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, 4 months ago
Mark R. Warren, "Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 199
The story of how Black and Brown parents, students and members of low-income communities of color organized to dismantle the school-to-prison pipelin…
3 years, 4 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 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…
3 years, 5 months ago
Educating for Solitude: A Conversation with William Deresiewicz
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, 5 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…
3 years, 5 months ago