Podcasts about Pedagogy

What if professional learning didn't require another workshop, another hour-long meeting, or another document sitting unopened on your desk?Dr. Wanda Terral found a surprisingly simple starting point: fortune cookies.Her book, Fortune Cookie Pedagogy, transforms short fortune-cookie messages into opportunities for educators to pause, reflect, and think differently about their practice. The idea grew from the hundreds of fortunes Wanda collected and eventually became a book featuring the voices and experiences of more than 30 educators.But the real lesson isn't about fortune cookies. It's about bite-sized reflection.Wanda explains why traditional reflection tools can fail when educators lack time to use them, and how micro-reflections can make professional learning more manageable. She also shares how experiences as a band director shaped her thinking about iteration: identify what isn't working, make a change, try again, and keep moving.The conversation also gets into authenticity, imposter syndrome, classroom safety, student connection, SEL, and what it means to create environments where students can be themselves within meaningful boundaries.And yes, we talk about AI.Wanda describes how she used Gemini to identify patterns and organize her thinking while writing the book. The important distinction? The AI didn't replace her thinking. It helped her think.If you're looking for professional learning you can actually use, this conversation is packed with small ideas that can lead to meaningful changes.You'll LearnHow a simple fortune-cookie message became the foundation for an entire approach to educator reflection.Why micro-reflection can be more practical than traditional reflection exercises.How to make reflection small enough to fit into the realities of an educator's day.Why iteration and mistakes can become powerful drivers of professional growth.How discontent can sometimes provide the motivation needed to improve practice.Why student safety and connection have to come before meaningful learning can happen.How educators can create classrooms where students can be themselves while still respecting boundaries.Why authenticity matters when educators are trying to avoid burnout and the pressure to become someone they're not.How imposter syndrome can affect educators—and how putting your thoughts into words can help move past it.How Wanda used Gemini to identify patterns and organize ideas while keeping the actual thinking and decisions human.How educators can use AI to handle minutiae while preserving professional judgment.Why bite-sized stories and reflections can make professional learning more accessible.Mentioned in This EpisodeFortune Cookie PedagogyDr. Wanda Terral's book, Fortune Cookie Pedagogy, uses fortune-cookie messages as prompts for educational reflection and features contributions from more than 30 educators.What Are We Listening To?Everything Is FakeChris recommends the BBC podcast Everything Is Fake and Nobody Cares, hosted by Jamie Bartlett.ESPN 30 for 30 Podcast — The Betrayal of Shohei OhtaniAJ recommends the ESPN 30 for 30 podcast episode examining the relationship between Shohei Ohtani and his former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara.Chief Story OfficerWanda recommends Chief Story Officer with Rob D. Willis, which she found useful while learning more about storytelling and how leaders can strategically use stories.StoryworthyChris recommends Matthew Dicks' Storyworthy as a resource for developing and telling engaging stories.

In this week's episode, Fin tackles a huge subject - additional learning needs (ALN). Following ALN reform in Wales, schools are struggling to give pupils the provision they need. Fin looks at what schools are experiencing, what the evidence tells us, and what solutions are out there.Autumn workshops and events:Self-Evaluation Workshop – South Wales: Oct. 7th, North Wales: Oct 15th:https://app.smore.com/n/wgrxe-self-evaluation-workshopImproving Attention Workshop – South Wales: Nov 12th, North Wales: Nov. 19th:https://app.smore.com/n/hk10my-improving-attention-workshop rEDCymru Bach: Where do we go now? Debate and discussion about the future direction of education in Wales, Chapter Arts Centre Cardiff – Oct 8th, 5pm-7pm: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/redcymru-bach-where-do-we-go-now-tickets-2001447282700Social media:​Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/impactwales123​Private Facebook group for teachers: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1099646660713906/​Bluesky: @impactwales.bsky.social​Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/impactwales/​X/Twitter: https://x.com/impactwalesContact:Email: fin@impact.walesTel: 029 2167 9140BOOKSPRE-ORDER FIN'S NEW BOOK:The Illustrated Pocket Guide to Teaching & Learning: https://amzn.to/3P9yJObThe Illustrated Guide to Pedagogy:https://amzn.to/4lsupnbClosing the Disadvantage Gap:https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1032824107/Power Up Your Pedagogy:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Up-Your-Pedagogy-Illustrated/dp/1398388068Subscribe to ImpactPlus today:www.impact.wales/impactplusPRODUCTIONHost: Finola WilsonProducer: Darren EvansVisit us at: www.impact.walesMusic: Power Shutoff by Craig MacArthur

Five years after her first appearance on Switched on Pop, Carly Rae Jepsen returns to the podcast to talk all things Day and Night, her latest album. Born out of Swedish disco, big emotion, and substantive life change – including becoming a wife and a mother – the double album is a tour through the organic and the synthetic, both in equal measure. For Charlie and Nate, this is a full circle moment, and along with discussing the record, the two talk to Jepsen about the origins of the show, her songwriting process, and what it means to be such an important champion of pop music. CREDITS  Reanna Cruz: Producer  Iris Gottlieb: Illustrator  Charlie Harding: Host, Executive Producer  Dion Lee: Art Director  Brandon McFarland: Audio Engineer  Nick Ripps: Video Editor  Nate Sloan: Host  Lissa Soep: Editor  Zach Tenorio & Jocie Adams: Theme Composers  Switched On Pop is a co-production of Vox Media Podcast Network, Vulture, and Rock Ridge Productions. Links: ⁠⁠Newsletter⁠⁠  Songs discussed: Carly Rae Jepsen, “After All” Carly Rae Jepsen, “Versailles” Carly Rae Jepsen, “Don't Leave Me on the Dance Floor” Carly Rae Jepsen, “Near or Far” Carly Rae Jepsen, “Motivation” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Author Tamanna M. Shah discusses the article, "Artificial Intelligence and the Sociological Imagination: Cultivating Reflexive Algorithmic Capital through Sociology Pedagogy," published in the October 2026 issue of Teaching Sociology.

"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast which brings listeners to the frontline in the battle against antisemitism, hate and extremism through conversations with ADL staff. This podcast focuses on new research released by ADL's Center for Antisemitism Research which shows that a single, ordinary class period devoted to antisemitism may be able to measurably reduce teenagers' endorsement of antisemitic conspiracy tropes. That finding held up across a randomized study of hundreds of students and then again when researchers tested the lesson's core framing in a national follow-up study involving more than 5,000 additional students. At a moment when antisemitism is at historic highs and educators feel overwhelmed and under-resourced, this is an extremely helpful and hopeful study. It suggests that the fight against antisemitism doesn't always require a massive new investment or a semester-long curriculum overhaul. Sometimes, it just requires the right 45 minutes. This podcast features ADL New York/New Jersey Regional Director Scott Richman in conversation with Jesse Tannetta, the Director of Holocaust Content and Pedagogy at Echoes & Reflections, the ADL educational partner that developed the very lesson at the center of this research. Here are links to the resources mentioned during the webinar: - Details on the lesson and the research: https://www.adl.org/resources/report/classroom-lesson-lowers-teens-belief-antisemitic-tropes - Echoes Connect: https://echoesandreflections.org/echoes-connect/ This conversation was recorded in September 2026.

We've talked about the attention economy more than once on this podcast, and the diagnosis hasn't changed: nearly everything around us is built to capture our attention and then sell it. What we haven't asked is what all that scrambling is supposed to be rescuing us from. The answer, it turns out, is boredom. Nobody pays cash to be bored and no app is designed to deliver it, yet a small but noticeable number of young people are now trading smartphones for flip phones and forming "Luddite clubs," as if boredom were something you had to go out of your way to find. Boredom appears to be unbearable and endangered at the same time.So what, if anything, is worth defending in it? Is the boredom of the DMV waiting room the same thing as the boredom of a committee meeting, or the boredom of a long walk with nothing to look at? If boredom really does free up the mind for reflection and imagination, doesn't that mean we've stopped being bored the moment the good stuff starts? And when people praise the restful, restorative kind of boredom, are they describing an experience available to everyone, or a luxury only some of us can afford?No guest this week, just three co-hosts who turn out to disagree about nearly all of it. Bob comes to the defense of boredom by way of Heidegger's "profound boredom" and Kierkegaard's advice to rotate your pleasures like crops. Jen keeps returning to Aquinas and the medieval worry that boredom is a failure to train one's own mind, which makes it something closer to a vice. Leigh confesses that she is allergic to the whole thing and cannot find anything good in boredom that isn't secretly a description of its cure. Along the way you'll hear about racing raindrops on a school bus window, camp kids left to their own devices, Dorian Gray, and why immortality might be the most boring thing imaginable.Grab a drink and join us as we spend an hour trying to say something interesting about the one thing nobody can sell you.Full episode notes available at this link:https://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/episode-239-boredom/---------------------SUBSCRIBE to the podcast now to automatically download new episodes!SUPPORT Hotel Bar Sessions podcast on Patreon here! (Or by contributing one-time donations here!)BOOKMARK the Hotel Bar Sessions website here for detailed show notes and reading lists, and contact any of our co-hosts here.Hotel Bar Sessions is also on Facebook, YouTube, BlueSky, Instagram, and TikTok. Like, follow, share, duet, whatever... just make sure your friends know about us! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Dr. Brian Jones, Senior Director of Reading and Engagement at the New York Public Library, talks with Dr. Robert Robinson, assistant professor in Africana Studies and Gender Studies, Urban Studies, and Interactive Technology and Pedagogy at John Jay and the Graduate Center, about Brian's book Black History Is for Everyone. Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more information.

In this engaging conversation with best-selling author of The Sober Girl Society Handbook and founder of the global Sober Girl Society, Millie Gooch talks hangxiety with Mandy Manners, SHE RECOVERS Trusted Advisor and Coach.Throughout this discussion, Millie and Mandy explore the gaps they felt in understanding the information they had on how alcohol affects the brain—which became the background for Millie's new book: Hangxiety. They talk about anxiety, blackouts, and depression, and how they connected dots of their own alcohol use in relation to the impact on their own mental health, because they found these things were kept very separate in treatment. In this episode, Millie and Mandy speak about how knowledge is power and seems to lessen shame. And how not drinking feels like self-care for the brain. They also touch upon late-diagnosed neurodivergence and the emerging research on its links to alcohol use and addiction. Millie got sober in her 20s and founded Sober Girl Society to make friends. Hosting events allowed her to tackle the barriers she felt young women like her may face doing things like dancing, holidays, and dating without alcohol. With over 200K followers, Millie also chats about having boundaries around social media and what it's like to navigate life online. About Millie Gooch:Millie Gooch is the best-selling author of The Sober Girl Society Handbook and founder of the global Sober Girl Society movement. Since giving up alcohol in 2018, she has become one of the UK's most visible and relatable voices on alcohol-free living, with a platform that now reaches millions of people across social media and live events. Hangxiety is  Millie's third book.About Mandy Manners:Mandy Manners is a certified life and recovery coach. A qualified coach supervisor, trainer, speaker, and author. She is a certified SHE RECOVERS Coach and Trusted Advisor for Education and Pedagogy for the SHE RECOVERS Foundation.EPISODE RESOURCESHangxiety — the bookThe Sober Girl Society on Instagram The Sober Girl Society on TikTok Millie Gooch on Instagram Millie Gooch on TikTok Mandy Manners website Drink - book by Anne Dowsett JohnstonIf you found this conversation helpful and you are able, please consider donating to our lifeline organization or sharing it with others who may benefit. We would love to also receive your rating and review of the SHE RECOVERS Podcast on your favorite platform.Visit sherecovers.org to donate today.

A week after the PISA test results were released, the Welsh Government launched its Foundational Literacy and Numeracy Plan. In this episode, Fin goes through the detail of the plan and asks whether it will have the impact it needs on standards and outcomes.Links from this episode:Self-Evaluation Workshop – South Wales: Oct. 7th, North Wales: Oct 15th:https://app.smore.com/n/wgrxe-self-evaluation-workshopImproving Attention Workshop – South Wales: Nov 12th, North Wales: Nov. 19th:https://app.smore.com/n/hk10my-improving-attention-workshop Foundational Literacy and Numeracy Plan:https://www.gov.wales/foundational-literacy-and-numeracy-plan rEDCymru Bach: Where do we go now? Debate and discussion about the future direction of education in Wales, Chapter Arts Centre Cardiff – Oct 8th, 5pm-7pm: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/redcymru-bach-where-do-we-go-now-tickets-2001447282700Social media:Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/impactwales123Private Facebook group for teachers: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1099646660713906/Bluesky: @impactwales.bsky.socialInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/impactwales/X/Twitter: https://x.com/impactwalesContact:Email: enquiries@impact.wales Tel: 029 2167 9140BOOKSPRE-ORDER FIN'S NEW BOOK:The Illustrated Pocket Guide to Teaching & Learning: https://amzn.to/3P9yJObThe Illustrated Guide to Pedagogy:https://amzn.to/4lsupnbClosing the Disadvantage Gap:https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1032824107/Power Up Your Pedagogy:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Up-Your-Pedagogy-Illustrated/dp/1398388068Subscribe to ImpactPlus today:www.impact.wales/impactplusPRODUCTIONHost: Finola WilsonProducer: Darren EvansVisit us at: www.impact.walesMusic: Power Shutoff by Craig MacArthur

Headlines for September 22, 2026; Climate Activists Target AI Data Centers & Amazon’s Plan to Build Largest U.S. Gas Power Plant; “Politics Are Desperately Important at the Moment”: Bill McKibben on Midterms, Trump & Climate Crisis; Could Cuba Become a “Silent Gaza”? U.S. Fuel Blockade Aims to “Asphyxiate” Island: Top Cuban Diplomat; “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” Brazilian Educator Paulo Freire Profiled in Film, “Reading the World”

Headlines for September 22, 2026; Climate Activists Target AI Data Centers & Amazon’s Plan to Build Largest U.S. Gas Power Plant; “Politics Are Desperately Important at the Moment”: Bill McKibben on Midterms, Trump & Climate Crisis; Could Cuba Become a “Silent Gaza”? U.S. Fuel Blockade Aims to “Asphyxiate” Island: Top Cuban Diplomat; “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” Brazilian Educator Paulo Freire Profiled in Film, “Reading the World”

On today's episode we explore the development of secondary education in Georgia in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union and subsequent marketization processes. The education sector widely privatized resulting in lower quality education, poverty wages for teachers and ideological conflicts over curriculum. Why did this happen and what does it mean for secondary education in Georgia today? Our guest is education expert and former school teacher Nika MaglaperidzeNika Maglaperidze is a PhD student and administrator at the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy at Maynooth University, Ireland. His research interests focus on educational theory, continental pedagogy, and curriculum studies. He is a former school teacher.Read Nika's recent article here:https://pie.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/pie/article/view/1967Episode music:პანიკა - "სიგარეტი კლავს"

Dr. Taemin Ha (CUNY-Queens College) comes on to share about a recent publication from a team of scholars who know a thing or two about CSPAP. The article provides great recommendations on how to infuse parts of CSPAP education into any program. Ha, T., Paulson, L., Moon, J., Dauenhauer, B., & Webster, C. A. Preparing Future Whole-of-School Physical Activity Leaders: Recommendations for Physical Education Teacher Education. Pedagogy in Health Promotion, 23733799261468725.

Blending surrealism, satire and philosophical concepts, Booker Prize-longlisted Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman weaves a tale of beginnings following a disgraced professor who moves into a house where the presence of the previous owner lingers. Makenna joins us to talk about narrative form, stand-up comedy, and the dynamism of nature with cohost Jenna Seery. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Jenna Seery and mixed by Harry Liang. New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books: Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman Living the Good Life by Scott & Helen Nearing All Fours by Miranda July Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel The Power of Now by Eckart Tolle Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Friere The Summer Book by Tove Jansson The Moomin Series by Tove Jansson The Wall by Marlen Haushofer Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

How does a large, busy school move from "islands of excellence" to a coherent, low-variance instructional model? In this episode, Brendan Lee sits down with staff from the Junior School of Trinity Anglican College, Albury— Simon Fairall (Deputy Principal - Junior School), Lauren Naldrett (Dean of Studies - Junior School) and Kirby McDonald (Classroom teacher and Practice and Pedagogy lead)—to unpack their multi-year journey into the Science of Learning. We dive deep into how to manage teacher cognitive load by strategically sharing curriculum planning and resource development. The practical reality of navigating change management, moving from individual teacher flair to system-wide instructional coherence and how applying the instructional hierarchy and deliberate practice routines can fundamentally shift classroom engagement.  This conversation is a masterclass in building a culture where research-grounded practice and a deep sense of professional belonging go hand-in-hand. Resources mentioned: Facts on Fire (by Dr Brian Poncy) La Trobe University AIS NSW Literacy Project You can connect with Trinity Anglican College: Instagram: @trinityanglicancollege/ Facebook: @TrinityAnglicanCollegeAlburyWodonga Website: https://www.trinityac.nsw.edu.au/   You can connect with Brendan: Twitter/X: @learnwithmrlee Facebook: @learningwithmrlee Linkedin: @brendan-lee-kft Website:learnwithlee.net Substack: knowledgeforteachers.substack.com/   Support the Knowledge for Teachers Podcast:  https://www.patreon.com/KnowledgeforTeachersPodcast

Over the past several decades, Anglophone philosophy has been trying to remember that it wasn't born in Athens. Syllabi now include Confucius and the Buddha, journals run special issues on Africana and Indigenous thought, and "global philosophy" has become a recognized field. Yet, one of the world's largest religious traditions, with a scripture that is entirely philosophical poetry meant to be sung, has been almost completely absent from that expanded conversation. Sikhism gets left out not because it lacks a systematic ethics, but because almost no one working in Anglophone philosophy has bothered to look.This week the HBS co-hosts are joined by Dr. Keshav Singh, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and author of the new (and open-access) Cambridge Element Sikh Ethics. Keshav works in ethics and epistemology, and his recent research uses the tools of analytic philosophy to reconstruct Sikh moral thought on its own terms rather than forcing it into categories the Western tradition already decided were the important ones. He walks us through the two levels of reality, the three terms he refuses to translate (hukam, haumai, sachiara), the "Five Thieves"(vices), and why running off to a mountaintop to seek enlightenment would be, by Sikh lights, a moral failure.Grab a drink and join us as we find out why truth is higher than everything, but truthful living is higher still.Full episode notes available at this link:https://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/sikhethics---------------------SUBSCRIBE to the podcast now to automatically download new episodes!SUPPORT Hotel Bar Sessions podcast on Patreon here! (Or by contributing one-time donations here!)BOOKMARK the Hotel Bar Sessions website here for detailed show notes and reading lists, and contact any of our co-hosts here.Hotel Bar Sessions is also on Facebook, YouTube, BlueSky, Instagram, and TikTok. Like, follow, share, duet, whatever... just make sure your friends know about us! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The recently released PISA test results showed Wales has fallen further behind the rest of the UK. In this episode, Fin looks at the results, what they mean for education in Wales and what needs to be done next. Social media:Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/impactwales123Private Facebook group for teachers: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1099646660713906/Bluesky: @impactwales.bsky.socialInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/impactwales/X/Twitter: https://x.com/impactwalesContact:Email: enquiries@impact.wales Tel: 029 2167 9140BOOKSPRE-ORDER FIN'S NEW BOOK:The Illustrated Pocket Guide to Teaching & Learning: https://amzn.to/3P9yJObThe Illustrated Guide to Pedagogy:https://amzn.to/4lsupnbClosing the Disadvantage Gap:https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1032824107/Power Up Your Pedagogy:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Up-Your-Pedagogy-Illustrated/dp/1398388068Subscribe to ImpactPlus today:www.impact.wales/impactplusPRODUCTIONHost: Finola WilsonProducer: Darren EvansVisit us at: www.impact.walesMusic: Power Shutoff by Craig MacArthur

If your students stop talking only to start right back up again, you're not alone. Tune in as Linda and Sarah discuss practical strategies to reduce side conversations and create a more focused learning environment. 00:00 Introduction to Classroom Challenges 00:59 Understanding Student Distractions 02:10 Establishing Clear Expectations 05:33 Implementing Effective Systems 08:26 The Spiritual Aspect of Classroom Management 10:45 Conclusion and Workshop Invitation LEARN MORE at http://teach4theheart.com/400 Resources/Links Mentioned: Stop the Chatter Workshop: https://teach4theheart.com/chatter How to Do a Classroom Shake Up: https://teach4theheart.com/how-to-fix-a-problem-area-in-your-classroom/ Cult of Pedagogy: https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/notebooks-part-1/  

In this message, we will see how Jesus responds to the faith of Bartimaeus and how we approach Jesus's question, "what do you want me to do for you?"   Scripture: Matt 20:29-24; Mark 10:46-52

Con men: From the sophists of ancient greece to the current grifter in chief, philosophy has been at odds with them for millennia, and given their success, it seems like it's been a losing battle.  Some of their success is because, as one famous grifter remarked, there's a sucker born every minute.  We've seen then in many guises–snake oil salesmen, televangelists, self-help gurus–but there are three today–Jordan Peterson, Elon Musk, and Andrew Tate–who've not only taken the grift to new levels, but also, in so doing, revealed the grift–or rather, disclosed the bad metaphysics and bad politics that make the con possible. This disclosure is precisely what is analyzed in a new book by philosophers Landon Frim and Harrison Fluss--Confidence Men: Peterson, Musk, Tate and the Duping of the American Mind (Penguin 2026).  We're delighted to be joined today by Landon, who helps us understand better what con men are, why they are more than mere liars but rather “enemies of the truth,” why they are most frequently con men, what their philosophical worldview is, the role capitalism plays in the con, and what “good metaphysics” and “good politics” are needed to undermine their efforts and mitigate the conditions of possibility for their continued success.Full episode notes available at this link:https://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/conmen---------------------SUBSCRIBE to the podcast now to automatically download new episodes!SUPPORT Hotel Bar Sessions podcast on Patreon here! (Or by contributing one-time donations here!)BOOKMARK the Hotel Bar Sessions website here for detailed show notes and reading lists, and contact any of our co-hosts here.Hotel Bar Sessions is also on Facebook, YouTube, BlueSky, Instagram, and TikTok. Like, follow, share, duet, whatever... just make sure your friends know about us! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Happy New Year! אַ גוט געבענטשט יאָר Highlights: Rabbi Nasan Maimon discusses Rosh Hashona generally and with the Breslever Chassidim in particular. We reached him on Tues., Sept. 8, via WhatsApp in Bucharest, Romania, which he was passing through on his way Uman, Ukraine. Maimon’s website, Breslov Torah, features his and others’ teachings on Breslov Chassidus. Sholem Beinfeld gives his historian’s perspective on Rosh Hashona, marking the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks as well as more recent events. Sholem is a regular contributor to the Yiddish Voice, co-Editor in Chief of the Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary and Professor of History, Emeritus, Washington University, St. Louis. Sholem spoke to us by phone from his home in Cambridge on Weds, Sept. 9. Adi Mahalel talks about his new post teaching Yiddish studies at Harvard, and also about his recent books, including Boom and Chains: A Yiddish Novel Set in Israel/Palestine, for which he wrote the introduction and translated from the original written in Yiddish by Hanan Ayalti. STUDENTS: it’s not too late to register! Contact the teacher: amahalel at fas.harvard.edu We spoke to Adi at his home in Cambridge via Zoom on Tues., Sept. 8. Emma Breslow talks about her new post teaching Yiddish at Brandeis, and also about her academic research on Yiddish as a minority language, which you can find on her website www.emmabreslow.com. STUDENTS: it’s not too late to register! Contact the teacher: ebreslow at brandeis.edu We spoke to Emma at her home in the Boston area via Zoom on Weds., Sept. 9. Dovid Braun gives a warm greeting for the new year, while also marking the sad passing of Motl Murstein, a friend of the show and frequent guest, whose funeral was yesterday. Dovid also talks about Yiddish at Yivo, where he teaches Yiddish and serves as Academic Advisor in Yiddish Language, Pedagogy and Linguistics. We spoke to Dovid in person during his visit to the Boston area on Weds., Sept. 9. Rosh Hashona Announcements and well-wishes for the new year from sponsors and friends: Mary Erlich and Tania Lefman, Holocaust survivors, for the American Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants of Greater Boston, announcing the annual Yizkor Memorial Service, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026, 10:30 AM, at Brandeis University, Statue of Job, near Berlin Chapel. Eli Dovek, late proprietor of Israel Book Shop (from 2009) Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath, chair of the board of the The League for Yiddish/די ייִדיש-ליגע Libe Gritz for Bostoner Arbeter-Ring Music Instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air date: September 9, 2026

This episode offers insights, ideas and approaches for teaching year 7 classes effectively – including practical ways of preventing the infamous year 7 dip. Our expert panel of three experienced teachers discuss strategies for the year 7 classroom and consider the differences between excellent teaching in year 7 compared with older year groups. Specifically, we consider tips for how to handle the first half-term with your year 7 classes, including how to help pupils settle in well and the learning habits and routines that we need to establish early-on. We talk about how to develop independent learning skills, literacy and reading, oracy, self-regulation and more. We also discuss how to strike the balance between nurturing these young pupils while also maintaining high-expectations and challenge in the classroom. The panel touches upon how we can ensure a broad and balanced curriculum for our youngest pupils, how we can identify the core knowledge and skills needed for pupils at this stage, and the role of extra-curricular work. We consider how teachers can support a smooth transition from primary school – both academically and socially – including tips for the classroom, effective use of tutor time, pastoral support, and advice about what schools often get wrong more generally. We also discuss how to work with the parents of year 7 children.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In case you're not familiar at all with the Katamari video game series. As the player, you navigate this ball that starts off small at first until everything in the environment sticks to you, and by the end of a level you have entire buildings, trees, cars, and all manner of flora and fauna stuck to you. I have the sense that my guest today is a human katamari. Every experience and interaction sticks, and she's made it the mission of her life to make sense of it all. Dr. Jane Shore is an author, artist, former education researcher, co-founder of Revolution School, and founder of School of Thought. But before any of those titles, Jane is first and foremost a meaning-maker, and her most recent book, People Based Learning: The Future of Learning is Human, braids together decades of experience, conversations, models, and research to bear on a new way of organizing learning and schooling:“People-Based Learning is all about the interplay between connecting, reflecting, and affecting, a dynamic spiral or open-end loop that helps us engage meaningfully with new people, ideas, and experiences,” she writes, “At its core, this approach encourages both exploration and introspection, ultimately leading to deeper understanding, deeper personal meaning, deeper memory, and collective growth.”peoplebasedlearning.comPeople Based Learning by Jane Shore

There is a lot of talk about increasing agency in education and schooling, for young people and for teachers and we've done many episodes over the last 6 years that touch on it. But there is a tendency sometimes for discussions of agency to lack a bit of clarity in exactly what we mean by this slippery concept! My guests this week, Profs. Gert Biesta and Mark Priestley, published a seminal book with Sarah Robinson in 2015 on the subject of teacher agency, which moved the field forward hugely. 'Teacher Agency: An Ecological Approach' has just been republished in its second edition last month so I was very keen to talk about it with them. But, while I am fascinated by the concept of agency for many reasons, what particularly attracted me to Gert and Mark's work on this was their 'ecological approach'. Taking an ecological approach to understanding the conditions that give rise to agency, or any other outcome in education for that matter, feels like a really vital way to be approaching our central questions.As a now 3 time guest, Gert is known well to listeners of the podcast, but his he has also recently been appointed as Professor of Education at the University of Melbourne, and since 2023 has served as ordinary member ('kroonlid') of the Education Council of the Netherlands (Onderwijsraad), the advisory body of the Dutch government and parliament on educational matters. He was previously Professor of Public Education in the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy, Maynooth University, Ireland and Professor of Educational Theory and Pedagogy at the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh. He is co-editor of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, and associate editor of Educational Theory, and previously co-editor of the British Educational Research Journal some time ago. Links:https://www.gertbiesta.com/https://www.goodimpactlabs.com/podcast/prof-gert-biestahttps://www.goodimpactlabs.com/podcast/gert-biestaMark Priestley is Professor of Education at the University of Stirling whose research interests lie in the school curriculum – theory, policy and practice – and especially the processes of curriculum making across different layers of education systems. He is the Director of the Stirling Centre for Research into Curriculum Making, a member of the Scottish Government's key education advisory committees, the Scottish Education Council and the Curriculum and Assessment Board, and a Co-Convener of the EERA network 3, Curriculum. Alongside 'Teacher Agency: An Ecological Approach', his publications include 'Curriculum making in Europe: policy and practice within and across diverse contexts'.Links:https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/255862https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/teacher-agency-9781350536333/

You are wearing an outfit right now. Maybe you chose it deliberately this morning, or maybe you grabbed it off the floor, but either way it is currently saying things about your class, your gender, your politics, your relationship to the very idea of caring how you look. Roland Barthes argued that this is what separates fashion from “mere clothing.” Fashion is clothing that has become a language, and the fashion industry is the institution that keeps everyone manufacturing new meanings each season so that garments become obsolete long before they wear out. The genius of the system is that it sells this obligation as “taste,” as “freedom.” Your closet feels like self-expression, while functioning as a subscription service. If fashion is a language, can anyone refuse to speak it? The jeans-and-hoodie crowd, the Amish, and the uniform-wearers of the world would like a word, and one of your three co-hosts (Leigh) is firmly among them.This episode also asks why the same hoodie signifies differently on different bodies, what hair straightening reveals about assimilation and power, how gay men built an entire covert semiotics out of ties and handkerchiefs before Stonewall, and who is actually paying the price, in labor and in landfill, for clothes designed to die young.Grab a drink and join us as two fashion-literate philosophers try to convince their unfashionable friend that nobody, no matter how committed they may be to their hoodie, ever really opts out.Full episode notes available at this link:https://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/fashion---------------------SUBSCRIBE to the podcast now to automatically download new episodes!SUPPORT Hotel Bar Sessions podcast on Patreon here! (Or by contributing one-time donations here!)BOOKMARK the Hotel Bar Sessions website here for detailed show notes and reading lists, and contact any of our co-hosts here.Hotel Bar Sessions is also on Facebook, YouTube, BlueSky, Instagram, and TikTok. Like, follow, share, duet, whatever... just make sure your friends know about us! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

In this teaching Jesus confronts and corrects how we define greatness. In the Gospel, true greatness is given not gained.   Scripture: Matthew 20:17-28

In this episode of Why Distance Learning, Seth talks with Dr. Mark Deschaine - Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Mississippi and editor of the Journal of Contemporary Research in Education - about what online teacher preparation actually requires, and why this moment of institutional disruption represents a structural opening for distance learning. Deschaine draws on three decades of work at the intersection of online learning policy, special education research, and K-12 practitioner experience.Together, Seth, Allyson and Mark explore why teacher preparation programs still treat online instruction as a digital extension of face-to-face teaching rather than its own discipline, and what the NSQOL standards actually get right (and why state adoption is uneven). They trace the structural roots of "à la carte education" — the pandemic-era shift in which parents bypassed school-provided content and found it wasn't that hard — and Mark argues it wasn't an anomaly but a preview. He walks through the three gojies — pedagogy, andragogy, and heutagogy — as a framework for understanding how learner agency changes across contexts, and makes the case that a heutagogical twelve-year-old with internet access could test out of their grade if the system would let them. The conversation builds toward a central claim: what traditional schooling sells isn't content, it's credential and trust — and right now, both are actively eroding through school choice legislation, educational savings accounts, and the dismantling of federal categorical funding. That erosion, Mark says, is where online learning's real opportunity lives. He closes with a preview of decentralized learning, soul-bound tokens as credentialing infrastructure, and the fourth "gogy" he's currently developing — agentagogy — a framework for learning with agentic AI he'll be presenting at AACTE.Key topics:Online teacher preparation as a distinct discipline (not technology added to traditional training)NSQOL standards: what they are, why states adopt them, and where they fall shortÀ la carte education: the post-pandemic structural shift in family-school authorityPedagogy, andragogy, and heutagogy — the three frameworks for learner agencyCredential and trust erosion in traditional schoolingDecentralized learning and soul-bound tokens as credentialing alternativesDiffusion of Innovations: why the DLAC community mattersLinks & Resources:"Ala Carte Education: An Inevitable Outgrowth of COVID?" — Mark Deschaine, Academia Letters, January 2021. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348827105"The Five Cs of Digital Curation: Supporting Twenty-First-Century Teaching and Learning" — Deschaine & Sharma, InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2015. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281641256National Standards for Quality Online Learning (NSQOL): https://nsqol.org/Michigan Virtual: michiganvirtual.orgThe Sources of a Science of Education — John Dewey, 1929. Available free at Project GutenbergThe Reflective Practitioner — Donald Schön https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/donald-a-schon/the-reflective-practitioner/9780786725366/?lens=basic-booksDiffusion of Innovations — Everett Rogers https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Diffusion-of-Innovations-5th-Edition/Everett-M-Rogers/9780743222099Journal of Contemporary Research in Education (JCRE): https://egrove.olemiss.edu/jcre/Guest Bio: Mark E. Deschaine, PhDMark Deschaine is a Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Mississippi, where he prepares MA, EdS, EdD, and PhD candidates for school and district leadership roles and serves as editor of the Journal of Contemporary Research in Education. His research focuses on online learning policy, special education in virtual school settings, and differentiated instruction — grounded in a practitioner career spanning building-level principal, special education teacher, and paraprofessional. He is a Research Fellow at Michigan Virtual and a Leadership Team Member for the National Standards for Quality Online Learning.About the Hosts:Seth Fleischauer is the founder and president of Banyan Global Learning and a host of Why Distance Learning. Through Banyan, he designs live virtual exchange programs that connect K-12 classrooms to global peers and expert facilitators. Find Banyan at banyangloballearning.com.Allyson Mitchell and Tami Moehring are co-hosts of Why Distance Learning and part of the team at CILC, the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration, which connects students to real experts through live virtual field trips and experiences. Find CILC at cilc.org.Why Distance Learning is available at whydistancelearning.transistor.fm.

There are plenty of ready-to-hand moral sanctions for lies told and promises broken. We know how those wrongs work, we know what the apologies sound like, and we know, more or less, how to move on from them. Betrayal is different. Ask anyone who has been betrayed and they'll tell you: the apology did nothing, the explanation did nothing, and the well-meaning friend who said "you should have known better" only made it worse. Something more is wronged in a betrayal than any rule of the relationship, and that something reaches backward as well as forward. Every remembered kindness becomes suspect. So does your own judgment about where to put your trust next time.In this episode, the HBS co-hosts try to name that surplus wrong, and they don't agree on what they find. Is betrayal something that happens in the world, or is it a feeling that only the betrayed person can author? Can you be betrayed by someone who told you it was coming, or by someone forced to do it? What about the self-betrayals we're ordered into, or the ones our own bodies commit? Grab a drink and join us as we pick up where our conversation on trust left off and figure out why nobody wants their last words to be "Et tu, Brute?"Full episode notes available at this link:https://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/betrayal---------------------SUBSCRIBE to the podcast now to automatically download new episodes!SUPPORT Hotel Bar Sessions podcast on Patreon here! (Or by contributing one-time donations here!)BOOKMARK the Hotel Bar Sessions website here for detailed show notes and reading lists, and contact any of our co-hosts here.Hotel Bar Sessions is also on Facebook, YouTube, BlueSky, Instagram, and TikTok. Like, follow, share, duet, whatever... just make sure your friends know about us! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Today I am delighted to talk with Professor Malini Johar Schueller about her new book, Teaching Solidarity: Critical Race Reading recently published by the University of California Press. We talk about the long history of anti-racist education and the attacks on it by the Right. In particular, we look at the onslaught of federal and state repression since the first Trump regime, and conservative incursions onto campuses take the form of surveillance of syllabi, classrooms, public events, and the establishing of conservative centers. We finish by talking about what Schuller calls critical race reading, a manner of presenting and discussing texts that develops an understanding of structural violence, and critical ways of engaging with literature that enables civil and political engagement. We press the point that these attacks, instrumentalizing the idea of student “discomfort,” severely underestimate students' hunger for knowledge and their ability to withstand so-called discomfort in the search for truth. Malini Johar Schueller is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Florida.  She is the faculty advisor for Students for Justice in Palestine and was the advisor for Jewish Voice for Peace and is a member of the organizing collective for the United States Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.  She is the author of several books including U.S. Orientalisms: Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature, 1790–1890 (1998), Locating Race: Global Sites of Post-Colonial Citizenship (2009), and Campaigns of Knowledge: U.S. Pedagogies of Colonialism and Occupation in the Philippines and Japan (2019).  She has co-edited Exceptional State: Contemporary US Culture and the New Imperialism (2007) and Dangerous Professors: Academic Freedom and the National Security Campus (2009). She is the director of an award-winning documentary, In His Own Home (2015) about police brutality and campus militarization, based on an incident at UF is available on amazon prime.  In 2019 she was selected to participate in a Faculty Development Seminar by the Palestinian American Research Council and traveled to the West Bank. Her latest book on activist pedagogy, Teaching Solidarity: Critical Race Reading was published by the University of California Press in April 2026.  Her essays have appeared in scholarly journals as well as in popular publications such as Counterpunch, The Orlando Sentinel, and the Sarasota Herald Tribune.  She teaches courses in comparative settler colonialism, including Palestine and courses in postcolonial theory, Asian American studies, and US imperialism. 

In this message, we'll look at a reassuring parable of Jesus showing that His Kingdom doesn't operate like the Kingdoms of our world. In doing so, we'll examine how His saving and rewarding grace is what is to drive our labor for His Kingdom, not our own works. Scripture: Matthew 20:1-16

Today's episode is sponsored by WeVideo, the interactive video platform for educators. With WeVideo, you can easily assign projects, collaborate in real-time, and embed interactive questions into your videos to boost classroom engagement. Meet students where they are and develop crucial 21st-century skills. Try WeVideo today at wevideo.com/education.Remember being told comic books did not count as real reading? That same rigid mindset is still shutting down student engagement in classrooms today. In this episode, Dr. Sawsan Jaber walks us through her revolutionary human centered framework designed to transform instructional practice. Learn the exact Name, Notice, and Interrupt process that moves learning from cold mechanics into heart, mind, and global community connection. Stop accidentally deflating student curiosity and start building a culture where every learner feels seen.Connect With Gabriel CarrilloEdTech Bites Website: https://edtechbites.comEdTech Bites On Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/edtechbites.bsky.socialEdTech Bites Instagram: https://instagram.com/edtechbitesEdTech Bites X: https://twitter.com/edtechbitesEdTech Bites Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/edtechbitesEdTech Bites On TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@edtechbitesEdTech Bites YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@edtechbitesAbout Dr. Sawsan JaberDr. Sawsan Jaber, NBCT, is an award-winning global educator, keynote speaker, and founder of Dr. Sawsan Jaber Consulting. With over 20 years of experience in leadership and equity strategy, she created the Human-Centered Pedagogy Framework to reimagine teaching around dignity, agency, and social change. A university professor and coauthor of the bestselling book Pedagogies of Voice, Dr. Jaber equips educators to dismantle systemic barriers and build inclusive, humanizing classrooms where every student thrives.Connect With Dr. Sawsan JaberDr. Sawsan Jaber's Website: https://drsawsanjaber.comDr. Sawsan Jaber On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sjeducate/?hl=enDr. Sawsan Jaber On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-sawsan-jaber-nbct-5835ab242/

At the beginning of April, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed from Ben Appel titled "I'm Gay, but That Doesn't Make Me Queer." On the last day of Pride Month 2026, the New York Times followed with an op-ed by Matthew Vines titled "I'm Gay, Not Queer. It Matters." Both were written by white, cisgender gay men, and both made the same argument: the hard-won gains of the gay rights movement are now endangered by queer people, queer politics, queer theory, and maybe even the word "queer" itself. Most public responses treated this as a quarrel over vocabulary, as if the authors had merely declined a label that others remain free to adopt, but what the op-eds actually proposed is a trade, in which some letters of the alphabet community purchase their safety by cutting loose the people who make "normal" nervous.The HBS co-hosts are not inclined to take that deal. But refusing it requires answering some hard questions: what does "queer" name, exactly, when it can function as a slur, an identity, a coalition, and a verb? Who gets to decide when a wound-word has been reclaimed, and who is still entitled to flinch at it? If queering something means exposing the instability of the categories we call normal, what happens when we point that lens at politics itself? Grab a drink and join us as we take the bait, talk back to the op-eds, and explain why normal was never all that normal to begin with.Full episode notes available at this link:https://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/theqword---------------------SUBSCRIBE to the podcast now to automatically download new episodes!SUPPORT Hotel Bar Sessions podcast on Patreon here! (Or by contributing one-time donations here!)BOOKMARK the Hotel Bar Sessions website here for detailed show notes and reading lists, and contact any of our co-hosts here.Hotel Bar Sessions is also on Facebook, YouTube, BlueSky, Instagram, and TikTok. Like, follow, share, duet, whatever... just make sure your friends know about us! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This talk was given by Matthew Brensilver on 2026.08.19 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Video of this talk is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hMKamUbh7k. ******* For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org ******* If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/. ******* This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License

Pedagogies of Value: Marketing Foreign Goods in China (Berghahn, 2026) by Dr. Máximo Badaró explores how China is reshaping global hierarchies of worth. Through ethnographic research among marketers, consultants, and brokers who promote foreign goods in Shanghai, Beijing, and beyond, this book investigates how value is taught, contested, and transformed in everyday encounters. From luxury brands and consumer ethnography to real estate, wine, and organic food, the book reveals how foreign intermediaries attempt to ‘educate' Chinese consumers, only to confront shifting power dynamics that challenge Western authority. Blending vivid narratives with sharp analysis, this study argues that China has become a central arena for reimagining the very meaning of value.  This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. You can find Miranda's interviews on New Books with Miranda Melcher, wherever you get your podcasts.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Pedagogies of Value: Marketing Foreign Goods in China (Berghahn, 2026) by Dr. Máximo Badaró explores how China is reshaping global hierarchies of worth. Through ethnographic research among marketers, consultants, and brokers who promote foreign goods in Shanghai, Beijing, and beyond, this book investigates how value is taught, contested, and transformed in everyday encounters. From luxury brands and consumer ethnography to real estate, wine, and organic food, the book reveals how foreign intermediaries attempt to ‘educate' Chinese consumers, only to confront shifting power dynamics that challenge Western authority. Blending vivid narratives with sharp analysis, this study argues that China has become a central arena for reimagining the very meaning of value.  This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. You can find Miranda's interviews on New Books with Miranda Melcher, wherever you get your podcasts.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

Pedagogies of Value: Marketing Foreign Goods in China (Berghahn, 2026) by Dr. Máximo Badaró explores how China is reshaping global hierarchies of worth. Through ethnographic research among marketers, consultants, and brokers who promote foreign goods in Shanghai, Beijing, and beyond, this book investigates how value is taught, contested, and transformed in everyday encounters. From luxury brands and consumer ethnography to real estate, wine, and organic food, the book reveals how foreign intermediaries attempt to ‘educate' Chinese consumers, only to confront shifting power dynamics that challenge Western authority. Blending vivid narratives with sharp analysis, this study argues that China has become a central arena for reimagining the very meaning of value.  This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. You can find Miranda's interviews on New Books with Miranda Melcher, wherever you get your podcasts.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/chinese-studies

Pedagogies of Value: Marketing Foreign Goods in China (Berghahn, 2026) by Dr. Máximo Badaró explores how China is reshaping global hierarchies of worth. Through ethnographic research among marketers, consultants, and brokers who promote foreign goods in Shanghai, Beijing, and beyond, this book investigates how value is taught, contested, and transformed in everyday encounters. From luxury brands and consumer ethnography to real estate, wine, and organic food, the book reveals how foreign intermediaries attempt to ‘educate' Chinese consumers, only to confront shifting power dynamics that challenge Western authority. Blending vivid narratives with sharp analysis, this study argues that China has become a central arena for reimagining the very meaning of value.  This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. You can find Miranda's interviews on New Books with Miranda Melcher, wherever you get your podcasts.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pedagogies of Value: Marketing Foreign Goods in China (Berghahn, 2026) by Dr. Máximo Badaró explores how China is reshaping global hierarchies of worth. Through ethnographic research among marketers, consultants, and brokers who promote foreign goods in Shanghai, Beijing, and beyond, this book investigates how value is taught, contested, and transformed in everyday encounters. From luxury brands and consumer ethnography to real estate, wine, and organic food, the book reveals how foreign intermediaries attempt to ‘educate' Chinese consumers, only to confront shifting power dynamics that challenge Western authority. Blending vivid narratives with sharp analysis, this study argues that China has become a central arena for reimagining the very meaning of value.  This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. You can find Miranda's interviews on New Books with Miranda Melcher, wherever you get your podcasts.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We live in an age with a curiously cheerful relationship to failure.  But that optimism was built for a world that no longer quite exists. For three generations now, doing everything right-- getting an education,  holding down a full-time job, following the sensible plan--  has stopped reliably buying a house or a secure retirement. When a single failure can be genuinely ruinous, the advice to dust yourself off and "fail fast, fail forward, fail better"  starts to sound like a privilege reserved for those who can already afford it.So what actually is failure? Who who sets the standard?  Is failure really as generative as we like to tell ourselves,  or is that a comforting story that only holds up when the stakes are low? Can a person fail at life, or only in it? And if our failures have become so devastating that no one dares risk them, is the fix a better attitude toward failing, or a world that stops punishing people so severely for it?This week, we take seriously the possibility that our growing dread of failure is  a rational response to a world that has made failing unaffordable. The real answer, we suggest, may be less about how to fail better and more about how to build a world where other people's failures aren't so ruinous.Grab a drink and join us as we fail our way through Beckett, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Camus toward some clearer sense of what it means to fall short — and toward imagining Sisyphus, if not happy, then at least clear-eyed.Full episode notes available at this link:https://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/failure---------------------SUBSCRIBE to the podcast now to automatically download new episodes!SUPPORT Hotel Bar Sessions podcast on Patreon here! (Or by contributing one-time donations here!)BOOKMARK the Hotel Bar Sessions website here for detailed show notes and reading lists, and contact any of our co-hosts here.Hotel Bar Sessions is also on Facebook, YouTube, BlueSky, Instagram, and TikTok. Like, follow, share, duet, whatever... just make sure your friends know about us! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Blood on the Sawdust: The Brutal World of Victorian Boxing Episode Overview In this 9th Anniversary Special, we step out of the West End drawing rooms and into the blood-flecked, sawdust-covered floors of 19th-century “Fancy” public houses. Inspired by the depiction of East End street culture in A Thousand Blows, this episode explores the history of Victorian boxing—from the illegal bare-knuckle bouts of the Regency era to the gentrified, gloved sport codified under the Marquess of Queensberry Rules. We examine how prizefighting evolved from a brutal survival strategy into a national obsession, the legal cat-and-mouse games played across county lines, and the medical and physical toll extracted from the fighters. We also dive into the remarkable life of international combat instructor Colonel Thomas Hoyer Monstery and uncover the overlooked history of 19th-century female prizefighters. Key Topics Covered: Housekeeping & AI Voice Policy: Why the podcast is permanently stepping away from AI-generated voice models in favour of human research, along with updates on replacement recording equipment and audio access. The “Sweet Science” & Prizefighting History: How bare-knuckle fighting functioned as a mix of martial arts, local wrestling, and survival in an era where the body was often a worker’s sole asset. The Structural Cage of the Law: The jurisdictional loopholes that allowed fights to flourish on county borders, and the evolution of legal precedents from R v Billingham (1825) to R v Coney (1882). The Aristocratic “Fancy” & Early Pioneers: The rise of sports journalism via Pierce Egan's Boxiana, and landmark international contests like the 1810 bout between Tom Cribb and former American slave Tom Molineaux. Case Study – The Ruin of Harry Broome: Following the career arc of Harry Broome from his controversial match at Acorn Bridge to his defeat by Tom Paddock and his eventual death in poverty. The Queensberry Transition: Why the introduction of gloves in 1867 was viewed with suspicion by working-class fighters, and how padded gloves inadvertently increased the long-term risk of chronic brain injury. Gentlemen, Self-Defence & Martial Arts: Highlights from Colonel Thomas Hoyer Monstery's C19th treatise Self Defence for Ladies and Gentlemen, including his views on boxing over firearms and his praise for female swordmasters. Women in the Ring: The subversion of Victorian gender norms, focusing on the 1888 world championship bout between Hattie Leslie and Alice Leary, and the legal outrage that followed. 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Our guest for this episode, Jon Ivan Gill (Gustavus Adolphus College), argues in his recent book, Multi/Race/Less/Ness (Bloomsbury, 2025) that race is trauma. Not that race "causes" trauma, but rather that the assignment of metaphysically fixed and static racial categories to people is itself a trauma.  Gill contends that we are coerced to accept the limitations imposed by racial categories, which not only severely restrict our life possibilities, but cause us to fundamentally misapprehend the dynamic, ever-changing, and ever-evolving reality of human being and human identity, which is always in flux.In an innovative reformulation of well-worn race-abolitionist positions, Gill rejects racial categories as "useless abstractions" and refuses to adopt them as identifiers. While acknowledging that he cannot stop others from identifying him racially, he recommends to the rest of us what he calls "multi/race/less/ness," a dynamic category (inspired by Whitehead's process philosophy) that provides more breathing room for navigating the often suffocating metaphysics of race. Grab a drink and join us for this frank and substantive exchange, with many significant disagreements unpacked along the way about what is and is not worth preserving in the category of "race," and how.Full episode notes available at this link:https://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/multiracelessness---------------------SUBSCRIBE to the podcast now to automatically download new episodes!SUPPORT Hotel Bar Sessions podcast on Patreon here! (Or by contributing one-time donations here!)BOOKMARK the Hotel Bar Sessions website here for detailed show notes and reading lists, and contact any of our co-hosts here.Hotel Bar Sessions is also on Facebook, YouTube, BlueSky, Instagram, and TikTok. Like, follow, share, duet, whatever... just make sure your friends know about us! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

In this message we'll look at the why, what, and how of biblical forgiveness. Scripture: Matthew 18:21-35

Bring the breadth of Jewish history and civilization into your classroom with ready-to-use teaching modules curated by experts. The Posen Library is an educational resource grounded in primary sources and made broadly accessible through the creation and curation of engaging contextual material. Its goal is to highlight the varieties of Jewish culture and civilization across time and space for English-speaking audiences and to be the first stop for those, in university settings and beyond, who are interested in teaching about the significant breadth of Jewish experiences. Originally conceived as a 10-volume print anthology, the Posen Library's free digital platform makes the published content globally accessible. Content from print volumes is added to the site as the volumes are published by Yale University Press. Nine out of the ten volumes have been published to date. The Jewish Studies Curriculum Initiative comprises teaching modules centered around core teaching topics. Each module consists of an overview and curricular material that can be used in four class meetings, focusing on 20–25 primary sources (texts, images, and other media) with interpretive content and supplementary resources for both students and instructors. Posen Library curricula offer flexibility and are designed to be easily integrated into coursework in a variety of ways—perfect for launching a new class or refreshing a syllabus to include new perspectives and voices. Sarah Bunin Benor is Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies and Linguistics at Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles. Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah is assistant professor of Middle Eastern studies at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and the Senior Scholar for Pedagogy at the Posen Library. Geraldine Gudefin is a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Asian Legal Studies at the National University of Singapore. Mentioned in this episode: Posen Library Teaching modules: here Jewish Studies Curriculum Initiative Fellowship: here Sarah Bunin Benor's “Jewish Culture around the world” Module: here Lila Corwin Berman's “Who Is American? Citizenship, Law, and Jewish History in the United States” Module: here Geraldine Gudefin's “Jewish Emancipation, Citizenship, and Belonging” Module: here Geoffrey Levin's “Jews of the Middle East and North Africa: Empire, Colonialism, and Identity” Module: here Karen E. H. Skinazi's “Sephardic Journeys: Literature, Memory, and Jewish Culture” Module: here Jewish Language Project: here Jewish Cultures on the Map: here Jewish English Lexicon: here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

On Friday, July 31st, we hosted Dr. Ginie Servant-Miklos for a Q&A about her book Pedagogies of Collapse: A Hopeful Education for the End of the World As We Know It. This was the conclusion of our Pedagogies of Collapse book club, where we met biweekly to discuss the book and its implication for education. Here is the full unedited Q&A. I wanted to give you a heads up that this conversation gets heavy pretty quickly, includes explicit language, and remind you that HRP is a nonpartisan 501(c)(3), and the views expressed by our guests are their own and do not constitute an endorsement.

Bring the breadth of Jewish history and civilization into your classroom with ready-to-use teaching modules curated by experts. The Posen Library is an educational resource grounded in primary sources and made broadly accessible through the creation and curation of engaging contextual material. Its goal is to highlight the varieties of Jewish culture and civilization across time and space for English-speaking audiences and to be the first stop for those, in university settings and beyond, who are interested in teaching about the significant breadth of Jewish experiences. Originally conceived as a 10-volume print anthology, the Posen Library's free digital platform makes the published content globally accessible. Content from print volumes is added to the site as the volumes are published by Yale University Press. Nine out of the ten volumes have been published to date. The Jewish Studies Curriculum Initiative comprises teaching modules centered around core teaching topics. Each module consists of an overview and curricular material that can be used in four class meetings, focusing on 20–25 primary sources (texts, images, and other media) with interpretive content and supplementary resources for both students and instructors. Posen Library curricula offer flexibility and are designed to be easily integrated into coursework in a variety of ways—perfect for launching a new class or refreshing a syllabus to include new perspectives and voices. Sarah Bunin Benor is Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies and Linguistics at Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles. Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah is assistant professor of Middle Eastern studies at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and the Senior Scholar for Pedagogy at the Posen Library. Geraldine Gudefin is a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Asian Legal Studies at the National University of Singapore. Mentioned in this episode: Posen Library Teaching modules: here Jewish Studies Curriculum Initiative Fellowship: here Sarah Bunin Benor's “Jewish Culture around the world” Module: here Lila Corwin Berman's “Who Is American? Citizenship, Law, and Jewish History in the United States” Module: here Geraldine Gudefin's “Jewish Emancipation, Citizenship, and Belonging” Module: here Geoffrey Levin's “Jews of the Middle East and North Africa: Empire, Colonialism, and Identity” Module: here Karen E. H. Skinazi's “Sephardic Journeys: Literature, Memory, and Jewish Culture” Module: here Jewish Language Project: here Jewish Cultures on the Map: here Jewish English Lexicon: here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies

Surveys say we're living through a "trust crisis," and some version of that has been true since at least the '70s. Confidence in the press, in the courts, in public health agencies, in elected officials, in one another has been down, and still going down. At this point, mistrust reads as our default civic posture. And yet here we all are, getting through our days by handing out trust more or less constantly and mostly without noticing. We tell a friend something we'd rather nobody else knew. We take what the pharmacist gives us without looking it up. We drive over the bridge, trusting that it will hold. So what is trust? A calculation about how somebody is likely to behave, or something closer to a relationship that can absorb being let down without collapsing? What separates trusting a person from merely depending on one? And why does betrayal land as a different order of injury than disappointment, when the practical damage can be identical? Whenever the day arrives that we are post-Trump, and it will arrive, plenty of us are going to demand that our institutions and, in some cases, our own friends and relatives earn our trust back. It's worth working out ahead of time what we'd actually be asking for. A change in their behavior? Or a decision on our part to lower our guard? Because for a lot of people, distrust is hard-won knowledge about how things really go, and being told that it's a lapse in civic virtue tends to land badly. Grab a drink and join us as we try to work out whether trust is something you decide to give or something that happens to you.Full episode notes available at this link:https://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/trust---------------------SUBSCRIBE to the podcast now to automatically download new episodes!SUPPORT Hotel Bar Sessions podcast on Patreon here! (Or by contributing one-time donations here!)BOOKMARK the Hotel Bar Sessions website here for detailed show notes and reading lists, and contact any of our co-hosts here.Hotel Bar Sessions is also on Facebook, YouTube, BlueSky, Instagram, and TikTok. Like, follow, share, duet, whatever... just make sure your friends know about us! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

It's YOUR time to #EdUp with Linda Jena, Pedagogy Resources Specialist, Parker UniversityIn this episode, recorded LIVE from the 2026 AcOps Conference powered by CoursedogYOUR cohost is Inmer Cardona, Client Success Manager, Coursedog⁠YOUR host is Dr. Joe Sallustio⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Listen in to #EdUpThank YOU so much for tuning in. Join us on the next episode for YOUR time to EdUp!Connect with YOUR EdUp Team - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Elvin Freytes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Dr. Joe Sallustio⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠● Join YOUR EdUp community at ⁠The EdUp Experience⁠We make education YOUR business!

In this message, we'll look at the purpose and pathway that Jesus lays out for disciplining children within the household of God when they go astray. Scripture: Matthew 18:15-20

In this episode, I cover Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed." Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy