Thinking in the Midst – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Nicholas Tampio and Kathy Hytten join Cara and Derek to talk about Dewey, political saturation, democratic habits, and how expensive youth hockey is.

For Kathy's works, click here and here

For Nick's edition and intro to Democracy and Education, click here. And for his Common Core book, click here. And for public-facing work on Dewey, click here.

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A live episode! GroundWorks's 2024 edition features a piece on "Systemic Indoctrination" by Fedor Korochkin, and in an event held Tuesday, January 14th, he gave it as a talk, with Christopher Martin and Rebecca Taylor responding, and followed by a Q&A session.

Here is the paper at the GroundWorks website, and

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With NEPES right around the corner -- tomorrow, in fact -- Siri Ranganath and Drew Chambers join Cara and Derek to talk about what motivates them to serve in organizational offices, what the work is like, and how they approach it.

To see the NEPES program, click here.

For Drew's personal website, click here.

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Chris Higgins and Kristen Case are back with Cara and Derek to finish talking about Chris's new book, ⁠Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education.⁠

For Kristen's awesome work, visit ⁠her website⁠.

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Chris Higgins and Kristen Case join Cara and Derek to talk about Chris's new book, Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education.

For Kristen's awesome work, visit her website.

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Paula McAvoy and Pablo Wolfe join us to discuss the whys and the hows of fostering conversations about even the most fraught political issues in educational spaces like classrooms.

LINKS:

Here is Paula's The Political Classroom (with Diana Hess). More recent work of hers to help practitioners with these issues can be found here and here.

And here is Pablo's The Civically Engaged Classroom. His organization, the Coalition of Civically Engaged Educators, is linked here.

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Krystal Dillard and Kyle Greenwalt talk about the hows and whys of doing schooling beyond the schools.

Here is Natural Creativity, the organization that Krystal co-directs.

The 74 covered Krystal's work, as well, in this piece.

Kyle's work is all available on his ResearchGate page, but these two pieces in Ed Theory and The Conversation are particularly worth highlighting.

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In a follow-up to episode 47, AG Rud and Sarah Stitzlein sit down with Cara and Derek to talk about the process of selecting a conference theme, writing a presidential address, composing a good response, and sharing one's ideas in public.

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Jon Shelton and Neil Kraus join Cara and Derek to talk about the way education policy imagines the relationship between schooling, workforce preparation, socioeconomic security, and individual fulfillment -- and why it is all a sham.

Jon's excellent book, The Education Myth

Neil's excellent book, The Fantasy Economy

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Kip Kline and Jeff Dudas join Cara and Derek to talk discuss their work on the educative power of pop culture artifacts, the use of popular media in the classroom, and the fantasies of education (tm Winston Thompson) that certain films, in particular express.

For Kip's book on Baudrillard and film, click here.

For Jeffrey's most recent book, click here.

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