Many universities worldwide hope to internationalize and push faculty to produce knowledge across disciplines. That’s easier said than done. My guest today, Angela Last, looks at these university fads and finds difficult ethical dilemmas that scholars must overcome. Angela Last is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Leicester. Angela is an interdisciplinary researcher […]
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Many listeners probably use LinkedIn. That’s the social media website aimed at connecting employers with employees. My guest today, Janja Komljenovic, researches the ways in which LinkedIn is shaped by and shaping higher education. Janja argues that LinkedIn furthers the employability mandate in universities. Janja Komljenovic is a lecturer of higher education at Lancaster University. […]
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American students are in debt. Some forty-four million Americans collectively hold over $1.4 trillion worth of debt. Those numbers have increased since the Global Financial Crisis from 10 years ago. Today I speak with Ben Miller, a senior director for Postsecondary Education at the Center for American Progress. Ben specializes in higher-education accountability, affordability, and […]
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Today we explore the schooling received by children affected by the Trump administration’s immigration policy of family separation. My guest is Julian Vasquez Heilig, a professor of educational leadership and policy studies at California State University Sacramento. Julian writes a blog entitled “Cloaking Inequity”. In a recent post, he reported on a Texas-based detention center […]
What are Americans’ views of higher education? The common story is that people see higher education as an investment in the future of an individual. More education from the best university will result in high salaries in the future. In this story, the public doesn’t appear. It’s all about the private good of higher education. But […]
Humans have been the center of Western philosophy and science for centuries, at least since the European enlightenment. With the rise of artificial intelligence, climate change and challenges to the very idea of subjectivity, are we moving into an era that is perhaps better labeled post-human? But what would posthumanism mean for education? My guest […]
The images and stories of migrant families being separated by the United States government set off a global conversation about immigration, borders, and justice. If the political philosophy of liberalism is based on liberty and equality, then the events of the past few months have challenged the very core of liberal democratic states. My guest […]
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Angela Last
The trouble of internationalization and interdisciplinarity
Many universities worldwide hope to internationalize and push faculty to produce knowledge across disciplines. That’s easier said than done. My guest today, Angela Last, looks at these university fads and finds difficult ethical dilemmas that scholars must overcome. Angela Last is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Leicester. Angela is an interdisciplinary researcher […]
The trouble of internationalization and interdisciplinarity
Janja Komljenovic
The power of LinkedIn in higher education
Many listeners probably use LinkedIn. That’s the social media website aimed at connecting employers with employees. My guest today, Janja Komljenovic, researches the ways in which LinkedIn is shaped by and shaping higher education. Janja argues that LinkedIn furthers the employability mandate in universities. Janja Komljenovic is a lecturer of higher education at Lancaster University. […]
The power of LinkedIn in higher education
Marni Sommer
Education, Gender and sexual health
Education, Gender and sexual health
Oli Mould
Against Creativity
Against Creativity
Ben Miller
Defaulting on student loans in America
American students are in debt. Some forty-four million Americans collectively hold over $1.4 trillion worth of debt. Those numbers have increased since the Global Financial Crisis from 10 years ago. Today I speak with Ben Miller, a senior director for Postsecondary Education at the Center for American Progress. Ben specializes in higher-education accountability, affordability, and […]
Defaulting on student loans in America
Julian Vasquez Heilig
Trump, detained children, and online charter schools
Today we explore the schooling received by children affected by the Trump administration’s immigration policy of family separation. My guest is Julian Vasquez Heilig, a professor of educational leadership and policy studies at California State University Sacramento. Julian writes a blog entitled “Cloaking Inequity”. In a recent post, he reported on a Texas-based detention center […]
Trump, detained children, and online charter schools
Noah D. Drezner & Oren Pizmony-Levy
Americans’ Views of Higher Education
What are Americans’ views of higher education? The common story is that people see higher education as an investment in the future of an individual. More education from the best university will result in high salaries in the future. In this story, the public doesn’t appear. It’s all about the private good of higher education. But […]
Americans’ Views of Higher Education
Stefan Herbrechter
What is Critical Posthumanist Education?
Humans have been the center of Western philosophy and science for centuries, at least since the European enlightenment. With the rise of artificial intelligence, climate change and challenges to the very idea of subjectivity, are we moving into an era that is perhaps better labeled post-human? But what would posthumanism mean for education? My guest […]
What is Critical Posthumanist Education?
Alla Korzh & Noah Sobe
Reimagining social science and post-socialist utopias
Reimagining social science and post-socialist utopias
Bruce Collet
Migration, religion, and schooling in democratic states
The images and stories of migrant families being separated by the United States government set off a global conversation about immigration, borders, and justice. If the political philosophy of liberalism is based on liberty and equality, then the events of the past few months have challenged the very core of liberal democratic states. My guest […]
Migration, religion, and schooling in democratic states
Radha D’Souza
What’s wrong with rights?
What’s wrong with rights?
Michelle Morais de Sa e Silva
The Global Diffusion of Conditional Cash Transfers
The Global Diffusion of Conditional Cash Transfers