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MICROCOLLEGE: The Thoreau College Podcast — 94 episodes

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Gutenberg College - Charley Dewberry ~ Christian Liberal Arts & The Philosophy of Science

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Hildegard College - Matthew J. Smith ~ The Great Books & Education for Entrepreneurs

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Zena Hitz - The Catherine Project & St. John's College

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Rethinking "Mental Health" in Finland ~ Markus Raivio and the Kukunori Culture Houses

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Douglas Haynes - Teaching Toward Slow Hope

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Abby Falik - The Flight School

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Doomer Optimism - Ashley Fitzgerald

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Pedagogies of Collapse - Ginie Servant-Miklos

9

John C. Campbell Folk School - Bethany Chaney and Annie Fain Barralon

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Anthroposophical Youth Movement - Adeline Lyons and Gabel Cramer

11

Reyn Hutten, Lulah Entwistle - Outer Coast, Sitka, Alaska

12

Antón Barba-Kay - Microcollege Education Against Digital Dehumanization

13

Troy Vine - Masters in Transformative Learning, Ruskin Mill Centre, United Kingdom

14

A Public Affair w/ Douglas Haynes on 89.9 WORT FM -- The State of the Microcollege Movement

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Matt Voz & Shawn Lavoie - Youth Initiative High School

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Esther Crotser, Livian Roth-Amodt - Education for Solidarity and Resilience

17

Kristen Case - The Monson Seminar and Henry David Thoreau's Kalendar

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L. Jackson Newell - Lucien L. Nunn, Deep Springs College History, History and Philosophy of Experiemental Higher Education

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Melanie Lenehan - Fircroft College, Birmingham, England

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Mette and Lars Højland - Human First!, Menneske Først, LifeDialogues, Danish Folk High Schools

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Kayleigh Johnson, Julia Machlin - Lamplight Program, Guntersville, Alabama

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Libby Sanders - Camphill Academy, Camphill Research Network

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Ivey Patton - Gap Year Launchpad

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Ezra Fradkin, Liz Jordan - Kroka Expeditions, Adventure Education, Wilderness and Consciousness

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Jennifer DeCoste - LifeSchoolHouse, Folk School Networks, Community Development

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Chris Higgins - Philosophy of Formative Education

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Episode #67: Ezra Sullivan - Threefold Educational Foundation Youth Co-Lab

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Episode #66: Julia Buskirk, Benjamin Bernard-Herman - Thoreau College Residencies

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Episode #65: Stanton Davis - The Living Voice, Breath, Vitality, Theater, Viroqua Shakespeare Festival

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Episode #64: Craig Holdredge, Ryan Shea - Goethean Science, Nature Institute, Ghent, NY

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Episode #63: Grace Greenwald - Pedagogies to Address the Meaning Crisis

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Episode #62 - Drs. Rutger Engels, Ginie Servant-Miklos - Bildung Climate School, Rotterdam, NL

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Episode #61: Felipe Medina, Jakob Seidler - Suna Barichara, Colombia

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Episode #60: Hannah Schwartz - Riverflow Community, Monkton, VT

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Episode #59: Patrick Doyle - Wendell Berry, Metamorphosis, Theater

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Episode #58: Megan Durney, Kim Vaughan - Threefold Community Farm, Chestnut Ridge, NY

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Episode #57: Dr. Dan McKanan: Camphills, Intentional Communities, and the Spiritual Roots of Radical Change

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Episode #56: Dr. Richard Kyte - Finding Your Third Place

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Episode #55: Eric Schwarz - College for Social Innovation, Boston, MA

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Episode #54: Andrea de la Cruz, Nathaniel Williams - The Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland

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Episode #53: Blake Boles - Unschool Adventures

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Episode #52: Christine Deck - Deck Family Farm, Willamette Valley, Oregon

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Episode #51: Philip Francis - Seguinland Institute, The Good Life Gap Year, Maine

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Episode #50: Lene Rachel Andersen - The Nordic Secret for Cultivating Beauty, Freedom, Democracy, and Prosperity

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Episode #49: Jill Nephew - Inquiry, Education, Artificial Vs. Natural Intelligence

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Episode #48: Liz Rog, Amy Arnold - Community Singing

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Episode #47: Philippe Mesly, Julia Henderson - Great Lakes Institute, Canada

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Episode #46: Chris Barlow - High Mountain Institute, Leadville, Colorado

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Episode #45: Keri McWilliams - Gap Year Association

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Episode #44: Dev Carey - High Desert Center, Paonia, Colorado

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Episode #43: Ben Samuels, Max Feigelson - Deep Springs College Student Reflections, League of Nunnian Schools

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Episode #42: Jennifer Jensen, Gordon Jones - Mt. Liberty College, Murray, Utah, Liberty Through Virtue

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Episode #41: Dawn Breeze - PlaceCorps and the Kingston Fellowship, Kingston, NY

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Episode #40: Dr. Jenny Finn - Sourced Design at Springhouse Community School, Floyd, Virginia

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Episode #39: Dr. Evan Edwards - Food, Philosophy, and Myth

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Episode #38: Ethan Kobayashi-Hsieh - Theater Arts & Wisdom Cultivation

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Episode #37: Ahmed Yehia, Muhammad Bassyouny - Bedouin Immersion at Nour Holistic Education, St. Catherine, Egypt

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Episode #36: Ana Keilson, Justin Reynolds - Gull Island Institute, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts

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Episode #35: Brandon Ipiña, Maurielle McGarvey - Thoreau College Alumni Reflections

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Episode #34: Pavel Cenkl - Dartington Trust and Schumacher College in Devon, UK

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Episode #33: Dawn Murphy on Folk Education in North America

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Episode #32: Linda Conroy - Education for Herbalists

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Episode #31: Zak Stein - Education In a Time Between Worlds

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Episode #30: Miles Iton - Lo-Fi Language Learning Microcollege

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Episode #29: Rick Thomas - Sterling College, Wendell Berry Farming Program

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Episode #28: Kotaro Aoki - Expanded Liberal Arts At Kotowari School, Aizu, Japan

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Episode #27: Mike Haasl - SKIP: Skills to Inherit Property

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Episode #26: Reinoud Meijer, Noam Hitsch - The International Youth Initiative Program

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Episode #25: Eddy Nix, Rose Bruce on Reading Shakespeare for 148 Hours Straight

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Episode #24: Chris Knapp - The Maine Local Living School

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Episode #23: Laura Marcus - The Glacier Bay Year at Tidelines Institute, Gustavus, Alaska

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Episode #22: Vilhelm Skoglund - Effective Altruism and the Future Academy

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Episode #21: Dr. Ilana Redstone - Thinking Beyond Bigots and Snowflakes, The Mill Institute at UATX

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Episode #20: Marcus Ford - Flagstaff College

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Episode #19: Dave Puig, Justys Grenier - Outward Bound and Expeditionary Learning

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Episode #18: Eric Anglada, Brenna Cussen Anglada - The Catholic Worker Movement, Nuns and Nones

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Episode #17: Lene Rachel Andersen - The Nordic Secret and Global Bildung

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Episode #16: Frank Eccher, Emily Drukman - Outer Coast College, Sitka, Alaska

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Episode #15: John Vervaeke on the Meaning Crisis and Cultivating an Ecology of Practices

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Announcements!

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Episode #14: Jonas Søvik - Bildung and the Danish Folk High School Experience

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Episode #13: Willie E. Jones III on Shakespeare, The Classics, and Theatre Education

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Episode #12: Bridget O'Brien, Dr. Charlie Brennan - Permaculture, Praxis, and Play

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Episode #11: David W. Orr - Ecological Literacy in Higher Education

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Episode #10: Steve Lawless on Service Learning and Adventure Education

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Episode #9: Nathaniel Williams, Stefan Ambrose - The MC Richards Program at Free Columbia

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Episode #8: Austin Smith - Leaving Stanford, Coming Home

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Episode #7: Julie Tomaro, Nicholas WazeeGale - Folk Schools, Skills, and Knowledge

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Episode #6: Ciarán Willis - Rethinking Remote Learning at A Place Beyond

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Episode #5: Sue Darlington - Deep Springs College and The Edge of Academia

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Episode #4: Lucien Dante Lazar - Art and Anthroposophy as a Pedagogy for Self-Development

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Episode #3: Dr. Julie Shackelford and the International People’s College

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Episode #2: Jacob Rowland, Liam McGilligan - Thoreau College Alumni Reflections

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Episode #1: Jacob Hundt - An Introduction to Microcolleges and Thoreau College