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Back to SearchSchool Authority, Parents' Rights: Rita Koganzon on Early Modern Education
Episode 71
Americans have always had mixed emotions about schooling: in popular literature and television, teachers are often depicted as tyrannical authorities…
3 years, 1 month ago
School Authority, Parents' Rights: Rita Koganzon on Early Modern Education
Episode 71
Americans have always had mixed emotions about schooling: in popular literature and television, teachers are often depicted as tyrannical authorities…
3 years, 1 month ago
Joyce Kinkead, "A Writing Studies Primer" (Broadview Press, 2022)
Episode 215
Dr. Joyce Kinkead, Distinguished Professor of English at Utah State University discusses her recent book, A Writing Studies Primer (Broadview Press. …
3 years, 1 month ago
Reinhold Martin, "Knowledge Worlds: Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Episode 85
What do the technical practices, procedures, and systems that have shaped institutions of higher learning in the United States, from the Ivy League a…
3 years, 1 month ago
Education in the World not of the World
Episode 45
Rich Meyer, president of JSerra High School—named for St. Junípero Serra, the ‘Apostle of California’—in Southern California, discusses what is worki…
3 years, 1 month ago
Megan Swift, "Picturing the Page: Illustrated Children’s Literature and Reading under Lenin and Stalin" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Episode 228
Based on sources from rare book libraries in Russia and around the world, Picturing the Page: Illustrated Children’s Literature and Reading under Len…
3 years, 1 month ago
Liz Curran, "Better Law for a Better World: New Approaches to Law Practice and Education" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 184
In Better Law for a Better World: New Approaches to Law Practice and Education (Routledge, 2021) I spoke with Dr Liz Curran about the urgent need for…
3 years, 1 month ago
Hilary Falb Kalisman, "Teachers as State-Builders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 211
Today, it is hard to imagine a time and place when public school teachers were considered among the elite strata of society. But in the lands control…
3 years, 1 month ago
Bradford Vivian, "Campus Misinformation: The Real Threat to Free Speech in American Higher Education" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 191
If we listen to the politicians and pundits, college campuses have become fiercely ideological spaces where students unthinkingly endorse a liberal o…
3 years, 1 month ago
The Hippie High-Rise: Rochdale College, Toronto’s Communal Living High Rise Free Education Experiment
Episode 51
From 1968 to 1975 one high-rise was the heart of Canada’s counterculture. Rochdale College in Toronto was jammed full with leftist organizers, hippie…
3 years, 1 month ago