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Nostalgia Trap - Episode 160: Growth Mindset w/ KJ Shepherd
Nostalgia Trap
English - September 02, 2019 21:43 - 1 hour - 106 MB - ★★★★★ - 192 ratingsHistory News Politics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Nostalgia Trap - Episode 159: Subtext Becomes Text w/ Eli Valley
KJ Shepherd is a Ph.D. historian whose research focuses on the history of American standardized testing and the “test preparation” industry it spawned. Along with trading stories about the horrors of teaching the SAT, we have a blunt talk about what’s happening in the history discipline: the impossibility of finding full-time jobs, the humiliation of the application process, the “alt-ac” lie, and much more. But we also discuss the wider historical moment we’re in, and how rising generations of non-tenured Ph.D.’s are shaping the future of scholarly work and public engagement.