Knowledge Unbound

In this week’s episode, Christian Fauria and Constanza Bartholomae discuss how to make a learning environment for students based on providing the support and enthusiasm they need to move forward in their careers and in their lives.

In this week’s episode, Kelly Mack discusses her grad experience and the sacrifices she had to give in order to accomplish her career path, as the vision of success institutions have created a variety of challenges towards their students.

In this week’s episode, Thomas Tobin talks about the importance in distributing a proper learning space for students to learn to manage their learning process while building an environment that isn’t built on barriers.

In this week's episode, I reflect on themes of teaching, learning, and life choices with my former student Aria Mia Loberti. We discuss going from triple majoring to being cast as the lead in the Netflix short series 'All the light we cannot see' based on the book by the same name. Aria gets into her own physical journey of legal blindness to sightedness, and the platforms it provided her to be an advocate for those with disabilities.

To kick off this new season of Knowledge Unbound, Bryan Dewsbury invites Dr. Asia Eaton to the studio for an insightful discussion on the evolution of society, gender norms, and interpersonal relationships in the modern age. As a social and behavioral psychologist, Dr. Eaton highlights key issues both men and women face - from the manosphere’s ideals of restricting one’s emotions to women forgoing structural support in the household - and how they each contribute to the social disconnect that impede the growth of relationships, among other issues.

This week we are joined by members of Nuevas Voces, here to talk about an incredible partnership between them and mathematics researchers to develop a real time climate change resource tool for the Woonasquatucket community. With Jenny Mercado and Rebekah Greenwald, we discuss the value of humility, listening, and sharing common goals for human uplift and how those values informed an incredible partnership between academics and a local community organization.

In this episode Clayton State University professor Dr. Leon Professor Prieto joins us to discuss how his journey from Trinidad to his education in Business at the undergraduate, Masters and PhD level informed his work and thinking on blackness and business. We discuss what this means for those of us finding deep meaning and historical relevance in our teaching practice.

We are joined this week by Dr. Maha Bali of American University, Cairo. We talk teaching, AI, diversity, open, and other possibilities for transformative education in the Egyptian and international context. Thanks to Maha for hosting me and having this great conversation.

This week, longtime educator Kimberly Minors joins me to talk teaching, education and general social change in the Conmonwealth of the Bahamas. Kimberly discusses her experience as a classroom teacher and as a consultant to the education system there, highlighting the reality that educating well is about knowing the whole person and the society education is meant to improve.

In this, the first episode of Season 2, I talk with Heather Beem, founder of the Practical Education Network, about serving others, your why, and her own journey to designing an organization that makes cool science available to all, regardless of resource level. Heather talks about her journey from MIT field trip to the reach that her organization has across the continent of Africa.

This week, in our final episode of Season 1, Dr. Mays Imad shared with us her journey from Baghdad, Iraq to Connecticut College and her internationally renowned work on trauma informed education. She implores us to think of education as opportunities for healing and growth, such that both our students and us can become more whole from the experience.

Executive Director of Exchange for Change joins us to discuss providing education to the incarcerated, education as a human right, and the ways in which her life experience impacted her desire to center humanism in education. Kathie was a journalist in Haiti for 30 years and shares with us lessons from that experience that informs her current work.