Tag: University of Florida
Conversations with Children About Race
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Conversation-with-Children-About-Race.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/4/2004 Conversations with Children About Race Transcript Recently, at the University of Florida we began a campus-wide discussion about race, based on Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum’s book, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? We wanted to continue the conversation today with […]
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Why-are-All-the-Black-Kids-Sitting-Together-in-the-Cafeteria.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/9/2004 Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Transcript Today, at the University of Florida, we are having a community-wide conversation about race — one of the continuing and pressing concerns in our own area and in our nation as […]
Becoming a Paleontologist
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-Paleontologists-Childhood.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/2/2003 Becoming a Paleontologist Transcript It’s the National Month of the Dionsaur, and we asked Dr. Penny Higgins, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Florida Museum of Natural History and a specialist in the ancient fossils of horses, about what inspired her to choose this […]
Children, Culture and Violence
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Children-Culture-and-Violence.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/18/2003 Children, Culture and Violence Transcript What do Children, Culture, and Violence have to do with each other, one might ask. Unfortunately, the answer is: everything. Just as violence is, alas, a factor in our everyday adult lives, every day, we find that violence […]
A History of the Whistle
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-History-of-the-Whistle.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 11/6/2002 A History of the Whistle Transcript Should it be any wonder that children love whistles? Whistles are happy – they fit neatly in little hands and little pockets and they endow their bearer with a disproportionate ability to be heard-loud and clear. The […]
The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes
Recently, we spoke with Barbara Woodhouse, director of the University of Florida's Center for Children and the Law, about one of the most memorably books of her childhood, The Country Bunny.
Nancy Dowd’s “Redefining Fatherhood”
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Nancy-Dowd.mp3 Author John Cech with Nancy Dowd Air Date 3/1/2001 Redefining Fatherhood Transcript Our guest today is Nancy Dowd, University Research Foundation Professor and Trustee Research Scholar at the University of Florida’s College of Law. Her new book (from New York University Press) is called Redefining Fatherhood, and in it […]
Mary Ann Eaverly
In our ongoing series about children's books that have mattered to people throughout their lives, we asked Mary Ann Eaverly, a professor of classical archaeology at the University of Florida whose specialty is archaic Greek sculpture, about her favorite children's book, Gene Stratton-Porter's Freckles.
Singing the Blues with Mr. Johnnie Billington
We’re listening to a little of the closing day concert for a week-long workshop that Mr. Johnnie Billington, a Master Folk Artist from the Mississippi Delta, has been holding here at the University of Florida to teach middle-school students how to play the blues.