After Virtual: Education

After Virtual: Education

Author: frontporchrepublic November 30, 2022 Duration: 1:13:29
The second episode from the FPR conference After Virtual: The Art of Recovering Lost Goods looks at education.  Jeff Polet discusses walking away from Hope.  Angel Adams Parham talks about the elementary power of a rapping Homer.  Jason Peters goes back to the future of the educational machine.  Speakers:  Jeff Polet, Angel Adams Parham, and Jason Peters  Highlights  1:15 Jeff Polet—Why I Left the Academy  2:00 The news from Nineveh   5:30 Signs of declines  8:30 Searching for a pony   16:30 Jargon, gymnasts, adjudications, and generals   23:15 Gerald Ford comes calling   25:00 Angel Adams Parham—Education for Flourishing: K-16 and Beyond  26:30 Cultural canons and tug-of-war  28:15 Classics and community  32:30 Taking creative license with the gods  34:00 Disturbing images of beauty  40:00 Rapping Homer, Reading Frederick Douglas, and Rediscovering Sundiata  45:00 Resources for Learning  47:00 Jason Peters—The Sin Against the Body: For This They Wept Not  48:30 March madness and the managerial class  51:45 Phone sex prophecy  55:00 Would not a storm by any other name smell just the same  58:00 Even better than the real thing?  64:00 1909 all over again  70:00 Truth buoys up      Resources  Speaker bios  Conference videos  Save the date:  2023 Conference in Madison, Wisconsin (October 7, 2023)  Thanks to Wendell Kimbrough for his musical talents 

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