Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJen Ross, "Digital Futures for Learning: Speculative Methods and Pedagogies" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 382
What is the future of education? In Digital Futures for Learning: Speculative Methods and Pedagogies (Routledge, 2022), Jen Ross, a senior lecturer i…
2 years, 10 months ago
Philip Kirby and Margaret J. Snowling, "Dyslexia: A History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
Episode 19
In 1896 the British physician William Pringle Morgan published an account of “Percy,” a “bright and intelligent boy, quick at games, and in no way in…
2 years, 10 months ago
Educating for Solitude: A Conversation with William Deresiewicz
Season 2 Episode 67
What kind of person is our education system designed to create? Best-selling author and award-winning essayist William Deresiewicz discusses the fail…
2 years, 11 months ago
Yang Va Lor, "Unequal Choices: How Social Class Shapes Where High-Achieving Students Apply to College" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Episode 65
High-achieving students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to end up at less selective institutions compared to their s…
2 years, 11 months ago
Learning for Liberation: The Life and Legacy of Paulo Freire
Episode 55
Paulo Freire offers activists and academics everywhere a lesson in what it means to be a radical intellectual. He is known as the founder of critical…
2 years, 11 months ago
Assessing Affirmative Action: A Conversation with Jason Riley
Season 2 Episode 66
With the Supreme Court poised to potentially outlaw race-conscious admissions, Affirmative Action may soon be on the chopping block.
What will be the …
2 years, 11 months ago
Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow, "Say the Right Thing: How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice" (Atria Books, 2023)
Episode 105
In the current period of social and political unrest, conversations about identity are becoming more frequent and more difficult. On subjects like cr…
2 years, 11 months ago
Navigating the Community College Job Market
Episode 159
What makes a community college job interview different than one at a four-year college or a university? Do you need a PhD to get hired? What are they…
2 years, 11 months ago
May Hara and Annalee G. Good, "Teachers as Policy Advocates: Strategies for Collaboration and Change" (Teachers College Press, 2023)
Episode 198
May Hara and Annalee G. Good's Teachers as Policy Advocates: Strategies for Collaboration and Change (Teachers College Press, 2023) argues that teach…
2 years, 11 months ago
Money or Meaning? A Discussion on Choice and Restlessness with Ben and Jenna Storey
Season 2 Episode 60
What kinds of tools do we need to make big decisions, and why aren't our universities training us to make them? Are universities doing students a dis…
2 years, 11 months ago