Thinking in the Midst

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 . And use this form to recommend future g...

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 Here is the form to recommend future topics and guests.

Doctoral students Phoebe Gilpin, Martha Perez-Mugg, and Arham Kazi sit down with Cara and Derek to talk about the writings that drew them to philosophy in the first place, the books they've encountered through their studies, and the works that they find themselves drawing upon in their own writing, as well. As always, please use this form to recommend future topics and guests. Works we talked abou...

Dave Backer and Heather DuBois Bourenane join Cara and Derek to talk about how schools are funded, the way investment vehicles (as well as quantities) reflect certain social commitments, and what it all means for the way we (literally) value schooling. For Heather's organization, WPEN, click here . For Dave's forthcoming book, click here . The Shanker Institute's School Finance Indicators Database...

This week, we present another cross-posted episode -- this time featuring Cara's podcast Teaching from an Ethical Center . This week's guest, Jia Lee, talks to Cara about the idea of adapting curriculum to fit her students, the idea of "fidelity" as policymakers and curriculum designers use the term, and what else it might mean, as well. As always, please use this form to recommend future guests a...

In this episode, we're featuring a philosophical conversation in a different register, re-releasing a conversation between Derek and Annie Schultz about the 1998 film You've Got Mail . Is Nora Ephron an early object-oriented ontologist? What can we expect or hope to learn from fictional characters? The New Yorker article on Nora Ephron we referenced The Atlantic piece on the gentrification of the...

PEN America's Jeremy Young and the University of Connecticut's Michael Lynch join Cara and Derek to talk about the use of state power to restrict what can be discussed and studied in educational institutions, particularly, though not exclusively, colleges and universities. Jeremy's report, America's Censored Classrooms 2024 Michael's forthcoming On Truth in Politics (available for preorder) Use th...

Casey Burkholder, Stephanie Jones, and Lauren Bialystok join Cara and Derek to talk about what ELSE we're teaching when we teach -- and argue about -- sexuality, and how it might be different. For more of Casey's work, click here , here , here , and here . Here is Lauren's book , and here is the book chapter she mentioned in the episode. And for Stephanie's work, click here , here , here , and her...

Katie Sellars and Alex Nikolaidis sit down with Cara and Derek to talk about their experiences with academic conferences in general, and with the Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society in particular. For Alex's work, see his website . For Katie's projects, see her website , too. To recommend future guests or topics, please use this form .

Sara Hardman and Elizabeth O'Brien join Cara and Derek to talk about -- I don't know how else to say it -- the mattering of the spaces where teachers work and children learn: how valorization and valuation work in and through educational settings. For Elizabeth's book, click here . For Sara's dissertation, hopefully a preview of the book to come, click here . As always, please use this form to rec...

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 . To recommend future episodes and guests, use this form .

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 . Here is ⁠the form to recommend guests and topics⁠ !

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 . Here is the form to recommend guests and topics !

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...

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. As always, use...

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. As always, recommend future episodes and guests to us using this form!

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 Use this form to suggest future episodes and guests!

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 . Tell us what topics/books we ought...

In this special episode, we once again feature the most recent PES meeting's Presidential Address -- given by AG Rud, this year -- and the response, which is delivered by Sarah Stitzlein. We'll link to their recent work in a follow-up episode with them, where we'll discuss the address and the response, and what it's like to create and deliver that kind of thing. Here is the form wi...

Barb Stengel, Kathy Hytten, and Deron Boyles join us to talk about Barb's brand new book Responsibility . Deron and Kathy have worked out the positions they're coming from in work of their own, too, of course. See Deron's John Dewey's Imaginative Vision of Teaching . See Kathy's "On Building Islands of Decency." Recommend future guests and topics with this form ! Othe...

Kathy Schultz and Jerusha (Rue) Beckerman join Cara and Derek to talk about what attracted them to teaching in the first place, what anchors their thinking there, and where they see dignity emerging in practice and where they see it under threat. For Kathy's most recent book, click here . For more on the teaching program Rue runs, click here . Here is the transcript for the episode. Use this f...

Spurred by Adam Kotsko's piece on r eading habits among college students (a similar piece appeared just this week in the Chronicle of Higher Ed), Cara and I invited David Hansen and Claudia Ruitenberg -- both esteemed and thoughtful readers -- to talk to us about how they think about reading in their own lives and as part of what they teach their students. For David's books, click here and...

Morgan Anderson and Ken Saltman sit down with Cara and Derek to discuss ed tech's penchant for innovating new forms of much older problems, even as they are promoted as presenting solutions. Solutions for whom? See Morgan's critique of "technophilia" here . See Ken's recent books here , here , and here . Click here for the transcript. Use this form to recommend future guests...

Jess Calarco and Mark Nagasawa sit down with Cara and Derek to talk about public institutions and programs--and especially the lack thereof--for early childhood education, and the racialized and gendered ramifications of our policy choices. LINKS: Order Mark's collection, T ransforming Early Years Policy in the US . Preorder Jess's new book, Holding It Together: How Women Became America&#3...

Philosophical Studies in Education SIG officers Caitlin Murphy Brust, Jamie Herman, and Ka Ya Lee join Cara and Derek to share thoughts and advice about navigating conferences generally and AERA in particular. Two events for grad students to note at AERA: 1.) Mentoring coffee chat (Sat Apr 13th, Elixr Coffee , 3-4:30pm) 2.) Graduate student social (Sat Ap 13th, Victory Brewing , 5-6:30pm) LINKS Fo...