Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchChristian Ydesen, "The OECD’s Historical Rise in Education: The Formation of a Global Governing Complex" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Episode 139
In 1961, it was famously declared that the “fight for education is too important to be left solely to the educators.” Enter the OECD. In The OECD’s H…
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Christina R. Foust et al., "What Democracy Looks Like: The Rhetoric of Social Movements and Counterpublics" (U Alabama Press, 2017)
Episode 133
Recent protests around the world (such as the Arab Spring uprisings and Occupy Wall Street movements) have drawn renewed interest to the study of soc…
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Teaching First-Year and First-Generation Students: A Conversation with Lisa Nunn
Episode 57
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bri…
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What Can Wittgenstein Teach Us About Raising Our Kids?: A Discussion with Ryan Ruby
Episode 8
Ryan Ruby is a writer and translator from Los Angeles, California. His fiction and criticism have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Paris…
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Nicholas Harrison, "Our Civilizing Mission: The Lessons of Colonial Education" (Liverpool UP, 2019)
Episode 85
Nicholas Harrison's Our Civilizing Mission: The Lessons of Colonial Education (Liverpool UP, 2019) is a fascinating examination of colonial education…
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An Interview with Bob Fisher: Former President, Belmont University
Episode 23
Bob Fisher earned the moniker “Bob the Builder” by spearheading over $1 billion in new construction during his 21-year tenure at Belmont University. …
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Gert Biesta, "Obstinate Education: Reconnecting School and Society" (Brill, 2019)
Episode 137
What should the relationship between school and society be? Obstinate Education: Reconnecting School and Society (Brill, 2019) argues that education …
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Funké Aladejebi, "Schooling the System: A History of Black Women Teachers" (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021)
Episode 1026
In post-World War II Canada, black women’s positions within the teaching profession served as sites of struggle and conflict as the nation worked to …
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Rachel S. Buurma and Laura Heffernan, "The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Episode 27
Listen to this interview of Rachel Sagner Buurma (associate professor of English literature at Swarthmore College) and Laura Heffernan (associate pro…
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An Interview with Paul LeBlanc: President, Southern New Hampshire University
Episode 22
When Paul LeBlanc arrived at Southern New Hampshire University in 2003 it had just attained university-status and begun a few online degrees to suppl…
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