Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAthene Donald, "Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 127
Why are girls discouraged from doing science? Why do so many promising women leave science in early and mid-career? Why do women not prosper in the s…
3 years ago
Myra Strober and Abby Davisson, "Money and Love: An Intelligent Roadmap for Life's Biggest Decisions" (HarperOne, 2023)
Episode 22
Should we separate decisions related to love and money, approaching finance and career-related decisions solely in a rational way while relying more …
3 years ago
Amanda Apgar, "The Disabled Child: Memoirs of a Normal Future" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Episode 20
When children are born with disabilities or become disabled in childhood, parents often experience bewilderment: they find themselves unexpectedly in…
3 years ago
Philip Kitcher, "What's the Use of Philosophy?' (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 383
In What's the Use of Philosophy? (Oxford UP, 2023), Philip Kitcher here grapples with an essential philosophical question: what the point of philosop…
3 years ago
Ian M. Cook, "Scholarly Podcasting: Why, What, How" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 20
Exploring what academic podcasting is and what it could be, Ian Cook's Scholarly Podcasting (Routledge, 2023) is the first to consider the why, what,…
3 years ago
Embodied and Trauma-Aware Pedagogy
Episode 98
In this episode I sit down with Frances Garrett, a scholar of Tibetan culture, history, and language. We talk about Frances’s interests in embodiment…
3 years ago
Jen 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…
3 years 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…
3 years 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…
3 years 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…
3 years, 1 month ago