Podcast Episodes
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Episode 82
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about:
The hidden curriculum of transforming yourself from student to teacher Accepting and…4 years, 3 months ago
How World Events are Changing Education
Episode 58
Formal education became widespread only as recently as the end of the 19th century, as a way to train people for jobs created by the boom in industri…
4 years, 3 months ago
Being Well in Academia: A Candid Conversation About Challenges and Connection
Episode 81
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about:
The other hidden curriculum: the support and care strategies necessary for being wel…4 years, 3 months ago
Yuka Hiruma Kishida, "Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism: Education in the Japanese Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Episode 64
Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism: Education in the Japanese Empire (Bloomsbury, 2019) by Yuka Kiruma Kishida makes a fresh contr…
4 years, 3 months ago
Dominique Townsend, "A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Episode 83
Founded in 1676 during a cosmopolitan early modern period, Mindröling monastery became a key site for Buddhist education and a Tibetan civilizational…
4 years, 3 months ago
Exploring Science Literacy and Public Engagement with Science
Episode 44
Listen to this interview of Ayelet Baram-Tsabari. We talk about the accessibility of science using Google to scholars and students in languages beyon…
4 years, 4 months ago
Curriculum and Learning for Climate Action
Episode 61
Education is one of our main weapons in the fight against climate change. The need of the hour, therefore, is to enhance the world’s commitment to cl…
4 years, 4 months ago
Joyce W. Nutta, "English Learners at Home and at School: Stories and Strategies" (Harvard Education Press, 2021)
Episode 153
This episode of the New Books in Education features English Learners at Home and at School: Stories and Strategies (Harvard Education Press, 2021), b…
4 years, 4 months ago
Patricia Gándara and Jongyeon Ee, "Schools Under Siege: The Impact of Immigration Enforcement on Educational Equity" (Harvard Education Press, 2021)
Episode 152
Much has been reported and discussed about the hotly debated issue of immigration enforcement, yet a question is still to be explored: What is the im…
4 years, 4 months ago
Joyce W. Nutta, "English Learners at Home and at School: Stories and Strategies" (Harvard Education Press, 2021)
Episode 256
In Intersectionality in the Muslim South Asian-American Middle Class: Lifestyle Consumption beyond Halal and Hijab (Lexington Books, 2021), wherein T…
4 years, 4 months ago