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The Cultural Context of Knowledge

The Cultural Context of Knowledge

Di: Dr. Donald Easton-Brooks
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Dr. Donald Easton-Brooks on how schools decide whose knowledge counts. Researched, single-voice essays on curriculum, pedagogy, equity, and the cultural context of learning. A companion to donaldeastonbrooks.com.© 2026 Dr. Donald Easton-Brooks Scienze sociali
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  • What Counts as a Match: Caste, Language, and the Question Underneath (S4 E2)

    What Counts as a Match: Caste, Language, and the Question Underneath (S4 E2)
    Oct 28 2026
    In a village primary school in rural India, researchers compared a child with herself: one subject taught by a teacher who shared her gender, caste, and religion, another by a teacher who did not. She scored higher in the matched subject. That is ethnic matching, measured in a country where the markers are not race. This episode asks what counts as the match once the boxes on the form change: what a match has meant in the United States and why that is one country's definition; a new U.S. study finding the largest gains when a teacher shares both a student's ethnicity and language; Japan's Ainu, recognized in 2008 and 2019, and why a match cannot be studied or staffed for until the state admits a people exists. The rule underneath all of it: whoever designs the form decides what a match is. The episode closes with the season's recurring question, would it take root? Join the email list for the show notes, the full reference list, and the written companion to every episode, plus the series reading list to start: https://podcast.donaldeastonbrooks.com/subscribe?from=podcast
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    15 min
  • The Language in the Room: Who Decides What a Child Learns In (S4 E1)

    The Language in the Room: Who Decides What a Child Learns In (S4 E1)
    Oct 21 2026
    In January 1970, the University of Ife in Nigeria began teaching a group of primary children in Yoruba for all six years of school, with English as a subject. In 2022, Nigeria made home-language instruction national policy for the early grades. In November 2025, the next government cancelled it and restored English, citing exam results. The Nigerian Academy of Education said the evidence showed the opposite. This episode follows that decision around the world. UNESCO estimates that about forty percent of the world's people are not taught in a language they understand well. Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Kenya answered the question three different ways. Brazil, Morocco, Catalonia, the Basque Country, and Aotearoa New Zealand wrote a people, or a language, into the lesson, and found that a law takes a year and teachers take a generation. In the United States the question was answered in court, in Lau v. Nichols, 1974, unanimously. The episode closes with the season's recurring question: would it take root? Join the email list for the show notes, the full reference list, and the written companion to every episode, plus the series reading list to start: https://podcast.donaldeastonbrooks.com/subscribe?from=podcast
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    17 min
  • Season 4 Trailer: Whose Room Is It?

    Season 4 Trailer: Whose Room Is It?
    Oct 14 2026
    Season 4 of The Cultural Context of Knowledge follows one question around the world: who teaches whom, in whose language, and who decided. Eight episodes, with the United States in every one of them as one case among many. The trailer opens in four classrooms at eight in the morning, on the coast of Kenya, in central India, in Barcelona, and in San Francisco in 1970. In each, the language of the lesson is not the language of the children's homes. UNESCO estimates that about forty percent of the world's people are not taught in a language they understand well. The trailer also explains why the research season promised at the end of Season 3 is now Season 5, and closes with three questions to try before Episode 1. Join the email list for the show notes, the full reference list, and the written companion to every episode, plus the series reading list to start: https://podcast.donaldeastonbrooks.com/subscribe?from=podcast
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    3 min
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