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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 37 days 20 hours 59 minutes
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...
episode 226: Hajar Yazdiha, "The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement" (Princeton UP, 2023)
An interview with Hajar Yazdiha
episode 274: Ankhi Mukherjee and Ato Quayson, "Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
An interview with Ankhi Mukherjee and Ato Quayson
episode 39: Andi Gustavson and Charlotte Nunes, "Transforming the Authority of the Archive: Undergraduate Pedagogy and Critical Digital Archives" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
An interview with Andi Gustavson and Charlotte Nunes
episode 225: Kathryn Fishman-Weaver and Jill Clingan, "Teaching Women's and Gender Studies (Grades 9-12)" (Routledge, 2022)
An interview with Kathryn Fishman-Weaver and Jill Clingan
episode 224: Kathryn Fishman-Weaver and Jill Clingan, "Teaching Women's and Gender Studies (Grades 6-8)" (Routledge, 2022)
An interview with Kathryn Fishman-Weaver and Jill Clingan