Resources

Educational Resources: Critical Theory & Critical Literacy, Neo-marxism, New Literacy Studies


The State of Education:

Delpit, Other People’s Children

Kozol, Savage Inequalities

Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me

Zinn, A People’s History of the U.S.

Foster¸ Black Teachers on Teaching

Berliner and Biddle, The Manufactured Crisis

Takaki, A Different Mirror

Inspirational:

Palmer, The Courage to Teach

McCourt, Teacher Man: A Memoir

Draper, Teaching from the Heart

Rose, Lives on the Boundary

Suskind, A Hope in the Unseen

Ayers, To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher

Ladson-Billings, The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children

Meier, The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons from America from a Small School in Harlem

Nieto, The Light in Their Eyes



Theoretical/Conceptual:

Street, Literacy in Theory and Practice: Social Literacies: Critical Approaches to Literacy in Development, Ethnography and Education; Cross-Cultural Approaches to Literacy

Gee, Situated Langauge and Learning: A Critique of Traditional Schooling; The Social Mind: Language, Ideology and Social Practice

Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Freire,  Pedagogy of the Oppressed; Pedagogy of Hope; Literacy: Reading the World and the Word; Education for Critical Consciousness

Apple, Official Knowledge: Democratic Education in a Conservative Age; Education and Power; Ideology and Curriculum

Giroux, Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning; Theory and Resistance in Education: Towards a Pedagogy for the Opposition

Foucault, Discipline and Punish; History of Sexuality (Vols 1 & 2)

Gramsci, Selections from Political Writings, Prison Notebooks

Vygotsky, Thought and Language

Piaget, The Language and Thought of the Child

Heath, Ways With Words

Holland & Eisenhart, Educated in Romance

Hirsch, Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know; The Schools We Need and Why We Don’t Have Them(Note: I do not subscribe to Hirsch’s theories, but they have become immensely popular and are the basis for “Core Knowledge” schools, the fastest growing curricular movement in the nation)

Mills, The Sociological Imagination

McLaren, Giroux, Peters, Lankshear, Counternarratives: Cultural studies and critical pedagogies in postmodern spaces

Banks and Banks, Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education, 2nd Edition
Dewey, Democracy and Education

Noddings, What Our Schools Should Teach; Happiness and Education

Carlson & Apple, Power/Knowledge/Pedagogy

Chomsky, Hegemony of Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance

Tyack & Cuban, Tinkering Toward Utopia: a Century of Public School Reform.

Campbell & Stanley, Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research

Bowles and Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life

West, Race Matters

de Castell, Luke & Luke, Language, Authority and Criticism

Articles:

Anyon, Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work

McIntosh, White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

Apple, Cultural Capital and Official Knowledge

Authors of Note:

Michael Apple
Henry Giroux
Donald Macedo
Antonio Gramsci
Vivian Gussin Paley
Howard Gardner
Gloria Ladson-Billings
Banks and Banks
Peter McLaren
Christine Sleeter
William Ayers
John Ogbu
William Bennett
Benjamin Bloom
Shirley Brice Heath
Noam Chomsky
Lev Vygotsky

Literacy:
Lave & Wenger
James Gee
Catherine Snow
Katherine Au
Brian Street
Shirley Brice Heath
Jean Piaget
Lev Vygotsky

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