MICROCOLLEGE: The Thoreau College Podcast

by 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 microcollege initiative rooted in the Driftless Region of rural southwestern Wisconsin, and inspired by the model o... Read more
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Podcast episodes

  • E34 - Episode #34: Pavel Cenkl - Dartington Trust and Schumacher College in Devon, UK

    E34 - Episode #34: Pavel Cenkl - Dartington Trust and Schumacher College in Devon, UK

    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 educati...

    50:20

  • E33 - Episode #33: Dawn Murphy on Folk Education in North America

    E33 - Episode #33: Dawn Murphy on Folk Education in North America

    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...

    57:53

  • E32 - Episode #32: Linda Conroy - Education for Herbalists

    E32 - Episode #32: Linda Conroy - Education for Herbalists

    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...

    59:07

  • E31 - Episode #31: Zak Stein - Education In a Time Between Worlds

    E31 - Episode #31: Zak Stein - Education In a Time Between Worlds

    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 beco...

    57:08

  • E30 - Episode #30: Miles Iton - Lo-Fi Language Learning Microcollege

    E30 - Episode #30: Miles Iton - Lo-Fi Language Learning Microcollege

    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 ed...

    48:14