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Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity Through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play
Episode 8
Chris Gondek interviews Mitchel Resnick about his work at the MIT Media Lab, the foundation for his new book, Lifelong Kindergarten.
In kindergartens …
3 years, 1 month ago
Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces: Diversity and Free Expression in Education
Episode 7
In this episode, Chris Gondek interviews author John Palfrey about how diversity and free expression can coexist on a modern campus.
Safe spaces, trig…
3 years, 1 month ago
Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, "Decolonizing American Spanish: Eurocentrism and the Limits of Foreignness in the Imperial Ecosystem" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)
Episode 105
Jeffrey joins the podcast to discuss the prevalence of English in the academic ecosystem and in research publishing. Jeffrey critiques the lackadaisi…
3 years, 1 month ago
Stephen E. Neaderhiser, "Writing the Classroom: Pedagogical Documents As Rhetorical Genres" (Utah State UP, 2022)
Episode 190
Writing the Classroom: Pedagogical Documents As Rhetorical Genres (UP of Colorado, 2022) explores how faculty compose and use pedagogical documents t…
3 years, 1 month ago
The Iko-Project: A Japanese Project on Intercultural Understanding Education
Episode 170
What can a classroom experiment teach us about how and when we start shaping our ideas of ‘the other’? Can the results from such an experiment help u…
3 years, 1 month ago
Are We Done with Higher Education Rankings?
Episode 149
Why do most of the institutions of higher education in the United States participate in a rankings system? What do the rankings do? And what does it …
3 years, 1 month ago
Saida Grundy, "Respectable: Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse Man" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 364
How does it feel to be groomed as the "solution" to a national Black male "problem"? This is the guiding paradox of Respectable: Politics and Paradox…
3 years, 2 months ago
Jonathan W. White and Lydia J. Davis, ed., "My Work Among the Freedmen: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss" (U Virginia Press, 2021)
Episode 362
Between 1863 and 1871, Harriet M. Buss of Sterling, Massachusetts, taught former slaves in three different regions of the South, in coastal South Car…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Connected PhD, Part Two
Episode 136
How can PhD programs prepare graduate students for future paths beyond academia? This episode explores:
The positive effect on students when they are…3 years, 2 months ago
Sara Pugach, "African Students in East Germany, 1949-1975" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
Episode 144
Sara Pugach's African Students in East Germany, 1949-1975 (U Michigan Press, 2022)explores the largely unexamined history of Africans who lived, stud…
3 years, 2 months ago