Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDominique 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, 5 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 months ago
Gill Grose: A Volunteer Librarian Changing Lives in South Africa
Episode 34
Gill has been s a volunteer librarian at Claremont Primary School in Cape Town South Africa since 2010. Through her initiative she has been able to g…
4 years, 6 months ago
Sam de Muijnck and Joris Tieleman, "Economy Studies: A Guide to Rethinking Economics Education" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
Episode 85
The Economy Studies project emerged from the worldwide movement to modernise economics education, spurred on by the global financial crisis of 2008, …
4 years, 6 months ago
Wasif Rizvi: President of Habib University, Karachi, Pakistan
Episode 41
Wasif Rizvi is the founding president of Habib University, the first liberal arts institution in Pakistan. Planning for the University began in 2010,…
4 years, 6 months ago
Joanne W. Golann, "Scripting the Moves: Culture and Control in a "No-Excuses" Charter School" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 151
Ethnographer and sociologist Joanne Golann spent 18 months observing the day-to-day life of students and teachers in a “no-excuses” charter school. I…
4 years, 6 months ago