Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Path to a New Learning Paradigm: A Conversation with Sophie Adelman
Episode 93
Sophie Adelman is the co-founder of Multiverse and The Garden, two companies that are innovating the way people learn and enhance their personal skil…
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Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan, "The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Episode 147
Rachel Buurma and Laura Heffernan's The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study (University of Chicago Press, 2020) is an excavation of a …
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Shoko Yamada, "Dignity of Labour for African Leaders: The Formation of Education Policy in the British Colonial Office and Achimota School" (Langaa RPCIG, 2018)
Episode 133
The Prince of Wales College, Achimota School, opened in 1927 north of Accra in the Gold Coast (Ghana). Achimota was to be a ‘model’ school—but a mode…
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Sean J. Drake, "Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 298
In Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb (U California Press, 2022), sociologist Sean J. Drake addresses …
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Ellen Schrecker, "The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Episode 1204
The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s (University of Chicago Press, 2021) is a magisterial examination of the turmoil that rocked Amer…
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Roslyn Petelin, "How Writing Works: A Field Guide to Effective Writing" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 62
Listen to this interview of Roslyn Petelin, Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia. We talk about her book How Writi…
4 years, 1 month ago
On Teaching Religion in High School
Season 1 Episode 90
George Coe is a religious studies, current events, and world history teacher in Fairfax County, Virginia. He runs a popular blog with teaching resour…
4 years, 1 month ago
Pandemic Perspectives 11: The Covid Pandemic and Learning about Learning
Episode 119
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to renowned cognitive psychologist Stephen Kosslyn about h…
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Higher Education and the Humble Brag: A Discussion with Adrien Lenardic
Episode 6
In today’s episode of How To Be Wrong we welcome Adrian Lenardic, who is a professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences…
4 years, 1 month ago
A Conversation with Mark Nordenberg: Chancellor Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh (Part 2 of 2)
Episode 48
We continue our discussion with Mark Nordenberg, who shares lessons from his successful 19 year tenure as Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh …
4 years, 1 month ago