New Books in Education

Interviews with Scholars of Education about their New Books

Science
Social Sciences
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Matthew H. Rafalow, "Digital Divisions: How Sch...
Rafalow provides an ethnographic study of students and teachers at three Los Angeles schools utilizing instructional technology...
48 min
802
Jonathan Boyarin, "Yeshiva Days: Learning on th...
Boyarin explores the yeshiva's relationship with the neighborhood, the city, and Jewish and American culture more broadly, and brings vividly to life its routines, rituals, and rhythms...
62 min
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Shyam Sharma, "Writing Support for Internationa...
72 min
804
Helen Sword, "Stylish Academic Writing" (Harvar...
We talk about bad writing, but a lot more about how to make it good. There's even a dog....
82 min
805
Jo Mackiewicz, "Writing Center Talk over Time: ...
We talk about talk, tutor talk, student talk, spoken written-language, and Wisconsin...
80 min
806
Should I Quit My Ph.D. Program?
What happens when graduate school doesn’t go as you’d planned, and what happens to your degree and your career if you leave school before you complete your PhD.
46 min
807
Kelly Underman, "Feeling Medicine: How the Pelv...
Underman gives us a look inside these gynecological teaching programs, showing how they embody the tension between scientific thought and human emotion in medical education...
39 min
808
The Work and Value of University Presses
What do university presses do? And how do they contributed to public discourse?
50 min
809
Jamie Merisotis, "Human Work in the Age of Smar...
Are robots going to be our overlords? No, we can make them our friends...
32 min
810
Introduction to 'The Academic Life' Podcast
Meet the hosts of "The Academic Life."
46 min
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Jennifer S. Light, "States of Childhood: From t...
A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: simulated cities, states, and nations in which children played the roles of legislators, police officers, bankers, journalists, shopkeepers, and other adults...
60 min
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Scholarly Communication: Kit Nicholls on the Wr...
Listen to this interview of Kit Nicholls, Director of Cooper Union Center for Writing. We talk about writing, thinking, the university, and what everyone cares about...
95 min
813
Eddie Cole, "The Campus Color Line: College Pre...
Cole sheds light on the important place of college presidents in the struggle for racial parity.,,
26 min
814
Rosanne Carlo, "Transforming Ethos: Place and t...
Carlo approaches writing studies from the rhetorical flank, the flank which, for many, is the only flank the discipline has,,,
79 min
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W. Germano and K. Nicholls, "Syllabus: The Rema...
Do you teach, or do you care about education? Then you have to read this book.
88 min
816
Dr. Christopher Harris on Teaching Neuroscience
Harris and his team describe, and present results from, their classroom-based pilots of this new and highly innovative approach to neuroscience and STEM education...
63 min
817
Carla Yanni, "Living on Campus: An Architectura...
Every fall on move-in day, parents tearfully bid farewell to their beloved sons and daughters at college dormitories: it is an age-old ritual...
27 min
818
Katherine M. Young, "How to Be Sort of Happy in...
Young surveyed over 1,100 then-current law students, 250 alumni, and conducted detailed interviews with law students about their experiences in law school and concerns about pedagogy, other students, law professors, and hopes and fears about school and their future careers...
58 min
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Nadine Strossen, “Hate: Why We Should Resist it...
Strossen dispels misunderstandings plaguing our perennial debates about "hate speech vs. free speech," showing that the First Amendment approach promotes free speech and democracy, equality, and societal harmony...
70 min
820
Majid Daneshgar, "Studying the Qur’an in the Mu...
Daneshgar invites his readers on a journey exploring how the Muslim academy—that is, academic institutions in the Muslim-majority world—teaches Islamic Studies, with an emphasis on the Qur’an...
37 min
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Jonathan Haber, "Critical Thinking" (The MIT Pr...
"Critical Thinking." You hear a lot about it, but what is it?
59 min
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Federico R. Waitoller, "Excluded by Choice: Urb...
Waitoller highlights the challenges faced by students of color who have special needs and their parents who evaluate their educational options...
40 min
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David Eaton, "World History through Case Studie...
Eaton holds that mastering these concepts will build the critical thinking skills essential to a historian....
77 min
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J. Kim and E. Maloney, "Learning Innovation and...
Kim and Maloney document major transformations at colleges and universities that have been quietly taking place, even amidst noise about crisis and disruption...
30 min
825
Beth Pickens, "Your Art Will Save Your Life" (T...
As a teenager visiting the Andy Warhol Museum, Beth Pickens realized the importance of making art...
54 min