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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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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With NEPES right around the corner -- tomorrow, in fact -- Siri Ranganath and Drew Chambers join Cara and Derek to talk about what motivates them to serve in organizational offices, what the work is like, and how they approach it.
To see the NEPES program, click here.
For Drew's personal website, click here.
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Chris Higgins and Kristen Case are back with Cara and Derek to finish talking about Chris's new book, Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education.
For Kristen's awesome work, visit her website.
