New Books in Education
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Farina King, "The Earth Memory Compass: Diné La...
Farina King argues that education and the creation of “thick” cultural knowledge played, and continues to play, a central role in the survival of Diné culture...
61 min
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Jamal Elias, "Alef is for Allah: Childhood, Emo...
Jamal Elias takes his readers on a riveting intellectual tour thematically centered on the interaction of childhood, visual culture, and affect in contemporary Muslim majority societies, and in Muslim intellectual thought more broadly...
38 min
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Ellen Moore, "Grateful Nation: Student Veterans...
I don’t know about the colleges and universities you’re familiar with, but the U.S. military has a pretty visible presence on my campus....
62 min
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Janelle Adsit, "Toward an Inclusive Creative Wr...
What do students who enter creative-writing classrooms encounter as these young men and women hope to discover who they are and can be as writers?
51 min
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Alex Bentley and Michael O'Brien, "The Accelera...
Our evolutionary success, according to co-authors Alex Bentley and Michael O'Brien, lies in our ability to acquire cultural wisdom and teach it to the next generation...
49 min
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James W. Loewen, "Teaching What Really Happened...
In an atmosphere filled with social media and fake news, history is more important than ever. But, what do you really know about history...
39 min
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Joshua Eyler, "How Humans Learn: The Science an...
What is learning? There is a robust body of literature that seeks to tell us what the most effective classroom techniques and strategies are, but Joshua Eyler goes further...
38 min
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McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One ...
McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who are worth your attention...
61 min
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Keisha Lindsay, "In a Classroom of Their Own: T...
52 min
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Jeong-Hee Kim, "Understanding Narrative Inquiry...
62 min
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Bryan Caplan, “The Case against Education: Why ...
Pretty much everyone knows that the American healthcare system is, well, very inefficient. We don’t, so critics say, get as much healthcare bang for our buck as we should. According to Bryan Caplan, however,
27 min
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Michelle Fine, “Just Research in Contentious Ti...
What can a researcher do to promote social justice? A conventional image of a researcher describes her staying in the ivory tower for most of the time, producing papers filled with academic jargons periodically,
78 min
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Shenila Khoja-Moolji, “Forging an Ideal Educate...
Shenila Khoja-Moolji’s Forging an Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia (University of California Press, 2018) is a pathbreaking and incredibly timely monograph that combines tools of education studies,
39 min
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Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro, “Cents an...
The vast chasm between classical economics and the humanities is widely known and accepted. They are profoundly different disciplines with little to say to one another. Such is the accepted wisdom. Fortunately,
47 min
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Pamela Woolner, ed., “School Design Together” (...
Pamela Woolner, senior lecturer in education at Newcastle University, joins us in this episode to discuss her edited volume, School Design Together (Routledge, 2014). Pam is an expert in understanding and developing learning environments,
29 min
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Stefan M. Bradley, “Upending the Ivory Tower: C...
The eight elite institutions that comprise the Ivy League, sometimes known as the Ancient Eight—Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, and Cornell—are American stalwarts that have profoundly influenced history and culture by produc...
42 min
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Gary Alan Fine, “Talking Art: The Culture of Pr...
Most people have heard of the Masters of Fine Arts–“MFA”–degree, but few know about the grueling process one must undergo to complete one. In Talking Art: The Culture of Practice and the Practice of Culture in MFA Education (University of Chicago Press...
40 min
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Melissa Terras, “Picture-Book Professors: Acade...
How have academics been represented in children’s books? In Picture-Book Professors: Academia and Children’s Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Melissa Terras, Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at the University of Edinburgh,
30 min
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Freeden Blume Oeur, “Black Boys Apart: Racial U...
How do schools empower but also potentially emasculate young black men? In his new book, Black Boys Apart: Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), Freeden Blume Oeur uses observational and inte...
66 min
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J. Lester, C. Lochmiller, and R. Gabriel, “Disc...
The study of education policy is a scholarly field that sheds light on important debates and controversies revolving around education policy and its implementation. In this episode, we will be talking with three scholars who have made substantial contr...
50 min
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Azra Hromadžić, “Citizens of an Empty Nation: Y...
Despite all the buzz about the reconstruction of Mostar’s beautiful Old Bridge, Mostar remains a largely divided city, with Bosniaks on one side and Croats on the other. In Citizens of an Empty Nation: Youth and State-Making in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovi...
55 min
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Fabio Lanza, “The End of Concern: Maoist China,...
If you work in Asian studies as a scholarly field, you should read Fabio Lanza’s new book. The End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies (Duke University Press, 2017) takes as its central case study the Committee of Concerned Asian Scho...
75 min
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Matthew T. Hora, “Beyond the Skills Gap: Prepar...
How can educators ensure that young people who attain a postsecondary credential are adequately prepared for the future? Matthew T. Hora and his co-authors, Ross Benbow and Amanda Oleson, explain that the answer is not simply that students need more sp...
41 min
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Steven Alvarez, “Brokering Tareas: Mexican Immi...
In this episode, I speak with Steven Alvarez about his book, Brokering Tareas: Mexican Immigrant Families Translanguaging Homework Literacies (SUNY Press, 2017). This book highlights a grassroots literacy mentorship program that connects emerging bilin...
27 min
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Robert N. Gross, “Public vs. Private: The Early...
There are numerous political debates about education policy today, but some of the most heated surround vouchers, charter schools, and other questions about public funding and oversight of private schools. Though many of these questions feel new,
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