Thinking in the Midst

Nicholas Tampio and Kathy Hytten join Cara and Derek to talk about Dewey, political saturation, democratic habits, and how expensive youth hockey is.

For Kathy's works, click here and here

For Nick's edition and intro to Democracy and Education, click here. And for his Common Core book, click here. And for public-facing work on Dewey, click here.

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A live episode! GroundWorks's 2024 edition features a piece on "Systemic Indoctrination" by Fedor Korochkin, and in an event held Tuesday, January 14th, he gave it as a talk, with Christopher Martin and Rebecca Taylor responding, and followed by a Q&A session.

Here is the paper at the GroundWorks website, and

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Doctoral students Phoebe Gilpin, Martha Perez-Mugg, and Arham Kazi sit down with Cara and Derek to talk about the writings that drew them to philosophy in the first place, the books they've encountered through their studies, and the works that they find themselves drawing upon in their own writing, as well.

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Works we talked about in this episode:

Plato's Euthyphro

David Labaree, "Public Goods, Private Goods"

bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress

Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish

Bruno Latour, Laboratory Life

Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life

Sara Ahmed, On Being Included

Natasha Myers, Rendering Life Molecular

José Medina Epistemology of Resistance

Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

Tithi Bhattacharya, ed. Social Reproduction Theory

David Mitchell, Biopolitics of Ability

Jess Calarco, Holding It Together

Catherine Elgin, True Enough

Naomi Oreskes, Why Trust Science?

Savannah Shange, Progressive Dystopia

Dave Backer and Heather DuBois Bourenane join Cara and Derek to talk about how schools are funded, the way investment vehicles (as well as quantities) reflect certain social commitments, and what it all means for the way we (literally) value schooling.

For Heather's organization, WPEN, click here.

For Dave's forthcoming book, click here.

The Shanker Institute's School Finance Indicators Database

The bond statement search engine that Dave mentioned.

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This week, we present another cross-posted episode -- this time featuring Cara's podcast Teaching from an Ethical Center. This week's guest, Jia Lee, talks to Cara about the idea of adapting curriculum to fit her students, the idea of "fidelity" as policymakers and curriculum designers use the term, and what else it might mean, as well.

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In this episode, we're featuring a philosophical conversation in a different register, re-releasing a conversation between Derek and Annie Schultz about the 1998 film You've Got Mail. Is Nora Ephron an early object-oriented ontologist? What can we expect or hope to learn from fictional characters?

The New Yorker article on Nora Ephron we referenced

The Atlantic piece on the gentrification of the self.

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PEN America's Jeremy Young and the University of Connecticut's Michael Lynch join Cara and Derek to talk about the use of state power to restrict what can be discussed and studied in educational institutions, particularly, though not exclusively, colleges and universities.

Jeremy's report, America's Censored Classrooms 2024

Michael's forthcoming On Truth in Politics (available for preorder)

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Casey Burkholder, Stephanie Jones, and Lauren Bialystok join Cara and Derek to talk about what ELSE we're teaching when we teach -- and argue about -- sexuality, and how it might be different.

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

Here is Lauren's book, and here is the book chapter she mentioned in the episode.

And for Stephanie's work, click here, here, here, and here.

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Katie Sellars and Alex Nikolaidis sit down with Cara and Derek to talk about their experiences with academic conferences in general, and with the Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society in particular.

For Alex's work, see his website.

For Katie's projects, see her website, too.

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Sara Hardman and Elizabeth O'Brien join Cara and Derek to talk about -- I don't know how else to say it -- the mattering of the spaces where teachers work and children learn: how valorization and valuation work in and through educational settings.

For Elizabeth's book, click here.

For Sara's dissertation, hopefully a preview of the book to come, click here.

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