206 episodes
Education Bookcast Stanislaw Pstrokonski
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4.8 • 35 Ratings
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Education Bookcast is a podcast principally for teachers and parents who would like to know more about education. We cover one education-related book or article each episode, going over the key points, placing it in context, and making connections with other ideas, topics, and authors.
Topics include psychology, philosophy, history, and economics of education; pedagogy and teaching methods; neurology and cognitive science; and schools and school systems in historical and international perspective.
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156. Entrepreneurial expertise
In order to understand learning, we need to understand the result of learning - expertise. This is much easier to approach in so-called "kind" domains, such as chess, where the rules are fixed and all information is available. However, there exist more "wicked" domains than this, such as tennis (where your opponent changes each match) or stock market investment (where the world is different each time). How do we study the development of expertise in fields such as these?
Chapter 22 of The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance, entitled Toward Deliberate Practice in the Development of Entrepreneurial Expertise: The Anatomy of the Effectual Ask, concerns expertise in the art of entrepreneurship. This is a wicked domain par excellence, so much so as to throw into doubt the applicability or at least the generalisability of ideas about expertise from other domains, and yet the Handbook has a chapter approaching this topic, which is commendable.
In this episode, you will hear about two key concepts that have arisen out of research on expert entrepreneurship - the Effectual vs. Predictive Frame; and the Entrepreneurial Ask. In other words, we will look at what research has to say about successful entrepreneurs' true attitudes vs. the popular conception in the media, and how they develop their skills.
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155. How experts see
There has been a ton of research on how experts see things differently than novices. (Like, with their eyes.) Everything from where they look, how long they focus for, and their use of peripheral vision, to their ability to anticipate what is going to happen through picking up subtle visual patterns.
In this episode, I summarise and discuss this research.
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154. Mindsets everywhere
Mindset was the first thing I spoke about on this podcast. I even did a separate episode going into the controversies surrounding replication of Carol Dweck's original work. Then there were stress mindsets, introduced by Kelly McGonigal in her book The Upside of Stress. (I happen to have also covered a book by her twin sister Jane, Reality is Broken, about applying the motivational principles learned by game designers in wider life situations).
But now I've encountered another kind of mindset: self-motivation mindset. Although the authors of Self-Regulation of Motivation: A Renewable Resource for Learning (2019) didn't name it that, it clearly is a type of mindset, in that it is a belief about oneself and one's potential. So now that we have not one, not two, but three mindsets to think about, I think it's time we tried to generalise as much as we can, and simply admit: mindsets matter. What other beliefs could there be that are affecting people's learning?
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153. Comparing learning different dance styles: Argentine Tango vs. Ballroom & Latin (Dancesport)
I haven't spoken on the podcast yet about my personal experience learning dancing. At university, I took part in dancesport, which is competitive ballroom and latin dancing; and in the last few years I have been learning to dance tango. I am struck by the differences in philosophies, skill sets, values, and learning cultures between these dance styles, so I wanted to share my experience with you.
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Music used in this episode:
Uno by Anibal Troilo https://open.spotify.com/track/5TFzKLS8tjVMikVaOllr8L?si=69d0c8fbee934d2e
Orgullo Criollo by Osvaldo Pugliese https://open.spotify.com/track/74CjrywI50qOpaLrXo02ik?si=91b1644591a74407
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go by Wham! https://open.spotify.com/track/0ikz6tENMONtK6qGkOrU3c?si=76304e73b1b04754
Dear Future Husband by Meghan Trainor https://open.spotify.com/track/3cU2wBxuV6nFiuf6PJZNlC?si=0dd4a5e2a23c46bc
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152. [VIDEO] Education and generative AI: conference video for STEM MAD Melbourne, October 23
This is my first ever attempt at a VIDEO podcast. If you just listen to the audio, you should be fine.
This was a video produced for the STEM MAD conference in Melbourne in October 2023. Unfortunately I couldn't attend the conference, so I made this video to introduce the panel discussion on the role of generative AI in education.
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151. 8 years, 150 episodes
This is a quick review of where I am now after 150 episodes and just short of 8 years of Education Bookcast.
Thanks for all of your support! Feel free to leave a review of the podcast, or, if you wish, support me on https://www.buymeacoffee.com/edubookcast .
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Customer Reviews
Eye Opening Roller Coaster
This podcast has been an eye opening roller coaster of a journey. I am now on episode 95 and determined to go through. It has given me invaluable insights for my six-grader’s education and in understanding education as a whole. Material reviewed is top notch, including some bestselling books, and commentary is high quality, to the point that I listen even to those episodes where I have already read the book, and still find it valuable. I wish our educators and education policy-makers had at least a fraction of this knowledge. I hope Stash manages to distill this into a comprehensive practical guidelines for education reform. We in Georgia are certainly in need of this.
My favorite podcast about education
Incredibly clear thinking process presented the same way makes it an amazing and insightful listening experience. Looking forward to more!
Cream of the Crop in Education Podcasts
I am a professional piano teacher and I have listened to many podcasts across a wide range of fields, including education. I found Education Bookcast because I wanted to learn more about Direct Instruction and Siegfried Engelmann, and this was one of the few resources that covered this topic. The two episodes on DI and Engelmann were fabulous, and then I dug in more with his episodes on John Wooden, Marva Collins, and Jaime Escalante. These episodes have given me so much food for thought as a teacher and has hugely broadened my perspective. I think that Stas’s comments along the way are incredibly insightful, because he interacts with the material in a way that actually anticipates thoughts and responses I myself would have as well. For example, he compares Marva Collins’ generous usage of praise with research on mindset by Carol Dweck for instance, and gives a fascinating discussion of how those two contrasting ideas fit together. Alternately, he often emphasizes things that are completely outside of what I typically think about, like the necessity of exercising and projecting authority and power as a teacher, and this gives me a lot to consider. Thanks for your work Stas, I am grateful to have your very rich reflections on teaching and education and I feel that I have benefited a lot as a piano teacher from them.
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