Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBayley J. Marquez, "Plantation Pedagogy: The Violence of Schooling Across Black and Indigenous Space" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 235
Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, teachers, administrators, and policymakers fashioned a system of industrial education that attempt…
2 years, 4 months ago
Jessica Lander, "Making Americans: Stories of Historic Struggles, New Ideas, and Inspiration in Immigrant Education" (Beacon Press, 2022)
Episode 234
A landmark work that weaves captivating stories about the past, present, and personal into an inspiring vision for how America can educate immigrant …
2 years, 4 months ago
Jin Feng, "The Transpacific Flow: Creative Writing Programs in China" (Association for Asian Studies, 2024)
Episode 192
In 2009, Fudan University launched China’s first MFA program in creative writing, spurring a wave of such programs in Chinese universities. Many of t…
2 years, 4 months ago
Jennifer C. Berkshire and Jack Schneider, "The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual" (The New Press, 2024)
Episode 233
A perfectly timed book for the educational resistance—those of us who believe in public schools Culture wars have engulfed our schools. Extremist gro…
2 years, 4 months ago
PhDing While Parenting
Episode 217
An increasing number of students worldwide attend graduate school while simultaneously navigating a variety of competing responsibilities in their pe…
2 years, 4 months ago
Michael V. Singh, "Good Boys, Bad Hombres: The Racial Politics of Mentoring Latino Boys in Schools" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Episode 232
The unintended consequences of youth empowerment programs for Latino boys Educational research has long documented the politics of punishment for boy…
2 years, 4 months ago
Sommer Browning and Isabel Soto-Luna, "Serving Hispanic, Latine, and Latinx Students in Academic Libraries" (Library Juice Press, 2022)
Episode 59
Serving Hispanic, Latine, and Latinx Students in Academic Libraries (Library Juice Press, 2024) is a collection of essays written by library workers …
2 years, 4 months ago
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, "Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America" (UNC Press, 2023)
Episode 74
Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren …
2 years, 4 months ago
Margaret A. Hagerman, "Children of a Troubled Time: Growing Up with Racism in Trump's America" (NYU Press, 2024)
Episode 365
Kids are at the center of today's "culture wars"--pundits, politicians, and parents alike are debating which books they should be allowed to read, wh…
2 years, 4 months ago
Nicholas 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, 4 months ago