I am going to try to keep an updated list of books and talks on education that I am exploring/planning to explore. I'll put recent additions at the top and leave previous entries below, and just re-date this post each time I add to it :)
- Diane Ravitch. The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education. I haven't read this book yet, but saw this author's interview on the Daily Show and will be buying it when I have more book money in my budget.
- Waiting for Superman, a documentary from last year about failing schools and lotteries to get into good schools from bad neighborhoods. It highlighted an inspirational school system called KIPP that is showing that kids in poverty are absolutely capable of doing well in school.
- A.S. Neill. Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood if anyone can help me find a pdf copy of this to read before I can get back to my paperback in Iowa, I would really appreciate it.
- Jonathan Kozol. The Shame of the Nation: the Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America he has given a number of talks with this same content, one of which is available on youtube.
- John Holt. Learning all the Time. Holt began as a teacher and became a proponent of home- and unschooling. He believed that mostly adults need to get out of the way and let kids learn and not try to bog them down with lots of teaching. My mother told me he was a big influence on her decision to homeschool us.
- Eric Jensen's articles on "brain-based teaching" and assisting children living in poverty on his website, Jensen Learning.
- Ken Robinson. "Schools Kill Creativity" and "Bring on the Learning Revolution" (talks on ted.com)
- E. M. Standing. "Montessori: Her Life and Work" (book, which I highly recommend to any interested in investigating how they learn and what they believe about their minds)
I love TED. There is so much good stuff on there for all topics.
ReplyDeleteSummerhill is my all time favorite it isn't as much a methods book or at least not what traditional educators would consider helpful though.
ReplyDeleteI am reading this book for one of my classes it is really good it delas with how we have used education and laws surrounding education to take culture away from minority groups throughout history.
ReplyDeleteSpring, Joel. (2007). Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality. Boston: McGraw-Hill.
I also really like pretty much anything by Sonia Nieto she mostly deals with how to make the education system a place where their is a duality of cultures.