10 episodes
Backporch Education Podcast Backporch Education Podcast
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- Education
Education is not for "professionals only" or all that highly complex. It is not a science, but rather an art. This podcast discusses the joys and difficulties of teaching, education, and schooling well. Appropriate for beginning teachers or seasoned veterans, in traditional private, public, or home schools, the conversation is wide ranging and focused on doing education well rather than just fussing about what is wrong with it. Join us on the back porch for some conversation about education.
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A New Season and Some Reorientation
Poem: “Ox Cart Man,” by Donald Hall Statement of the Whole: Amazing to think about, but Backporch Education Podcast is now beginning its fourth Season! Jason and Steve take a few minutes to lean back and think about where we have been, where we might go from … Continue reading →
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The Whole and Its Parts
Poem: “Work without Hope” by Samuel T. Coleridge Statement of the Whole: Moving from the image of a car engine spread out on the back lawn to the inner workings of the inquisitive mind, Jason and Steve discuss how analysis and synthesis are both … Continue reading →
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Of Church, School, and Family
Poem: “The Hippopotamus” by T.S. Eliot Statement of the Whole: When we began a while back to separate our lives into various spheres, especially as we moved education in the schools away from any form of religion, a new set of questions were birthed. … Continue reading →
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What are School Administrators Good For?
Poem: “Sonnets from the Portuguese, #23” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Statement of the Whole: Would a teacher’s life be better or worse if Administrators disappeared from the Earth? So begins a lively repartee between Jason and Steve, both of whom currently divide time at their … Continue reading →
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Teaching the Love of Literature
Poem: “To a Critic” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Statement of the Whole: In this episode, an article sparks lively discussion between Jason and Steve on what it will take to revive the love of literature in our day. Why do so many people dislike … Continue reading →
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Vacuous Art
Poem: “The Third Day” by Edith Lovejoy Pearce Statement of the Whole: Recently an Italian artist sold an “immaterial sculpture” for about $18,000 and the Backporch dudes let the fun begin. Join them in a far-ranging discussion about this moment in art and education history. Did he sell nothing … Continue reading →