Imagine you call a plumber.

This episode is about becoming a better college teacher (if you're lucky), featuring UW-Madison philosophy professor Harry Brighouse and Oakland middle school teacher Grace Gecewicz.

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Produced by Carrie Welsh, with editorial help from Anna Nelson, Hannah Bounds, Trinity Giese, and Harry Brighouse. 

Recorded in June 2021. 

The true costs of college go way beyond simple frugality. The costs are serious, and they are often overlooked by universities. 

Hosted by UW-Madison grad Natnael Shiferaw, this episode features a conversation with ethnographers Nancy Kendall and Matthew Wolfgram, two of the authors of the 2020 book, "The True Costs of College."

This is part of our series on higher education.

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Conversation recorded remotely June 2021.

Music is "Wind It Up" by Ketsa from the Free Music Archive. Used under a creative commons license.

Jon Boeckenstedt is the Vice Provost of Enrollment Management at Oregon State University. He has thoughts about how we do--and should do--admissions. Here he is in conversation with philosopher of education Harry Brighouse. 

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This is part of our series on higher education.

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Conversation recorded remotely July 2021.

Music is "Aced It" by Ketsa from the Free Music Archive. Used under a creative commons license. 

Do we have a right to higher education? A conversation between philosophers of education Harry Brighouse and Christopher Martin. 

This is part of our series on the ethics of higher education.

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Recorded remotely in July 2021.

Music is "We Know" by Ketsa from the Free Music Archive, used under a creative commons license. 

What should the aims of higher education be? We asked undergrads, grad students, and philosophy professors what they think.

This is the first episode in our series on the ethics of higher education.

Special thanks to UW-Madison philosophy majors Ria Dhingra and Anna Nelson, who collected responses from the 2021 NAAPE Conference (North American Association for Philosophy & Education) and with a few of their friends. And gratitude to everyone they talked to who shared their thoughts.

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Music is "Dream Teachers" by Ketsa, used under a creative commons license.

Recorded in October 2022.

At the Center for Ethics & Education, we (obviously) think a lot about the ethical dimensions of teaching. But what about the ethical dimensions of *not* teaching? 

We invited labor scholar Eleni Schirmer into conversation with philosopher Tony Laden to talk about what makes successful teacher strikes successful, strikes as direct action, what the bargaining process does to trust, and a great chicken analogy. 

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Recorded remotely September 2021. Music is Wavy Glass by Ketsa, used under a creative commons license.

Why is it weird to talk about loving your students? A great conversation about love and teaching. Featuring philosopher Meghan Sullivan in conversation with Maria Salazar about what it means to bring love into the classroom and why more philosophers should study love.

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The Good Life Method book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/624476/the-good-life-method-by-meghan-sullivan-and-paul-blaschko/

Music is Hip Hop Instrumental 2 by Ketsa from the Free Music Archive. Used under a creative commons license.

Navigating educational equal opportunity is hard. Christopher Jencks's five principles for equal education opportunity make navigating equal education a little bit easier - once we understand the principles, of course.

Are you teaching Jencks in your education or philosophy class? There's a study guide for this episode!

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Article discussed in this episode: Jencks, Christopher. “Whom Must We Treat Equally for Educational Opportunity to Be Equal?” Ethics, vol. 98, no. 3, University of Chicago Press, 1988, pp. 518–33, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2380965.

Produced by Avra Reddy and Carrie Welsh. Interview recorded in September 2021. Music is "Frieden" by Ketsa, from the Free Music Archive.

How and why should we punish schoolchildren--if at all? That's the guiding question of the Pedagogies of Punishment project. This episode features the project's PIs, John Tillson (Liverpool Hope University) and Winston C. Thompson (The Ohio State University). 

Pedagogies of Punishment: https://www.pedagogiesofpunishment.com/

This project was a grantee of the Center for Ethics & Education! We're proud.

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Recorded July 2021.

Producer: Carrie Welsh. Music is "Wavy Glass" by Podington Bear and "Stay With Me" by Ketsa, used under a creative commons license.

What can we learn from conversation that we can't learn on our own? Agnes Callard (Philosophy, University of Chicago) talks about the paradox of learning through conversation, the secret to asking a good question, chatting with the ghost of Aristotle, and that time her lecture notes were stolen and it ended up being a good thing for her teaching. 

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Pairs well with: Reasoning by Anthony Simon Laden

Recorded in Chicago, July 2021.

Thanks to Agnes Callard and Sol Miller.

Producer: Carrie Welsh. Music is "Wavy Glass" and "Good Times" by Podington Bear, used under a creative commons license.