The Cultural Context of Knowledge

The Cultural Context of Knowledge

By Dr. Donald Easton-BrooksSociety & CultureEducation
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The Cultural Context of Knowledge episodes

  • Who Gets to Teach It? Representation and the Long Shadow of Brown v. Board
    Integration happened to the students — it did not happen to the teaching profession. Revisits the Brown v. Board–era displacement of Black educators rarely included in the standard story, and examines what decades of research on ethnic matching reveal about student outcomes.
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    12 min
  • From Knowledge to Legitimacy: How Institutions Decide What Counts
    How do ideas become legitimate knowledge? Drawing on Foucault, Kuhn, Merton, and Bourdieu, this episode examines how universities, journals, and academic institutions decide what counts as credible through power and gatekeeping.
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    13 min
  • Why Some Knowledge Is Marginalized: The Evolution of Ethnic Studies
    Explores the history of ethnic studies and how student movements challenged universities to recognize marginalized histories and perspectives — and how expanding participation reshapes the boundaries of legitimate knowledge.
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    14 min
  • Knowledge, Power, and the U.S. Demographic Pivot
    The classroom has changed — has education? For the first time in U.S. history, children under 18 are the majority non-white. Season 2 opens with the question: who decides what counts as knowledge?
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    8 min
  • Knowledge and Power: Season 2 Trailer

    "Who decides what gets called knowledge — and what does that decision cost the people on the receiving end?"

    Welcome to Season 2 of The Cultural Context of Knowledge. This season is organized around one relationship: knowledge and power. The classroom in the United States has changed. The students inside it have changed. The institutions that decide what counts as knowledge have not yet changed with them. That is the gap this season takes up.

    What's ahead this season:

    ·       How institutions decide what counts as legitimate knowledge

    ·       The legislative wave reshaping what teachers can and cannot say

    ·       What schooling does to the children we send into it — and what the trauma research has been telling us for decades

    ·       AI as the newest gatekeeper, and what an accountable response would look like

    ·       Where state standards actually get written, and who is in the room when they are

    ·       What it would take to design education for the world that already exists

    If you are an educator, a learner, a parent, or someone trying to understand a system you have spent your whole life inside of, this season is for you.

    Start with Episode 1 — Knowledge, Power, and the U.S. Demographic Pivot.

    About the show

    The Cultural Context of Knowledge is a narrative podcast hosted by Dr. Donald Easton-Brooks, exploring how culture, history, institutions, and power shape what counts as knowledge — and what that means for learners, classrooms, and the U.S. education system.


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    3 min
  • From Studying to Transfer, Confidence, and Long-Term Growth (Learner Edition, S1 E11)
    Closing the seven-part series: how to move beyond short-term studying and build learning that transfers across new classes, new problems, and real-life decision-making.
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    10 min
  • How Your Brain Makes Room for New Information (Learner Edition, S1 E5)
    Why learning naturally feels difficult — and why that struggle is not a sign something is wrong with you. A 'mental storage room' metaphor opens the seven-part Learner Edition series.
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    18 min
  • Memorization vs. Learning: How to Make Studying Actually Stick (Learner Edition, S1 E6)
    Studying as memorization leaves information that disappears on tests or can't be used in real problems. Breaks down the difference between memorizing and learning so what you study actually sticks.
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    10 min
  • How to Diagnose What You Don't Understand Yet (Learner Edition, S1 E7)
    Most people don't struggle because they're 'not smart' — they struggle because they study in a way that doesn't match what the task requires. Introduces Bloom's Taxonomy as a diagnostic tool.
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    9 min
  • What to Do When You're Stuck (Learner Edition, S1 E8)
    Turns Bloom's Taxonomy into a practical toolkit. Simple strategies matched to each phase of learning — from recall through creation — so you stop studying the same way for every class.
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    10 min

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Dr. Donald Easton-Brooks on how schools decide whose knowledge counts. Researched, single-voice essays on curriculum, pedagogy, equity, and the cultural context of learning. A companion to…