Podcast Episodes
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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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months ago
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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months ago