After Virtual: Education

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