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MICROCOLLEGE: The Thoreau College Podcast

Thoreau College

MICROCOLLEGE is an exploration of the crisis in higher education and the innovative projects and thinkers working to address it, with a special focus on the human-scaled, place-based, meaning-oriented learning communities we call "microcolleges."The podcast is hosted by Jacob Hundt, Founder of Thoreau College, a micro college rooted in the Driftless Region of rural southwestern Wisconsin, inspired by the model of Deep Springs College, Waldorf education, and Henry David Thoreau. This podcast is for

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Episode #34: Pavel Cenkl - Dartington Trust and...

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2023/05/22

Pavel Cenkl is the Director of Learning and Land, and Head of Schumacher College in Totnes, United Kingdom and previously served as the Dean of Sterling College Vermont. Pavel has worked for more than two decades in higher education in America and has always been drawn to colleges and universities whose curriculum fully integrates learning with practice and thinking with embodiment.Schumacher College: https://campus.dartington.org/schumacher-college/Dartington Trust:

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

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2023/05/02

Dawn is a fellow with Fielding Graduate University's Marie Fielder Center for Democracy, Leadership and Education and is currently in the final stages of her Ph.D. journey. Dawn's area of focus combines her work as the facilitator of the Folk School Alliance and her study of transformational learning for social justice.The Folk School Alliance began in 2013 and includes over ninety North American Folk Schools. This group began meeting monthly through an online platform in 2018 and continues today

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Episode #32: Linda Conroy - Education for Herbalists

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2023/04/04

Linda Conroy is a bioregional herbalist, herbal and traditional food educator and a community organizer. She dedicates her life to connecting with the green world as well as sharing the wisdom of the earth. Her primary mentors are the plants who never cease to instill a sense of awe in her daily life. Linda has a certificate in permaculture design, which she completed through the International Earth Activist Program and has been a student of compassionate nonviolent communication for close to 20

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

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2023/03/28

Zak Stein studied philosophy and religion at Hampshire College, and then educational neuroscience, human development, and the philosophy of education at Harvard University. While a student at Harvard, he co-founded what would become Lectica, Inc., a non-profit dedicated to the research-based, justice-oriented reform of large-scale standardized testing in K-12, higher-education, and business.He is also a writer whose work has appeared in a variety of journals including American Psychologist, New

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

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2023/03/21

Miles Iton tells the story of the founding of the Lo-Fi Language Learning microcollege and the influences that shaped him and the program's pedagogy.The mission of the Lo-Fi Language Learning microcollege is "to modernize men's educational experiences and career prospects in the Humanities by designing a liberal arts experience around a pedagogy based on the five pillars of hip-hop; breaking, DJ'ing, emceeing, graffiti art and knowledge"Miles “Irie Givens” Iton is an interdisciplinary educator and

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Episode #29: Rick Thomas - Sterling College, Wendell...

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2023/03/14

Rickey Glen Thomas "RT" preaches the gospel of draft animal power and agrarian education, describing a pedagogy borne from the musings of Wendell Berry.Rick Thomas is a horseman, farmer, author and educator who heads the Sterling College Wendell Berry Farming Program, located in Henry County, Kentucky.Sterling College: https://www.sterlingcollege.edu/Wendell Berry Farming Program: https://www.sterlingcollege.edu/wendellberry/The Berry Center: https://berrycenter.org/Learn more about Thoreau College

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Episode #28: Kotaro Aoki - Expanded Liberal Arts At...

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2023/03/08

Kotaro Aoki describes his journey to merge the western liberal arts tradition with eastern contemplative and philosophical practices at his school Kotowari in Aizu Prefecture, Japan.般社団法人 'KOTOWARI' "that which remains unchanging underneath the surface of change"Kotaro Aoki is the founder and director of KOTOWARI, an educational organization based in Japan. He has years of experience in designing and managing academic courses and educational programs. He has been inspired by his undergraduate

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

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2023/02/21

Mike Haasl of Rhinelander, WI joins Jacob for a discussion on the importance of responsible land stewardship, and the development of skills and capacities that might help a person acquire land without breaking the bank.Mike Haasl is a homesteader, engineer, and author living in northern Wisconsin. He studied and partied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and worked is an engineer for many years before starting a homestead 8 years ago and transition to a role as an educator and teacher of

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Episode #26: Reinoud Meijer, Noam Hitsch - The...

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2023/02/08

Reinoud Meijer and Noam Hitsch join us from Sweden to talk about the International Youth Initiative Program, with special attention to the meaning and practice of the word "initiative".Reinoud Meijer (Born 1975 in Amersfoort, the Netherlands) has been involved with youth and education for many years. He organized, facilitated, initiated and founded a number of youth conferences, projects, and initiatives before co-founding the YIP program.He has a passion for human potential and development, for

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Episode #25: Eddy Nix, Rose Bruce on Reading...

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2023/01/22

Eddy and Rose riff on the true identity of William Shakespeare.Eddy Nix is a Viroqua resident and proprietor of Driftless Books and Music, possibly Wisconsin's largest used bookstore, located in a 100-year old tobacco warehouse. He is a Shakespeare aficionado who has also worked as a teacher and theater director, and is currently the lead publisher at Ramshackle Press.Rose Bruce is a Viroqua resident who, when she is not involved in Shakespearean endeavors, works in the sectors of forestry and

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

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2023/01/17

Chris Knapp is a father, homesteader, environmental educator and founder of Maine Local Living School. He is passionate about sharing pathways into relationship with the human and more-than-human communities through hand craft, homesteading arts and deep listening. Chris is endlessly fascinated by the exploration of why the world is as it is and the human potential for creativity and positive change. Chris has designed and taught experiential programming for grade-schoolers to graduate students for

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Episode #23: Laura Marcus - The Glacier Bay Year at...

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2023/01/10

Laura Marcus weaves together a beautiful web of her educational and professional experiences, from her public school upbringing in Indianapolis, employment at Deep Springs College, to the founding of her own educational initiatives as an adult.Laura is committed to a vision of education that integrates the active life with the life of the mind. As co-executive director of Tidelines Institute and founding director of the Arete Project, she has worked with her students to create experiential and

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Episode #22: Vilhelm Skoglund - Effective Altruism...

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2022/12/20

Vilhelm Skoglund is the secretary-general of Effective Altruism Sweden. In October 2022, Vilhelm and Effective Altruism Sweden launched Future Academy, a five month long free program aimed to equip university students and young professionals from around the world with the thinking, skills, and resources they will need to pursue ambitious and impactful careers. He has several board positions within the non-profit sector and co-founded Nema Problema, a non-profit aiming to make migration policies more

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Episode #21: Dr. Ilana Redstone - Thinking Beyond...

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2022/12/13

Ilana Redstone outlines her work and approach towards tackling polarization on college campuses and beyond.Ilana Redstone is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a Founding Faculty Fellow at UATX, and the Faculty Director of The Mill Center at UATX. She is the co-author of “Unassailable Ideas: How Unwritten Rules and Social Media Shape Discourse in American Higher Education” and the creator of the “Beyond Bigots and Snowflakes'' video series. She is

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Episode #20: Marcus Ford - Flagstaff College

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2022/12/06

Marcus Ford breaks down what makes a microcollege different from a small-liberal arts college, and talks about Flagstaff College, a microcollege initiative in Flagstaff, Arizona.Marcus Ford, Ph.D. is the co-founder of Flagstaff College and a retired professor from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. He is the author of several books, including Beyond the Modern University: Toward a Constructive Post-Modern University and William James: A New Perspective.Flagstaff College:

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Episode #19: Dave Puig, Justys Grenier - Outward...

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2022/11/29

Dave, Justys, and Jacob trade tales of transformational wilderness experiences, and discuss the origins and importance of expeditionary learning as a field.Dave Puig has been a wilderness instructor for fourteen years, leading expeditions in the desert, the Arctic, the wondrous Northwoods, and into the minds of authors, social critics, and high school students. He developed the expedition-based Land Ethics Curriculum at Youth Initiative High School which challenges students to see their own growth

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Episode #18: Eric Anglada, Brenna Cussen Anglada -...

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2022/11/22

Eric and Brenna Anglada describe the origins of the Catholic Worker Movement and the more recent organization Nuns and Nones.Brenna Cussen Anglada is a founding member of the St. Isidore CW Farm in southwest Wisconsin, home of the Ho Chunk, Meskwaki, Sauk, and many other nations. She serves as the Religious Communities Liaison for the N&N Land Justice Project, and works with the Catholic Native Boarding School Accountability and Healing Project.Eric Anglada is a college dropout and co-founder of

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Episode #17: Lene Rachel Andersen - The Nordic Secret...

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2022/11/15

Lene Rachel Andersen expresses the importance of Bildung philosophy, describing its origins in 18th-century Denmark and impact on Scandinavian societies through to the present day.Lene Rachel Andersen is a Danish author, economist, futurist, and philosopher, President of Nordic Bildung, and co-founder of Global Bildung Network.https://www.nordicsecret.org/Nordic Metamodern PodcastGlobal Bildung NetworkNordic Bildung

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Episode #16: Frank Eccher, Emily Drukman - Outer...

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2022/11/09

Jacob is joined by Frank and Emily of Outer Coast College to talk their story in Sitka, microcolleges, place-based education, and more.Frank Eccher is the College Launch Lead at Outer Coast in Sitka, AK, where he is charting a course to accreditation for the launch of Outer Coast College in fall 2024. Originally from a small town in Colorado, he has written on trout conservation and wilderness narratives in the Mountain West, patterns of college attendance in rural America, among other topics. He

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Episode #15: John Vervaeke on the Meaning Crisis and...

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2022/10/25

John Vervaeke and Jacob discuss the importance of thinking, dialogue, and meaning, and explore ways to overcome the barriers we face today in understanding these facets of our humanity in the context of education for young adults and beyond.John Vervaeke, PhD, is an award-winning lecturer at the University of Toronto in the departments of psychology, cognitive science and Buddhist psychology, who has published a 50-part lecture series known as "Awakening From the Meaning Crisis".Awakening From the

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