About the show
A solo essay series on what culture does to knowledge.
The Cultural Context of Knowledge is not interview radio. Each episode is an argument I have written, recorded, and revised — ten to twenty minutes long, paired with a written companion essay and a reading list for anyone who wants to follow the trail further.
I make the show because I have spent thirty years inside the academy and I have come to believe that what we know is inseparable from how we came to know it. The show is the long way of working that conviction out, in public.
Most education conversations treat knowledge as neutral. This show argues it isn’t. Curriculum, assessment, pedagogy — each is shaped by the cultures, histories, and power structures that produced it. Naming that context is the precondition for serving every learner.
About the host
Dr. Donald Easton-Brooks, Ph.D.
Three decades, one question: whose knowledge counts?
Dr. Donald Easton-Brooks is a scholar, author, and keynote speaker advancing equity in education and leadership. With more than 95 publications and 30+ years in higher education, he is internationally recognized for his research on ethnic matching, culturally responsive teaching, and teacher diversity.
He is the recipient of the Philip C. Chinn Book Award (NAME, 2019) and the Neuner Award for Excellence in Professional Scholarly Publication (AAUA, 2020). He currently serves at the University of Nevada, Reno.
This podcast is his first sustained attempt to write for the ear — to take the questions that have shaped a career of scholarship and ask them, slowly, in public.
Publications
Years in higher ed
Award-winning author
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