Education Bookcast

About Education Bookcast

Education Bookcast is a podcast principally for teachers and parents who would like to know more about education. We cover one education-related book or article each episode, going over the key points, placing it in context, and making connections with other ideas, topics, and authors. Topics include psychology, philosophy, history, and economics of education; pedagogy and teaching methods; neurology and cognitive science; and schools and school systems in historical and international perspective.

Publisher

Stanislaw Pstrokonski

Category

education · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Jan 2016

Latest episode

2 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 208 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   2 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Announcing Panglot World Languages

   There are around 7000 languages in the world, and we know so little about them. On my new podcast, Panglot World Languages, I speak with a guest about 1 new language per week. We get into both the social side (the language community, history, how the interviewee feels about the language etc) and the linguistic side (unusual ways of expression, untranslatable words etc) of each language. See you over there!

2. 

   31 Dec 2024

   Goodbye :)

   Host [Host Name] shares personal reflections and key lessons learned from "Education Bookcast" while discussing the launch of Panglot Labs Ltd.

3. 

   25 Jan 2024

   156. Entrepreneurial expertise

   Host [Host Name] interviews [Guest Name, Credential] about developing entrepreneurial expertise in wicked domains, exploring effectual vs. predictive frames and the entrepreneurial ask.

Inside a recent episode

Announcing Panglot World Languages

Published 2 Apr 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So the main announcement that I want to make is that I have a new podcast now. This podcast is called Panglott World Languages, and it's about languages around the world. So there are absolutely tons of languages in the world. There are 7,000 or so, 6 or 7,000 depending on who you ask. And really, most people, including linguists, don't know very much about almost any of them. As in, if you pull together the knowledge of all the linguists in the world and all the stuff that's written in books and everything, then you would actually have a very rich picture of all the languages in the world. But it's rare for anybody to know more than, you know, I don't know, a few dozen maybe languages, not even in depth, just even to know a little bit about several dozen languages is very rare. […]

Who has been a guest on Education Bookcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• [Guest Name]
• Dr David Lee
• Lucy Green
• Bill Rogers

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

34 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

158 ratings

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