Harry Potter Goes to School: Learning In and Out of Hogwarts

Harry Potter Goes to School: Learning In and Out of Hogwarts

By Carrie BirminghamEducationFiction
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  • New Things
    So many new things happen to Harry in the next few chapters as he—and
    we—are introduced to Hogwarts and the magical world. This episode will
    survey a few of the magical and not magical new things that Harry
    experiences as he gets settled in his new school.
    19 min
  • Shabby Grubby Twitchy
    Number four Privet Drive is neat, orderly and well-scrubbed on the outside,
    dark and malevolent on the inside. In contrast, the magical world seems to
    hold many places, people, and items that are the opposite—shabby in
    appearance, splendid in essence. In this chapter, we begin to see this
    contrast.
    16 min
  • Twenty-Nine Questions
    After 10 years of DON'T ASK QUESTIONS—the first rule for a quiet life with
    the Dursleys—Harry explodes with questions as Hagrid escorts him to Diagon
    Alley to get his magical school supplies.
    16 min
  • Hagrid’s Lesson
    This is a big one. The key to the entire educational program of the entire
    Hogwarts saga is revealed in this chapter. Well, one of the keys—a big key.
    And it’s announced by high school dropout, Rubeus Hagrid.
    22 min
  • The Letter and the Knobbly Stick
    The wizarding world intrudes on the Dursley’s comfortable emptiness with
    nothing-more-dangerous-looking than a letter in an envelope. The power of
    the written word is enough to drive the Dursleys onto a stormy island shack
    and Vernon to madness. The study in contrast between the wizarding world
    (the good part of it) and the Muggle world (the bad part of it) is painted
    in this chapter as the power of the written word (the letter) vs. the power
    of physical force (the knobbly stick).
    18 min
  • At School, Harry Had No One
    Number four, Privet Drive appears to be an orderly, healthy, stable place
    to grow up, with its tidy garden and family photographs, but it holds a bad
    secret behind the front door. Vernon and Petunia think their worst secret
    is the existence of their magical relatives. This chapter tells a far worse
    secret that is all too real and all too frequent, even in the non-literary
    world: child abuse and neglect.
    17 min
  • A Tale of Three Families
    Joanne sets the stage for Harry’s life by introducing us to three
    contrasting “families:” James and Lily Potter—who have been murdered, and
    their little son Harry—who survived; Vernon and Petunia Dursley and their
    little son Dudley, who are about to receive a very unpleasant surprise; and
    Albus Dumbledore and Minerva McGonagall, and their “little son” Rubeus
    Hagrid, through whose eyes we start to understand just how important the
    events of the previous day have been in the magical world.
    15 min
  • Introduction and Announcements
    Welcome to Harry Potter Goes to School: Learning In and Out of Hogwarts, a
    podcast for students, teachers, professors, parents, and anyone else
    interested in what a Hogwarts education has to offer. Please join us in the
    Great Hall for a chapter-by-chapter analysis of the Harry Potter series and
    all things education. What would the first day of school be like without
    announcements? Now then, let’s get right to it.
    15 min
  • Looking Back

    I’ve looked back over all 28 episodes and found eight topics or themes that seemed important in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone—things that the text has to say to the field of education, and things that education has to say back to Hogwarts. This episode takes a look at the first four topics.

    28 min
  • Good, Evil, and Power

    For every time you use your power to bring joy, inspiration, humor, healing, and humanizing to your students, thank you from me and from all the people who will be living in the world with the children they are now and the grownups that your students will become.

    24 min

About Harry Potter Goes to School: Learning In and Out of Hogwarts

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Welcome to Harry Potter Goes to School: Learning In and Out of Hogwarts, a podcast for students, teachers, professors, parents, and anyone else interested in what a Hogwarts education has to offer. Please join us in the Great Hall for a chapter-by-chapter analysis of the Harry Potter series and all things education.