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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