After a long hiatus, we’re back to release this short, breadcrumb episode, number 89, with Dr. Jane Roland Martin on Education and Gender. Dr. Martin has been a prolific author on the philosophy of education, and in this short episode, explains some of her thinking about past figures in that area, who excluded some things that need to be taught to everyone, and considered their narrower visions the right approach to education for boys. Then, when education for girls caught on, they were thought to need the same education that boys received, excluding those things long considered feminine, which all people should learn.

Dr. Martin was our guest in episode 88 of the show, titled “School Was Our Life.” This short breadcrumb episode is a follow up to that longer conversation, addressing one of the themes of her work. Be sure to check out her most recent book, School Was our Life, as well as The Schoolhome, mentioned in this episode.

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Notes

1. Episode 88 with Dr. Martin, “School Was Our Life,” and her book by that title.
2. Jane Roland Martin, The Schoolhome: Rethinking Schools for Changing Families (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995).

In this 88th episode of Philosophy Bakes Bread, “School Was Our Life,” Dr. Jane Roland Martin, author of School Was Our Life (2018), joins Eric Thomas Weber and Anthony Cashio to talk about progressive education.

Dr. Jane Roland Martin is professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She has published many books on philosophy, education, and gender and received a Guggenheim Award. Her most recent book is titled School Was Our Life, published in 2018 with Indiana University Press. Thank you for joining us today, Jane! Eric’s colleague, Dr. Beth Goldstein, in Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation at the University of Kentucky, called his attention to Martin’s 1991 essay titled “The Contradiction and the Challenge of the Educated Woman,” which inspired him and Anthony to reach out to Dr. Martin, who is an authority in the philosophy of education.

 Listen for our “You Tell Me!” questions and for some jokes in one of our concluding segments, called “Philosophunnies.” Reach out to us on Facebook @PhilosophyBakesBread and on Twitter @PhilosophyBB; email us at philosophybakesbread@gmail.com; or call and record a voicemail that we play on the show, at 859.257.1849. Philosophy Bakes Bread is a production of the Society of Philosophers in America (SOPHIA). Check us out online at PhilosophyBakesBread.com and check out SOPHIA at PhilosophersInAmerica.com.

(1 hr 16mins)

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Notes

1. Jane Roland Martin, School Was Our Lives (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2018).
2. Israel Sheffler. 
3. Summerhill School in England, and A. S. Neill.  
4. The Dalton School in New York. 
5. The Little Red Schoolhouse Wikipedia page.
6.  Pamela Paul, “Let Children Get Bored Again,” The New York Times, February 2, 2019. 
7. John Dewey on “Play and Work in the Curriculum,” Chapter 15 of Democracy and Education (New York: The Free Press, 1916/1997). 
8. Elisabeth Irwin of the Little Red Schoolhouse on Wikipedia.com. 

You Tell Me!

Dr. Martin’s question for listeners is inspired by her work on a new, forthcoming book: 

“Do you think that to preserve the natural environment of the planet that has allowed our species to flourish human nature has to change? If so, can we change it?”

Let us know what you think! Via Twitter, Facebook, Email, or by commenting here below.

In this 86th episode of Philosophy Bakes Bread, called “French Toast Episode,” Eric Thomas Weber and Anthony Cashio return to some tasty bread morsels from past episodes, voicemails, and recordings, moistening them with some egg, sugar, and cinnamon for a tasty treat. 

In the first segment, we revisit a number of voicemails that we hadn’t had a chance to respond to in past episodes. Then, in segments two and three, we return to some material we recorded on the Upper West Branch of the Penobscott River in Maine, on a Philosophy Bakes Bread trip we took with Apeiron Expeditions. Our friends in the conversations were Seth Walton, Ben Vockley, and Alex Strong. Alex was our main guide and is the owner of Apeiron Expeditions. The three of them were our guests in Episode 75 of the show, titled “Outdoor Education.” And, Alex was our guest earlier in Episode 57, “Philosophy Outdoors.” Then, in the final segment of this episode, Anthony and I think back on our second year hosting the show, 2018. We list a bunch of our favorite episodes of the year. Give a listen and check out those episodes!

Listen for our “You Tell Me!” questions and for some jokes in one of our concluding segments, called “Philosophunnies.” Reach out to us on Facebook @PhilosophyBakesBread and on Twitter @PhilosophyBB; email us at philosophybakesbread@gmail.com; or call and record a voicemail that we play on the show, at 859.257.1849. Philosophy Bakes Bread is a production of the Society of Philosophers in America (SOPHIA). Check us out online at PhilosophyBakesBread.com and check out SOPHIA at PhilosophersInAmerica.com.

(1 hr 16mins)

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Notes

1. This episode was prepared and released in early 2019 as a reflection on our second year of the show, 2018. Thanks to all for your support and encouragement!

You Tell Me!

For our future “You Tell Me!” segments, tell us:

“Which was your favorite episode of 2018?”

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In episode 85 of Philosophy Bakes Bread, Eric Thomas Weber and Anthony Cashio interview Dr. William Irwin today about his most recent book, God Is a Question, Not an Answer published in December 2018 with Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.

Dr. Irwin is Herve A. LeBlanc Distinguished Service Professor and Chair of Philosophy at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He is also the author of The Free Market Existentialist (2015) and of Little Siddartha (2018). In addition, he is also the editor of numerous books on philosophy and popular culture, including: Seinfeld and Philosophy (1999), The Simpsons and Philosophy (2001), and The Matrix and Philosophy (2002). He was editor of these books and then General Editor of the Popular Culture and Philosophy Series through Open Court Publishing. In 2006, Irwin left Open Court to become the General Editor of The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series, which includes Metallica and Philosophy (2007) and Black Sabbath and Philosophy (2012), among other volumes.

Listen for our “You Tell Me!” questions and for some jokes in one of our concluding segments, called “Philosophunnies.” Reach out to us on Facebook @PhilosophyBakesBread and on Twitter @PhilosophyBB; email us at philosophybakesbread@gmail.com; or call and record a voicemail that we play on the show, at 859.257.1849. Philosophy Bakes Bread is a production of the Society of Philosophers in America (SOPHIA). Check us out online at PhilosophyBakesBread.com and check out SOPHIA at PhilosophersInAmerica.com.

(1 hr)

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Notes

1. William Irwin’s God Is a Question, Not an Answer (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2019).
2. Kamel Daoud, The Mersault Investigation (New York: Other Press, 2015).
3. Albert Camus, The Stranger (New York: Knopf, 1993).
4. William Irwin, Little Siddhartha: A Sequel (Brunswick, ME: Shanti Arts Publishing, 2018).
5. Richard Rorty, “Human Rights, Rationality, and Sentimentality,” in Stephen Shute, ed. On Human Rights: Oxford Amnesty Lectures (New York: Basic Books, 1994), 111-134.
6. Bill’s philosophunny reference: Saturday Night Live’s “NPR Delicious Dish: Schweddy Balls,” Season 24, 1998:

You Tell Me!

For our future “You Tell Me!” segments, Bill asked the following question in this episode:

“What’s the last big issue that you could admit that you were wrong about?”

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In episode 84 of Philosophy Bakes Bread, Eric Thomas Weber and Anthony Cashio interview Dr. Patricia Shields on “Feminism and Peace: Jane Addams’s Legacy.”

Dr. Shields is editor of editor of Jane Addams: Progressive Pioneer of Peace, Philosophy, Sociology, Social Work, and Public Administration, published in 2017. She is also Professor of Political Science at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Armed Forces and Society, the leading peer-reviewed journal on civil-military relations. In addition, Pat has received many awards for excellence in teaching such as the National Association for Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, Leslie A. Whittington Excellence in Teaching Award (2002), The Texas State Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching (2001), the Texas State Faculty Senate, Everette Swinney Teaching Award (2010) as well as the Professor of the Year Award from the Central Texas Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration (2006).

Listen for our “You Tell Me!” questions and for some jokes in one of our concluding segments, called “Philosophunnies.” Reach out to us on Facebook @PhilosophyBakesBread and on Twitter @PhilosophyBB; email us at philosophybakesbread@gmail.com; or call and record a voicemail that we play on the show, at 859.257.1849. Philosophy Bakes Bread is a production of the Society of Philosophers in America (SOPHIA). Check us out online at PhilosophyBakesBread.com and check out SOPHIA at PhilosophersInAmerica.com.

(1 hr, 4 mins)

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Notes

1. Patricia Shields’s book on Jane Addams.
2. YouTube video sponsored by the Journal of Public Integrity on Jane Addams’s social ethics.
3. Addams, J. (1880). Bread Givers. Rockford Daily Register.
4. Addams, J. (1902). Democracy and Social Ethics. New York: MacMillan.
5. Addams, J. (1907). Newer Ideals of Peace. New York: MacMillan.
6. Addams, J. (1913). If men were seeking the franchise. Ladies Home Journal, vol. 30 (June).
7. Addams, J. (1922). Peace and Bread in Times of War. New York: MacMillan.
8. Addams, L. Balch, E. G., & Hanilton, A. (1915/2003) Women at the Hague: The International Congress of Women and its Results. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press.
9. Hamington, M. (2009). The Social Philosophy of Jane Addams. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press.
10. Haslanger, S. (2017). Jane Addams’s “Women and Public Housekeeping. In Schliesser, E. (Ed.) Ten Neglected Classics of Philosophy. Cambridge: Oxford University Press.
11. Rissler, G. and Shields, Patricia (2018). Positive Peace – a necessary touchstone for Public Administration, Administrative Theory and Praxis. https://doi.org/10.1080/10841806.2018.1479549.
12. Seigfried, C. (1996). Pragmatism and feminism: Reweaving the Social Fabric. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
13. Shields, P., & Soeters, J. (2017). Peaceweaving: Jane Addams, positive peace, and Public Administration. American Review of Public Administration, 47(3), 323–339.
14. Shields, P.  (ed.) (2017). Jane Addams: Progressive Pioneer of Peace, Philosophy Sociology, Social Work and Public Administration. New York: Springer.
15. Shields, P. (2017). Limits of Negative Peace, Faces of Positive Peace. Parameters, US Army War College Quarterly, 47(3), 1–12.
16. Shields, P. (2006). Democracy and the Social Ethics of Jane Addams: A Vision for Public Administration. Administrative Theory and Praxis, 28, 418–443.
17. YouTube video on Jane Addams and her Social Ethics, sponsored by the journal Public Integrity, and filmed in March 2018.

You Tell Me!

For our future “You Tell Me!” segments, Pat asked the following question in this episode:

“How do you suggest that we move to a world with less rigid belief structures so that we can resolve our differences?”

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