Thinking in the Midst

Emmalee Forristall, Kathy Hytten, and Kurt Stemhagen sat down to talk with Cara about youth sports and democracy. They explained how practices from cell phones in the locker room, financial accessibility, and whether you play for the town team influence democratic habits. Listen and keep the conversation going with your teams and players.

To learn more about this year's philosophy of education conference and submit: https://www.philosophyofeducation.org/

For more on this topic from Kathy and Kurt check out:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23328584241311810

From Kurt on democracy (and math) check out: https://www.routledge.com/Democracy-and-Mathematics-Education-Rethinking-School-Math-for-Our-Troubled-Times/Stemhagen-Henney/p/book/9780367608200

Pattie Bailie and David Sobel sat down with Cara to talk about place based education and nature based education! They offer a vision of education that is responsive, local, and practical!

For more of Pattie's work check out: 

https://shop.gryphonhouse.com/products/partnering-with-nature-in-early-childhood?variant=47751201095972 and https://shop.gryphonhouse.com/products/evaluating-natureness?variant=47751127630116.

For more of David's work check out: https://www.davidsobelauthor.com/

To learn more about the Philosophy and Education annual meeting: https://www.philosophyofeducation.org/

Naoko Saito, Jim Garrison, and Vincent Colapietro sit down with Cara and Derek to talk through Dr. Saito's General Session paper at PES 2025. The paper itself will appear in an upcoming issue of Philosophy of Education, but for more of Dr. Saito's related work (mentioned in the episode), see her recent American Philosophy in Translation.

For Garrison's very important essay (also mentioned in the episode), see "A Deweyan Theory of Democratic Listening."

And for Colapietro's recent work on relationality, see his "Relations, Ruptures, and Rituals," as well as his "Quotidian Tasks."

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Our second and final recording of a PES session, this episode features Paul Geis, Brad Rowe, Natasha Levinson, Christina Donaldson, and Cara Furman reflecting on mentorship in our field and in academia more broadly. This PES panel discussion was sponsored by the Committee on Mentoring.

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Ariana Zetlin and Vik Joshi join Cara and Derek to talk about the 2024 Northeast Philosophy of Education Society meeting and the way it assisted the fantastic work that they share with us here.

For more info on Project Belonging, click here.

For the 2025 NEPES call for papers, click here

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In a special hyper-alliterative episode, Claire Katz, Cristina Cammarano, and Clarissa Thompson join Cara and Derek to talk about philosophy in summer camp settings.

For scholarly work on philosophy camps in general, click here and here.

For information on Claire’s camp, including how to sign up for this year’s offerings, click here.

To request information and reserve a spot in Cristina’s camp, click here.

And see these links for Clarissa’s organization and camp.

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Tristan Gleason and John Mullen sit down with Cara and Derek to talk about a wide range of matters, from science education to ecology to climate and beyond.

For more of John's work, click here, here, and here

For more of Tristan's work, click here, here, and here

And for an incomplete bibliography of what we discussed in this episode, see all of these several links.

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This episode presents a panel from PES 2025 entitled "Philosophy, the Coming of Age, and the Future of the Future," and consisting of papers by Barbara Applebaum, Barb Stengel, Deborah Kerdeman, and Nicholas Burbules.

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Meredith Broussard and Sasha Sidorkin sit down with Cara and Derek to talk about what artificial intelligence can be, how it works, what it’s for, and what it all means.

For Meredith’s books on the subject, click here and here.

For Sasha’s latest books, click here and here (and for an AI-generated podcast about the most recent book — WHAT ARE CARA AND I EVEN DOING ANYMORE — click here).

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Cam Scribner and Kathleen Knight Abowitz join Cara and Derek to discuss a topic arising out of Scribner's contribution to Concordia University's fall institute on “Political Challenges of/for/in 21st Century Schools: Addressing Polarization in the Classroom.” There's a lot of talk about "small-c conservatism" in this one.

For more of Cam's work, click here, here, and here.

For Kathleen's work. click here, here, and here.

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