adolescent Masculinities in Urban India" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 358
The Limits of Sexuality Education: Love, Sex, and Adolescent Masculinities in Urban India (Routledge, 2024) explores different strands of thinking ab…
2 years, 1 month ago