About this episode

The episode explores the intersection of literary theory and civic engagement through a self-reflective lens on political and educational challenges.

Is our intellectual exercise just an expensive lifestyle brand that keeps our hands clean? In this raw, self-interrogating mailbag episode, we turn the lens inward for a vulnerability audit of our own political battles and pedagogical failures. Let’s try and bridge the gap between literary theory and civic praxis, how public school teachers, students, […]

People in this episode

Host: Steve Chisnell

Topics covered

• intellectual exercise
• political battles
• pedagogical failures
• literary theory
• civic praxis
• public education

Keywords

• intimidation
• interpretation
• vulnerability audit
• public school
• teachers
• students
• politics
• education

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