New Books in Higher Education
Hosted by Dr Michael LaMagna and Christina Gessler · New Books Network
3.6from 14 ratings
- 736
- Episodes
- 85
- Transcribed
- 14
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2011
- First episode
About New Books in Higher Education
This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork
- Publisher
- New Books Network
- Category
- education · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 9 Sept 2011
- Latest episode
- 20 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
85 of 736 episodes have a transcript.
20 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Designing Historical Games for Classrooms: A Practical Guide for Educators with Jeremiah McCall (Routledge, 2026)
11 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Creating an Informed Citizenry: Knowledge and Democracy in the Early American Republic with George D. Oberle (U Virginia Press, 2025)
10 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Working with Critical Realism: Stories of Methodological Encounters with Alpesh Maisuria and Grant Banfield (Routledge, 2022)
Inside a recent episode
Designing Historical Games for Classrooms: A Practical Guide for Educators with Jeremiah McCall (Routledge, 2026)
Published 20 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I think it's a mixed group. But the people that this seems to speak to the most are the people that know history but haven't thought about how to turn it into a game. Because it's providing you a guide for how do you take that content and put it into game form. Then from there, it becomes a question of how do you assess it? So you assess it on two things. How reasonably does it represent a historical problem space? And then the big thing I promote in the book is, can the students explain, this is how I say it. So with my board games, I make my students make rule books and they have footnotes and annotations and it's very detailed. […]
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- George D Oberle
- Elizabeth de Freitas
- Matthew X Curinga
- Ezekiel J Dixon-Román
- Sally Nuamah
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- 11 ratings
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