Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchClaire Nader, "You Are Your Own Best Teacher!: Sparking the Imagination and Intellect of Tweens" (Essential Books, 2022)
Episode 178
You Are Your Own Best Teacher!: Sparking the Imagination and Intellect of Tweens (Essential Books, 2022) provides a variety of teachable antidotes to…
4 years, 1 month ago
Decoteau Irby, "Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership" (Harvard Education Press, 2021)
Episode 322
An incisive case study of changemaking in action, Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership (Harvard Education Press, 2021) analyzes the c…
4 years, 1 month ago
Cassidy Puckett, "Redefining Geek: Bias and the Five Hidden Habits of Tech-Savvy Teens" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 177
Picture a typical computer geek. Likely white, male, and someone you’d say has a “natural instinct” for technology. Yet, after six years teaching tec…
4 years, 2 months ago
Opening Up the University for Displaced Students
Episode 123
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about:
The Open Learning Initiative (OLIve) operating out of Central European University. T…4 years, 2 months ago
Brian Cafarella, "Community College Mathematics: Past, Present, and Future" (CRC Press, 2022)
Episode 77
In Community College Mathematics: Past, Present, and Future (CRC Press, 2022), Brian Cafarella addresses the key questions: How can we build a future…
4 years, 2 months ago
The Journal of Higher Education in Prison
Episode 112
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about:
How both of today’s guests became involved in higher education in prison. Why this w…4 years, 2 months ago
Ann Garcia, "How to Pay for College: A Complete Financial Plan for Funding Your Child's Education" (Harriman House, 2022)
Episode 40
Providing your children with a good education is one of the best gifts you can give. But it’s not straightforward.
Education costs and student loan de…
4 years, 2 months ago
Tarez Samra Graban and Wendy Hayden, "Teaching Through the Archives: Text, Collaboration, and Activism" (Southern Illinois UP, 2022)
Episode 176
Archives are much more than silent repositories of historical material. They are rich sites for teaching and learning, for collaboration and for crea…
4 years, 2 months ago
Jo Mackiewicz and Isabelle Thompson, "Talk about Writing: The Tutoring Strategies of Experienced Writing Center Tutors" (Routledge, 2018)
Episode 78
Listen to this interview with Jo Mackiewicz, professor of rhetoric and professional communication at Iowa State University, and with Isabelle Thompso…
4 years, 2 months ago
Katherine L. Carroll, "Building Schools, Making Doctors: Architecture and the Modern American Physician" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)
Episode 168
In the late nineteenth century, medical educators intent on transforming American physicians into scientifically trained, elite professionals recogni…
4 years, 2 months ago