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Education
Interviews with scholars of education about their new books.
June 20, 2024
PhDing While Parenting
An increasing number of students worldwide attend graduate school while simultaneously navigating a variety of competing responsibilities in their per…
June 16, 2024
Good Boys, Bad Hombres
The unintended consequences of youth empowerment programs for Latino boys Educational research has long documented the politics of punishment for boys…
June 15, 2024
Serving Hispanic, Latine, and Latinx Students in Academic Libraries
Serving Hispanic, Latine, and Latinx Students in Academic Libraries (Library Juice Press, 2024) is a collection of essays written by library workers t…
June 15, 2024
Resistance from the Right
Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren L…
June 9, 2024
Children of a Troubled Time
Kids are at the center of today's "culture wars"--pundits, politicians, and parents alike are debating which books they should be allowed to read, whi…
June 5, 2024
Democracy and Education
John Dewey's Democracy and Education (1916) transformed how people around the world view the purposes of schooling. This new edition makes Dewey's ide…
May 30, 2024
Transforming Hispanic-Serving Institutions for Equity and Justice
What makes Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) uniquely Latinx? And how can university leaders, staff, and faculty transform these institutions into …
May 28, 2024
Do the Humanities Create Knowledge?
There is in certain circles a widely held belief that the only proper kind of knowledge is scientific knowledge. This belief often runs parallel to th…
May 27, 2024
Dirt Don't Burn
The system of educational apartheid that existed in the United States until the Brown v. Board of Education decision and its aftermath has affected ev…
May 27, 2024
Disrupting Academic Bullying
Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with Bryan Hanson, ombudsperson for Virginia Tech's Graduate School, about a program he developed called Disrup…
May 18, 2024
Indoctrinating the Youth
Indoctrinating the Youth: Secondary Education in Wartime China and Postwar Taiwan, 1937-1960 (U Hawaii Press, 2024) examines how the Guomindang (GMD o…
May 17, 2024
Betting on the Civil Service Examinations
During the Qing dynasty in China, a wide variety of people participated in a lottery game named weixing (“surname guessing”), which had participants p…
May 15, 2024
The Left Hand of Data
Educational analytics tend toward aggregation, asking what a “normative” learner does. In The Left Hand of Data: Designing Education Data for Justice …
May 13, 2024
The Limits of Sexuality Education
The Limits of Sexuality Education: Love, Sex, and Adolescent Masculinities in Urban India (Routledge, 2024) explores different strands of thinking abo…
May 12, 2024
The Chosen We
The Chosen We: Black Women's Empowerment in Higher Education (SUNY Press, 2023) elevates the oral histories of 105 accomplished, college-educated Blac…
May 11, 2024
Learning for the Love of God
Today I talked to Donald Opitz and Derek Melleby about their book Learning for the Love of God: A Student's Guide to Academic Faithfulness (Brazos Pre…
May 7, 2024
Knowing Silence
Learning from children about citizenship status and how it shapes their schooling. There is a persistent assumption in the field of education that c…
May 7, 2024
Teaching the History of the Book
Edited by Matteo Pangallo and Emily Todd, Teaching the History of the Book (University of Massachusetts Press 2023) is the first collection of its kin…
May 6, 2024
Community and Heritage Languages Schools Transforming Education
Today we talked to Joseph Lo Bianco about the edited volume Community and Heritage Languages Schools Transforming Education (Routledge, 2023). The con…
May 2, 2024
Leading from the Margins
Today’s book is: Leading From the Margins: College Leadership from Unexpected Places (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024), by Dr. Mary Dana Hinton, which is a gui…