Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKathryn Fishman-Weaver and Jill Clingan, "Teaching Women's and Gender Studies (Grades 9-12)" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 225
Incorporate Women’s and Gender Studies into your middle school classroom using the powerful lesson plans in this book. In Kathryn Fishman-Weaver and …
2 years, 5 months ago
Kathryn Fishman-Weaver and Jill Clingan, "Teaching Women's and Gender Studies (Grades 6-8)" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 224
Incorporate Women’s and Gender Studies into your middle school classroom using the powerful lesson plans in this book. In Kathryn Fishman-Weaver and …
2 years, 5 months ago
Black and Queer on Campus
Episode 197
Today’s book is: Black and Queer on Campus (NYU Press, 2023) by Michael P. Jeffries, which offers an inside look at what life is like for LGBTQ colle…
2 years, 5 months ago
Marcy Simons, "Academic Librarianship: Anchoring the Profession in Contribution, Scholarship, and Service" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
Episode 37
Academic Librarianship: Anchoring the Profession in Contribution, Scholarship, and Service (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) by Marcy Simons is needed now…
2 years, 5 months ago
Sandro R. Barros et al., "The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas: Queering Literature, Politics, and the Activist Curriculum" (U Florida Press, 2022)
Episode 205
Focusing on the didactic nature of the work of Reinaldo Arenas, The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas: Queering Literature, Politics, and the Activist Cu…
2 years, 5 months ago
Christopher R. Martin, "No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Episode 142
Until the recent political shift pushed workers back into the media spotlight, the mainstream media had largely ignored this significant part of Amer…
2 years, 5 months ago
Robert N. Gross, “Public vs. Private: The Early History of School Choice in America” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Episode 434
There are numerous political debates about education policy today, but some of the most heated surround vouchers, charter schools, and other question…
2 years, 5 months ago
Lee McIntyre, "The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience" (MIT Press, 2019)
Episode 108
What can explain the success of science as an endeavor for getting closer to truth? Does science simply represent a successful methodology, or is it …
2 years, 5 months ago
Kevin Hood Gary, "Why Boredom Matters: Education, Leisure, and the Quest for a Meaningful Life" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 223
Boredom is an enduring problem. In response, schools often do one or both of the following: first, they endorse what novelist Walker Percy describes …
2 years, 6 months ago
Claudia Smith Brinson, "Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina" (U South Carolina Press, 2020)
Episode 61
In Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina (U South Carolina Press, 2020), longtime journalist Claudia Smith Brinson detai…
2 years, 6 months ago