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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 37 days 17 hours 13 minutes
episode 22: Max Felker-Kantor, "DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools" (UNC Press, 2023)
An interview with Max Felker-Kantor
episode 42: Patrick Gamsby, "The Discourse of Scholarly Communication" (Lexington Books, 2023)
An interview with Patrick Gamsby
episode 227: James S. Damico and Mark C. Baildon, "How to Confront Climate Denial: Literacy, Social Studies, and Climate Change" (Teachers College Press, 2022)
An interview with James S. Damico and Mark C. Baildon
episode 44: Richard A. Detweiler, "The Evidence Liberal Arts Needs: Lives of Consequence, Inquiry, and Accomplishment" (MIT Press, 2021)
An interview with Richard A. Detweiler
episode 71: Nicholas B. Dirks, "City of Intellect: The Uses and Abuses of the University" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
An interview with Nicholas B. Dirks
episode 337: Sheila Marie Bock, "Claiming Space: Performing the Personal Through Decorated Mortarboards" (Utah State UP, 2023)
An interview with Sheila Marie Bock
episode 122: The Culture Trap, with Sociologist Derron Wallace (EF, JP)
In this episode, Elizabeth and John talk with Derron Wallace, sociologist of education and Brandeis colleague, about his new book The Culture Trap, which explores "ethnic expectations" for Caribbean schoolchildren in New York and London. His work starts with the basic puzzle that while black Caribbean schoolchildren in New York are often considered as "high-achieving," in London, they have been, conversely thought to be "chronically underachieving...
episode 199: Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education
A Discussion with Jasmine L. Harris
episode 76: Maryam Kashani, "Medina by the Bay: Scenes of Muslim Study and Survival" (Duke UP, 2023)
An interview with Maryam Kashani
episode 95: The Future of School Reform: A Discussion with Alison Colwell
Educationalists sometimes argue that the best way to improve a failing school is to appoint a strict principal or head, and this is sometimes the case. Not everyone agrees, of course, and many wonder what a strict principle or head actually does to improve student performance. In this interview, Owen Bennett Jones speaks with Alison Colwell, a woman the Daily Mail labelled Britain’s strictest head teacher. She turned a school around, and tells Bennett Jones how she did it...