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Hosted by Donald Easton-Brooks Ph.D. · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 31 episodes
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A podcast about learning and the cultural context that gives knowledge meaning. Donald Easton-Brooks, Ph.D., connects research and educator practice to explore how understanding develops through scaffolding, relationships, and history, and why learning cannot be reduced to information retrieval. Built for teachers and educational leaders seeking deeper, more durable learning.Audience: Educators, teachers, instructional coaches, and school leadersFocus: Learning, learning theory, culture, and knowledge.Host: Donald Easton-Brooks, Ph.D., is an award-winning international scholar recognized
Donald Easton-Brooks Ph.D. hosts Cultural Context of Knowledge, a education show with 31 episodes published.
A doctoral student sits in the back of a Denver board meeting and watches the whole season come to a point in about nine seconds. Community representatives present the findings of the scholars he has spent years reading.
The story had to be told in our own voice before anyone could trust it in numbers. In 1966 the Coleman Report measured six hundred thousand children and, for all its size, missed the ones it claimed to see. Its authors s
The story had to be told in our own voice before anyone could trust it in numbers. In 1966 the Coleman Report measured six hundred thousand children and, for all its size, missed the ones it claimed to see. Its authors s
They came to measure children like me, and they could not see the one thing that was carrying us. I was born in 1964, and this episode is personal. I grew up in Texas schools where nearly every teacher at the front of my
They came to measure children like me, and they could not see the one thing that was carrying us. I was born in 1964, and this episode is personal. I grew up in Texas schools where nearly every teacher at the front of my
A sixteen-year-old girl named Barbara Rose Johns was tired of being taught in a tar-paper shack. In 1951 she led four hundred and fifty of her classmates out on strike, and that walkout became one of the five cases the S
A sixteen-year-old girl named Barbara Rose Johns was tired of being taught in a tar-paper shack. In 1951 she led four hundred and fifty of her classmates out on strike, and that walkout became one of the five cases the S
Somewhere around 1930, a child sat in a classroom and learned to be ashamed of her own grandmother. Between 1921 and 1940, the harm of the official school was finally named out loud. The lesson itself had become the weap
Somewhere around 1930, a child sat in a classroom and learned to be ashamed of her own grandmother. Between 1921 and 1940, the harm of the official school was finally named out loud. The lesson itself had become the weap
The research did not discover this. It arrived, generations late, at a door the families had been standing behind the whole time. Part two turns from the schools communities built to the harm those schools were built to
Part 1 of 2: "The Schools Built Against Them: What Families Knew, and What They Built" They did not need a court ruling to know what the school was for. They already knew. Between 1890 and 1920, Black, Native, Mexican, C
Picture four teachers, in the same country, in the same years before the Civil War. They never meet. They speak four different languages. And without knowing it, each one makes the same decision. In St. Louis, a formerly
“Ethnic matching did not begin as a research variable. It began as a lived reality.” Season 3 opens. Dr. Donald Easton-Brooks names the season — The Inheritance Tax: Where Ethnic Matching Became — and walks listeners int
Season 3 of The Cultural Context of Knowledge takes up ethnic matching: the research that asks what happens to students, especially Black, Latino, and Indigenous students, when the teacher in front of them shares aspects
"The pivot the season has been asking about is not waiting on a new theory. It is waiting on the workforce." We opened this season with a question. The demographic pivot has already happened. Will education pivot with it
"A number issued by an instrument that was never calibrated against you is not a verdict. It is the instrument telling on itself." Two students take the same standardized reading test. Question fourteen is about a regatt
"A document written in a meeting you have never seen still walks into your child's classroom every morning." Imagine a state standards committee. About twenty people at a long table. Most are educators or administrators,
"A model that fills a silence with itself has not answered. It has spoken over you." Two high-school seniors. Same model. Same kind of paper. One asks about jazz. One asks about her grandmother's healing tradition. Both
"The word violence demands an intervention. The word bias asks for a workshop." This season has been organized around one relationship — knowledge and power. Who decides what counts. Whose voice the institutions treat as
"A history that cannot be told does not disappear. It waits for someone to find the words." When marginalized knowledge finally wins a place in the curriculum, something else happens at the same time. It gets targeted. T
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