Thinking in the Midst

Jess Calarco and Mark Nagasawa sit down with Cara and Derek to talk about public institutions and programs--and especially the lack thereof--for early childhood education, and the racialized and gendered ramifications of our policy choices. LINKS: Order Mark's collection, Transforming Early Years Policy in the US. Preorder Jess's new book, Holding It Together: How Women Bec

Philosophical Studies in Education SIG officers Caitlin Murphy Brust, Jamie Herman, and Ka Ya Lee join Cara and Derek to share thoughts and advice about navigating conferences generally and AERA in particular. Two events for grad students to note at AERA: 1.) Mentoring coffee chat (Sat Apr 13th, Elixr Coffee, 3-4:30pm) 2.) Graduate student social (Sat Ap 13th, Victory Brewing, 5-6

In this episode, we present a symposium on the idea of culturally just assessments proposed and led by Joy Dangora Erickson, and featuring Winston Thompson, myself, and Cara. It was convenient to put together because neither Cara nor Winston were able to be at PES in person and so had pre-recorded their comments already. LINKS! The two articles that started this conversation are h

"If you really analyze it, all bullying is gender policing," says one of our guests this week. Cris Mayo and Elizabethe Payne join Cara and Derek to talk about the various forces at work making LGBTQ+ students and their institutional allies especially vulnerable in our current climate. LINKS: The transcript is here. For more of Cris's work, click here and here. For m

Michaila Peters, Ksenia Filatov, and Yuya Takeda join Cara and Derek to talk about their work on conspiratorial thinking and media literacy. All three guests are presenting work on this topic at the 2024 PES annual meeting, and this conversation broadly covers the genesis and context of the arguments they will make next week. LINKS! A transcript is here! For Ksenia's ongoing wo

Virginia Dearani, Adi Burton, and Clarence Joldersma speak to Cara and Derek about the mutual implications and shared concerns, both real and possible, of these two massively complex regions of human experience. LINKS! A transcript of the episode is here. The form to recommend future guests/topics! The Masha Gessen piece we briefly discussed is here. Adi's dissertation is avail

Natasha Levinson and Chris Higgins join Cara and Derek to talk about the structures and practices of academic conferences--especially PES; registration remains open!--as well as the role of questioning in general and what makes for a good question in the context of PES, especially. LINKS: PES registration! Transcript of the episode! Chris's forthcoming book is here; see other g

Bill Pinar and Sam Rocha sit down with Cara and Derek to talk about the role that philosophical thinking and curriculum studies has played, so far, in their intellectual lives and their academic careers. LINKS! Here is the transcript. For more of Sam's work, see here, here, and here For more of Bill's work, see here, here and here. To recommend guests and topics for future

Laura D'Olimipio and René Arcilla sit down with Derek and Cara to talk about the aesthetic dimensions of educational experience and how to defend or articulate the value of the arts in schools. LINKS: Here is a transcript of the episode. You can find more of Laura's work here, here, here, and here. René's work is available here, here, and here. And here is the form yo

Elham Kazemi and Kurt Stemhagen join Cara and Derek to talk about the democratic affordances of mathematics classrooms. LINKS: Find more of Elham's work here, here, and here. Find more of Kurt's work here, here, and here. Here is the transcript of the episode, and you can recommend future guests and topics with this form.