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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 38 days 1 hour 44 minutes
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
episode 37: Marcy Simons, "Academic Librarianship: Anchoring the Profession in Contribution, Scholarship, and Service" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
An interview with Marcy Simons
episode 205: Sandro R. Barros et al., "The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas: Queering Literature, Politics, and the Activist Curriculum" (U Florida Press, 2022)
An interview with Sandro R. Barros, Rafael Ocasio and Angela L. Willis