Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMatthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti, "Love, Money, and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 146
Parents everywhere want their children to be happy and do well. Yet how parents seek to achieve this ambition varies enormously. For instance, Americ…
2 years, 3 months ago
Flora Lu and Emily Murai, "Critical Campus Sustainabilities: Bridging Social Justice and the Environment in Higher Education" (Springer, 2023)
Episode 110
In response to student demands reflecting the urgency of societal and ecological problems, universities are making a burgeoning effort to infuse envi…
2 years, 3 months ago
Freedom in the Academy: A Conversation with Niall Ferguson
Episode 98
Finishing off our series on freedom of speech, renowned historian Niall Ferguson discusses ideological conflict both between America and China and wi…
2 years, 3 months ago
Derron Wallace, "The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 438
How does race matter in schools? In The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth (Oxford UP, 2023), Derron Wallace, th…
2 years, 3 months ago
Horace J. Maxile, Jr. and Kristen M. Turner, "Race and Gender in the Western Music History Survey: A Teacher's Guide" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 223
Race and Gender in the Western Music History Survey: A Teacher’s Guide provides concrete information and approaches that will help instructors includ…
2 years, 4 months ago
How to Teach TESOL Ethically in an English-Dominant World
Episode 6
Carla Chamberlin and Mak Khan speak with Ingrid Piller about linguistic diversity and social justice.
We discuss whether US native speakers of English…
2 years, 4 months ago
Mirelsie Velazquez, "Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940-1977" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Episode 228
The postwar migration of Puerto Rican men and women to Chicago brought thousands of their children into city schools. These children's classroom expe…
2 years, 4 months ago
Max Felker-Kantor, "DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools" (UNC Press, 2023)
Episode 22
With its signature "DARE to keep kids off drugs" slogan and iconic t-shirts, DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) was the most popular drug educati…
2 years, 4 months ago
Patrick Gamsby, "The Discourse of Scholarly Communication" (Lexington Books, 2023)
Episode 42
The Discourse of Scholarly Communication (Lexington Books, 2023) examines the place and purpose of modern scholarship and its dialectical relationshi…
2 years, 4 months ago
James S. Damico and Mark C. Baildon, "How to Confront Climate Denial: Literacy, Social Studies, and Climate Change" (Teachers College Press, 2022)
Episode 227
Climate change and climate denial have remained largely off the radar in literacy and social studies education in the United States. How to Confront …
2 years, 4 months ago