Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLandon Mascareñaz and Doannie Tran, "The Open System: Redesigning Education and Reigniting Democracy" ((Harvard Education Press, 2023)
Episode 206
Landon Mascareñaz and Doannie Tran propose that, even as events of this decade have exposed stress points in existing top-down, closed systems within…
2 years, 10 months ago
Jack Cohen and Yosef Lynn, "Nurture Their Nature: The Torah’s Essential Guidance for Parents and Teachers" (Mosaica Press, 2021)
Episode 424
Embark on a journey of self-discovery and empowerment with Nurture their Nature; The Torah’s Essential Guidance for Parents and Teachers (Mosaica Pre…
2 years, 10 months ago
Alelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and Universities
Episode 129
The vast majority of American college students attend two thousand or so private and public institutions that might be described as the Middle—reputa…
2 years, 10 months ago
Steve Mentz, "An Introduction to the Blue Humanities" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 69
An Introduction to the Blue Humanities (Routledge, 2023) is the first textbook to explore the many ways humans engage with water, utilizing literary,…
2 years, 11 months ago
Syed Ali and Margaret M. Chin, "The Peer Effect: How Your Peers Shape Who You Are and Who You Will Become" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 302
For decades, parents across America have asked their kids, “If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?” The answer is, “Duh, yes.” Peers, as par…
2 years, 11 months ago
Margareta von Oswald and Jonas Tinius, "Awkward Archives: Ethnographic Drafts for a Modular Curriculum" (Archive Books, 2022)
Episode 241
Awkward Archives: Ethnographic Drafts for a Modular Curriculum (Archive Books, 2022) proposes a manual for academic teaching and learning contexts. A…
2 years, 11 months ago
Juliet Schor, "After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back" (U California Press, 2021)
Episode 205
When the "sharing economy" launched a decade ago, proponents claimed that it would transform the experience of work--giving earners flexibility, auto…
2 years, 11 months ago
Phoebe Ho et al., "Diversity and the Transition to Adulthood in America" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 204
How do children and adolescents transition to adulthood in today’s America? How have American society’s entrenching economic inequality and increasin…
2 years, 11 months ago
Yi-Lin Chiang, "Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 203
We understand very little about how elite individuals and families operate in everyday life to maintain their privileged statuses, as many of these s…
2 years, 11 months ago
Adhaar Noor Desai, "Blotted Lines: Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Discomposition" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 228
Almost every student that will enroll in a college Shakespeare course can expect two things. Students will have to engage with the style and themes o…
2 years, 11 months ago