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Podcast: New Books in Education
Episode: W. Germano and K. Nicholls, "Syllabus: The Remarkable, Unremarkable Document that Changes Everything" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Description: Do you teach, or do you care about education? Then you have to read this book. At turns radical in the interventions it proposes in educational practice, at turns perspicacious in the views it opens on the act of teaching, at turns inspirational in the words it drops in the teacher's ear, Syllabus: The Remarkable, Unremarkable Document that Changes Everything (Princeton UP, 2020) belongs in every teacher's hand, as well as in the hands of many an administrator and policymaker.William Germano's and Kit Nicholls's idea to tag an entire pedagogy to one single document is brilliant, and...