The Evolved Men Podcast is for men committed to growth, confidence, and deeper connections. Through real conversations on personal development, social skills, and leadership, we provide the tools to help you evolve into your boldest, most authentic self. For more information about the Evolved Men Project go to: http://www.evolvedmenproject.com
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How should we be thinking about ethical questions in education? Conversations and features with philosophers and education researchers. From classroom dilemmas to policy decisions, K-12 through higher ed. We also make teaching guides to use in sociology, education, and philosophy classes. Available on our website. Produced by the Center for Ethics and Education in WCER at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, thanks to funding from the Spencer Foundation.
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Hosted by Dr. Robert Casares, The Reframe brings you conversations with leaders and legends of the counseling profession, experienced clinicians working in agency and private practice settings, as well as masters- and doctoral-level counseling students. Guests discuss cutting-edge research, share stories about their own professional successes and setbacks, and offer insights and encouragement drawn from a diverse range of professional backgrounds.
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How To Use Visioning as a Weapon: How to Lead Yourself Through Chaos
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20:25What if your breakthrough isn't about hustling harder, but getting crystal-clear on who you're becoming? This episode cuts through the noise to reveal how creating a genuine vision transforms everything. Not a corporate mission statement or some vague affirmation, but a raw, specific picture of the man you're meant to be. When host Corey Baum wrote…
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Identifying and Overcoming Limiting Beliefs
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25:47What quiet belief have you been living by that you never consciously chose? Every man carries an unconscious narrative that dictates how he moves through the world—when to speak up, when to hold back, what he's worthy of, and who he's allowed to become. These stories weren't deliberately selected; they were formed in moments of vulnerability, rejec…
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Political Disclosure in the Classroom | Harry Brighouse and Tony Laden (Higher Ed)
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22:42Should professors share their political views with their students? What happens to students when they do? Today's show is about how decisions around disclosure affect teaching, learning, and trust. Featuring Harry Brighouse and Tony Laden with Daisy Jagoditsh, Max Patterson, and Avra Reddy. Produced by Jennifer McCord and Carrie Welsh. Written by J…
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What Are You Tolerating? How Agreements Shape the Man You Become
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19:10Ever found yourself staring at an overflowing calendar, silently acknowledging you won't complete half of what you've committed to? That moment reveals something profound about how we lead ourselves. This episode dives deep into the concept of "tolerations" – those quiet agreements we make with ourselves that shape our identity one small surrender …
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Would You Still Want This Life If No One Saw It?
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21:24What if the mountain you’ve been climbing your whole life isn’t actually yours? That question launched a deep reevaluation of how I approach work, relationships, and success itself. Most of us are handed a map early on—by family, school, and culture—showing us what “making it” should look like. We chase titles, money, and milestones, often without …
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When was the last time you truly checked in with yourself—not because something was broken, but out of real curiosity about what’s actually working? Most of us spend our days in constant motion—showing up, providing, handling the nonstop demands of modern manhood. But somewhere along the way, we disconnect from the one person who matters most: ours…
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What happens when a man has no internal compass to guide his decisions? He lives in constant reaction mode—questioning everything, shape-shifting for approval, and slowly losing touch with himself. This essential episode tackles the transformative power of identifying your core values and using them to lead yourself with clarity and conviction. Mos…
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Own The Path - Reclaiming Your Life Through Self-Leadership
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10:39Remember that underwater feeling? When everything looks fine on paper, but inside, you're just coasting through life? That's exactly where we begin this raw exploration of what happens when men surrender the steering wheel of their own lives. Most guys don't lose control in one catastrophic moment. It's those small, seemingly innocent compromises t…
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Talking Points: inherited masculinity, performed identity, authentic manhood What if the way you’ve been living as a man isn’t actually your own definition of manhood? Most men unknowingly operate from inherited or culturally imposed identities—doing everything “right” yet still feeling disconnected. This exploration breaks down the three versions …
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Every man's evolution begins not with a clear vision, but with a moment of reckoning. For me, that moment came when I saw my sons mirroring the same hesitation and fear that had defined my own life – patterns I'd inherited but never questioned. In this raw, unfiltered episode, I pull back the curtain on why I created the Evolve Men Podcast and the …
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Corey Baum shares his personal journey from emotional suppression and living behind masks to authentic leadership and fatherhood. This vulnerable narrative serves as both confession and invitation, revealing how breaking generational patterns begins with facing our deepest truths. • Growing up learning to adapt but not express emotions in a home wh…
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Are you tired of feeling empty inside despite checking all the boxes of success? Do you find yourself wearing masks, playing roles, and wondering if there's something more to life? You're not alone in this struggle. The Evolved Men Podcast creates a space for men who are ready to break free from outdated models of masculinity that simply aren't wor…
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Building Trust in Higher Education | Tony Laden (Higher Ed)
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34:10In this special collaborative episode with the L&S Exchange Podcast, we explore how college changes what we trust and what higher ed can do to become more trustworthy. With special guest philosopher Tony Laden, author of Networks of Trust: The Social Costs of Higher Education and What We Can Do About Them (2024). Aftershow featuring the L&S Instruc…
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Why Mentoring Matters | Harry Brighouse and Diamond Lannaman (Higher Ed)
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26:32College students need good mentorship. Here's why those mentors should be university teachers. With Harry Brighouse and Diamond Lannaman. Based on a paper by Harry Brighouse, "The Mentoring Responsibilities of University Teachers" (unpublished), 2023. Produced by Carrie Welsh and Jennifer McCord. Special thanks to Diamond Lannaman.…
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Touchy Subject: Thinking Better About Sex Education | Lisa Andersen and Lauren Bialystok (Book Talk)
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31:12Why all the whispering? What should kids know about sex? And how can we think better about sex ed – so we can do better – by kids, by ourselves, and by each other? With Lisa Andersen and Lauren Bialystok. Touchy Subject: The History and Philosophy of Sex Education Produced by Carrie Welsh, Anna Nelson, Teresa Nelson, and Jennifer McCord. Ethics & E…
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Can College Level the Playing Field? | Sandy Baum and Michael McPherson (Book Talk)
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26:06Harry Brighouse and Hannah Bounds interview Sandy Baum and Michael McPherson about their book, Can College Level the Playing Field?: Higher Education in an Unequal Society (2022). Links: Book: Can College Level the Playing Field?: Higher Education in an Unequal Society Episodes mentioned: The Plumber Episode, The Right to Higher Education, and The …
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Faculty and Social Media | Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, TJ Stewart, Harry Brighouse, and Jacob Fay | (Ethics in Higher Education Book Series)
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36:35This is the third episode in a miniseries co-produced by Rebecca M. Taylor and Ashley Floyd Kuntz. Rebecca and Ashley are the editors of Ethics in Higher Education: Promoting Equity and Inclusion Through Case-Based Inquiry. This episode is about faculty using social media, hosted by Jacob Fay (Open Mind) and featuring the voices of Chanda Prescod-W…
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HBCUs Present and Future | John Torrey, Joyce E. King, Felecia Commodore, and Corey Reed | (Ethics in Higher Education Book Series)
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48:17This is the second episode in a miniseries co-produced by Rebecca M. Taylor and Ashley Floyd Kuntz. Rebecca and Ashley are the editors of Ethics in Higher Education: Promoting Equity and Inclusion Through Case-Based Inquiry. This episode is about the ethical dilemmas that HBCUs face, featuring the voices of host John Torrey (Buffalo State) and gues…
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"Divisive Concepts" | Sigal Ben-Porath and Laura Dinehart (Ethics in Higher Ed Book Series)
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37:25This is the first episode in a miniseries co-produced by Rebecca M. Taylor and Ashley Floyd Kuntz. Rebecca and Ashley are the editors of Ethics in Higher Education: Promoting Equity and Inclusion Through Case-Based Inquiry. This episode is about "divisive concepts" and features Sigal Ben-Porath (University of Pennsylvania) and Laura Dinehart (Flori…
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Trailer--Ethics in Higher Ed: Case-Based Conversations (Ethics in Higher Education Book Series)
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2:10Introducing a miniseries about ethical issues in higher ed. Co-produced by Rebecca M. Taylor (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Ashley Floyd Kuntz (Florida International University), this series is based on their new book, Ethics in Higher Education: Promoting Equity and Inclusion Through Case-Based Inquiry. In this series, we cover "…
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The Ethics of College in Prison (Controversial Issues in Education)
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45:12Where is the contrast between the aims of American prisons and the aims of college in prison programs? This piece is about those ethical dilemmas. Featuring the voices of: philosophers John Fantuzzo, Jennifer Lackey, and Daniel Wodak; and brothers Freedom and Lee Horton. Links: PBS segment about Lee and Freedom: Brotherhood & Clemency Part 1: The P…
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The Plumber Episode | Harry Brighouse and Grace Gecewicz (Teaching Better)
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42:11Imagine you call a plumber. This episode is about becoming a better college teacher (if you're lucky), featuring UW-Madison philosophy professor Harry Brighouse and Oakland middle school teacher Grace Gecewicz. Links: The plumber essay ("Becoming a Better College Teacher (If You're Lucky)" by Harry Brighouse, Fall 2019, Daedalus) Produced by Carrie…
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The True Costs of College | Nancy Kendall, Matthew Wolfgram, and Natnael Shiferaw (Higher Ed)
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42:08The true costs of college go way beyond simple frugality. The costs are serious, and they are often overlooked by universities. Hosted by UW-Madison grad Natnael Shiferaw, this episode features a conversation with ethnographers Nancy Kendall and Matthew Wolfgram, two of the authors of the 2020 book, "The True Costs of College." This is part of our …
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The Ethics of College Admissions | Joe Boeckenstedt and Harry Brighouse (Higher Ed)
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52:05Jon Boeckenstedt is the Vice Provost of Enrollment Management at Oregon State University. He has thoughts about how we do--and should do--admissions. Here he is in conversation with philosopher of education Harry Brighouse. What is "enrollment management"? Is the admissions office more like Space Mountain or Studio 54? What information does an admi…
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The Right to Higher Education | Christopher Martin and Harry Brighouse (Higher Ed)
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45:25Do we have a right to higher education? A conversation between philosophers of education Harry Brighouse and Christopher Martin. What is the point of higher education? Why is there a right to higher education? Should education be compulsory after 18? Should tuition be free? Plus: civic education, elite institutions, selection theatrics, and armchai…
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What Should the Aims of Higher Education Be? (Higher Ed)
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10:29What should the aims of higher education be? We asked undergrads, grad students, and philosophy professors what they think. This is the first episode in our series on the ethics of higher education. Special thanks to UW-Madison philosophy majors Ria Dhingra and Anna Nelson, who collected responses from the 2021 NAAPE Conference (North American Asso…
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The Ethics of Teacher Strikes | Tony Laden and Eleni Schirmer (Controversial Issues in Education)
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42:11At the Center for Ethics & Education, we (obviously) think a lot about the ethical dimensions of teaching. But what about the ethical dimensions of *not* teaching? We invited labor scholar Eleni Schirmer into conversation with philosopher Tony Laden to talk about what makes successful teacher strikes successful, strikes as direct action, what the b…
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Love and Teaching | Meghan Sullivan and Maria Salazar (Teaching Better)
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53:56Why is it weird to talk about loving your students? A great conversation about love and teaching. Featuring philosopher Meghan Sullivan in conversation with Maria Salazar about what it means to bring love into the classroom and why more philosophers should study love. Transcript The Good Life Method book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/62…
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Educational Opportunity with Jencks's Principles of Justice | Jaime Ahlberg (Popular Papers)
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27:50Navigating educational equal opportunity is hard. Christopher Jencks's five principles for equal education opportunity make navigating equal education a little bit easier - once we understand the principles, of course. In this episode, Avra Reddy interviews Jaime Ahlberg (University of Florida) about how we can use moral principles to understand th…
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The Ethics of Punishment | John Tillson and Winston C. Thompson (Controversial Issues in Education)
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26:39How and why should we punish schoolchildren--if at all? That's the guiding question of the Pedagogies of Punishment project. This episode features the project's PIs, John Tillson (Liverpool Hope University) and Winston C. Thompson (The Ohio State University). Pedagogies of Punishment: https://www.pedagogiesofpunishment.com/ This project was a grant…
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Learning Through Conversation | Agnes Callard (Teaching Better)
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30:57What can we learn from conversation that we can't learn on our own? Agnes Callard (Philosophy, University of Chicago) talks about the paradox of learning through conversation, the secret to asking a good question, chatting with the ghost of Aristotle, and that time her lecture notes were stolen and it ended up being a good thing for her teaching. M…
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Welcome to a new season of the Ethics & Education podcast! Here are some snippets of episodes we'll share this fall, featuring the voices of Agnes Callard, Lindsey Schwartz, Winston Thompson, John Tillson, Jaime Ahlberg, and Quentin Wheeler-Bell. Stay tuned for more episodes starting in September. In the meantime, we’ll keep making study guides for…
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Humor, Movement, and Multimedia | Jen Kling (Teaching Better)
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21:13At CEE, we think a lot about good teaching. This is the fourth episode in our 2021 Teaching Series. And it's the last episode of our first season! Jen Kling is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and the director of the Center for Legal Studies at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. She's also the Executive Director of Concerned Philosoph…
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Being in Love with Knowledge | Bailey Szustak (Teaching Better)
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9:44At CEE, we think a lot about good teaching. This is the third episode in our 2021 Teaching Series. Bailey Szustak is a PhD student at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In this episode, Bailey talks about teaching new philosophy students in a way that helps them feel at ease with and compelled by philosophy. After all, that's what the word 'phi…
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Argument and Curiosity as Skills | W. John Koolage (Teaching Better)
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17:34At CEE, we think a lot about philosophical skills and good teaching. This is the first episode in our 2021 Teaching Series. W. John Koolage is a philosophy professor and the Director of General Education at Eastern Michigan University. John is a philosopher of education who thinks a lot about teaching and learning. In this piece, he talks about how…
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Interactive Methods and Feminist Critiques | Susan Kennedy (Teaching Better)
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19:00At CEE, we think a lot about good teaching. This is the second episode in our 2021 Teaching Series. Susan Kennedy is a postdoctoral fellow in philosophy at Harvard University, where she works with the Embedded EthiCS team to integrate ethical reasoning into the computer science curriculum. In this episode, Susan talks about teaching non-canonical t…
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Teaching, Indoctrination, and Trust | Tony Laden (Controversial Issues in Education)
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31:18Who do you trust? Are universities trustworthy? Professors? What about students? Philosopher Tony Laden (UIC Chicago) is writing a book about democracy. He sees higher ed as a way to think about trust networks and broader questions about how we talk to each other. Episode transcript Citations (and further reading!): Binder, Amy J., and Kate Wood. B…
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Why Principles? | Jaime Ahlberg (Thinking Better)
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19:27Principles are your pal. They offer both theory and a diagnosis to help you figure out what the problem is. But on their own, they're not enough. Where do they fit in decision-making? Plus a burning question about relativism. At the NAAPE Conference in 2019, Grace Gecewicz (UW Madison Philosophy undergrad, '20) and Abby Beneke (UW Madison Education…
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The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Universities | Laura Hamilton and Kathryn Joyce (Book Talk)
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26:31This piece features two voices: sociologist Dr. Laura T. Hamilton (UC Merced) and philosopher Dr. Kathryn Joyce (Princeton University). Educational Policy Studies PhD student Abby Beneke (UW-Madison) interviewed Laura when she came to UW in 2019 to give a talk on her book project, Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Universities, which s…
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Episode 23 - Failure Does Not Have to Be Fatal with Gerald Corey
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55:28My guest is Dr. Gerald Corey, Professor Emeritus of Human Services and Counseling at California State University, Fullerton and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Holy Cross in New Orleans. Dr. Corey has authored or coauthored 16 textbooks on topics such as counseling theories, group counseling, clinical supervision, and professional ethics.…
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Education for Liberation | Quentin Wheeler-Bell (Teaching Better)
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17:19"Education doesn't always need to start with an answer. It starts, sometimes, with a question." Professor Quentin Wheeler-Bell (Indiana University) discusses one of the driving questions of his work: what is liberatory education? Transcript Produced and edited by Kellen Sharp. Recorded at the NAAPE Conference, October 2019.…
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Episode 22 - Unstructured but Intentional with Marissa Davala
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56:01My guest is Dr. Marissa Davala, Assistant Professor in the Department of Counseling and School Psychology at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, and 2020-2021 IAMFC Emerging Leader. Her clinical and research interests focus on couples counseling, preventing infidelity and maintaining monogamy, trauma-informed care, and attachment concepts. Dr. D…
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The Ethics of Doctoral Admissions | Bryan Warnick (Controversial Issues in Education)
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17:10It’s late January, which means snowstorms (here in Wisconsin, anyway), the start of the spring semester, and grad school application deadlines. Universities will be making admission decisions over the next few months, and then applicants will decide where to go. But who really knows what they're getting into when they apply to grad school?? This is…
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Sexual Citizenship | Jennifer Hirsch and Shamus Khan (Book Talk)
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37:03Grace Gecewicz and Madeline Brighouse Glueck interview Jennifer S. Hirsch (Public Health, Columbia University) and Shamus Khan (Sociology, Princeton University) about their book, Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus. This conversation offers a hopeful vision for the future of sex education, preventing sexual assaul…
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The Ethics of Opting Out | Terri Wilson (Controversial Issues in Education)
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10:37What are the ethical questions behind opting out of state testing? Professor Terri Wilson (University of Colorado Boulder) discusses a case study she co-wrote on opting out of state standardized testing. Study Guide: Opting Out of State Assessments - with a Structured Academic Controversy activity Audio Transcript Recorded at the American Philosoph…
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The Ethics of Charter Schools | Harry Brighouse, Erica Turner, Gina Schouten (Controversial Issues in Education)
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30:13What is a charter school? Philosophy professor (and director of the Center for Ethics and Education) and UW-Madison student (and undergraduate project assistant at the Center) Grace Gecewicz host this episode about a type of school that everyone seems to have an opinion about. Find out who the "strange bedfellows" were that came up with the idea of…
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Higher Education and Social Mobility | Jennifer Morton (Book Talk)
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15:34What ethical compromises do students make when they seek upward mobility through education? We talk with Professor Jennifer Morton about her new book, Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility (2019). Morton is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and a senior fellow at t…
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The Case of the Privileged Poor | Anthony Jack (Book Talk)
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13:21We talk with Dr. Anthony Abraham Jack, an assistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, about his new book, The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students (2019). Jack’s work examines the often-overlooked diversity of low-income college students. Book: The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleg…
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Research Me-Search | Kellen Sharp (Student Episode)
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13:27Kellen Sharp is a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, majoring in Communication Arts. He is a McNair scholar with aspirations of attending graduate school and earning a PhD in Media and Cultural Studies. Kellen was the Undergraduate Research Scholar at the Center for Ethics and Education in 2019-20, where he co-produced and edited the po…
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Good Sex Education for Good Sex | Grace Gecewicz (Student Episode)
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11:23Grace Gecewicz is a recent graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and a certificate in gender and women’s studies. During her time as an undergraduate, she was also an undergraduate project assistant at the Center for Ethics & Education, where she worked on the podcast and curriculum …
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