Book List

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Select a book from this list for your book talk assignment.
Have your assigned instructor approve your selection.
Select a book that you have not read or used in previous classes.

* indicates UMM library owns this book
+ indicates that a faculty member owns this book and is willing to loan it to students
- indicates books recommended by Robert J. Yinger at the MACTE 2005 Conference

Philosophical Theories and Views of Teaching and Learning

*Aronowitz, S. & Giroux, H. (1993).  Education Still Under Siege.
*Carnochan, W.B.  (1993).  The Battleground of the Curriculum.
*Crafton, L.  (1994).  Challenges of Holistic Teaching.
 (1961).  Democracy and Education, an Introduction to the Philosophy of Education.
+Freire, P.  (1998).  Teachers as Cultural Workers:  Letters to Those Who Dare Teach.
+*Freire, P.  (1970, 1993, 1997).  Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
+*Freire, P.  (1992).  Pedagogy of Hope.
+*Hooks, B.  (1994).  Teaching to Transgress:  Education as the Practice of Freedom.
+Johnson, S.M.  (2004).  Finders and Keepers: Helping New Teachers Survive and Thrive in Our Schools.
+Kohn, A.  (1998).  What to Look for In a Classroom.
Langer, E.  (1998).  The Power of Mindful Learning.
Moll, L. (ed.).  (1992).  Vygotsky and Education: Instructional Implications and Applications Of Sociohistorical Psychology.
Novak, J.  (1999).  Learning, Creating, and Using Knowledge
+Silver, H. & Strong, R. & Perini, M.  (2000).  So Each May Learn: Integrating Learning Styles  and Multiple Intelligences
Simon, R.  (1992).  Teaching Against the Grain:  Texts for a Pedagogy of Possibility.
+*Zemelman, S., Daniels, H., & Hyde, A. (1998).  Best Practice: New Standards for Teaching and Learning in America’s Schools.

Brain Based Teaching and Learning

+Armstrong, T.  (1998).  Awakening Genius in the Classroom.
+*Brown, A. & Bransford, J. & Cocking, R.  (2000).  How People Learn:  Brain, Mind, Experience and School.
+Caine, R. & Caine, G.  (1994).  Making Connections: Teaching and the Human Brain.
+Caine, R. & Caine, G.  (1998).  Unleashing the Power of Perceptual Change: The Potential of Brain-Based Teaching.
+Caine, R. & Caine, G.  (1998).  Education on the Edge of Possibility.
+Diamond, M. & Hopson, J.  (1999).  Magic Trees of the Mind:  How to Nurture Your Child’s Intelligence, Creativity, and Healthy Emotions from Birth through Adolescence.   
Jensen, E.  (1997).  Brain-Based Learning and Teaching.
Jensen, E.  (1998).  Introduction to Brain Compatible Learning.
+Jensen, E.  (1998).  Teaching With The Brain In Mind.

Schools and Politics

-Bellah, Robert et al.  The Good Society.
+*Berliner, D. & Biddle, B.  (1995).  The Manufactured Crisis:  Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America’s Public Schools.
-Boyte, Harry.  Everyday Politics.
Bruer, J.  (1994).  Schools for Thought: A Science of Learning in the Classroom.
*Giroux, H.  (1988).  Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life.
*Giroux, H.  (2001).  Public Spaces, Private Lives.
Giroux, H.  (2003).  The Abandoned Generation.
*Howe, H.  (1993).  Thinking About Kids.
-Hutton.  Declaration of Interdependence.
*Jackson, P.  (1993).  The Moral Life of Schools.
-Lakoff.  Moral Politics.
-Lipset.  American Exceptionalism.
+Marzano, R. J. (2003).  What Works in Schools: Translating Research into Action.
-Mathews, David.  Is There a Public for Public Schools?
-May, William.  The Beleaguered Professions.
-Micklethwait and Wooldridge.  The Right Nation.
Molnar, A.  (1996).  Giving Kids the Business:  The Commercialization of America’s Schools.
+*Neill, A.S.  (1960, 1992).  Summerhill:  A Radical Approach to Child Rearing..
+*Peshkin, A.  (1978).  Growing Up American:  Schools and the Survival of Community.
-Posner, Richard.  Law, Pragmatism and Democracy.
-Putnam, Robert.  Bowling Alone.
-Sandel, Michael.  Democracy’s Discontent.
*Sarason, S.  (1995).  Parental Involvement and the Political Principle:  Why the Existing Governance Structure of Schools Should Be Abolished.
*Shannon, P.  (1992).  Becoming Political.
Shannon, P.  (2001).  Becoming Political, Too
-Skocpol.  Diminished Democracy.
-Sullivan, William.  Work and Integrity.
-Zakaria, Fareed.  The Future of Freedom.

Classroom Management and Motivation

+Ginsberg, M. B., & Wlodkowski, R. J. (2000).  Creating Highly Motivating Classrooms for All Students: A Schoolwide Approach to Powerful Teaching with Diverse Learners.
Glasser, W. & Dotson, K.  (1998).  Choice Theory in the Classroom.
+*Kohn, A.  (1993).  Punished by Rewards.
+Kohn, A.  (1998).  Beyond Discipline.

Diversity

+*Clark, C., & O’Donnell, J. (Eds.) (1999).  Becoming and Unbecoming White.
*Comer, J.  (1992).  Raising Black Children.
+Cornelius, C. (1999).  Iroquois Corn in a Culture-Based Curriculum: A Framework for Respectfully Teaching about Cultures.
+*Delpit, L.  (1995).  Other People’s Children:  Cultural Conflict in the Classroom.
Delpit, L.  The Skin that we Speak.
+Hooks, B.  (2000).  Where We Stand: Class Matters.
+*Howard, G. (1999).  We Can’t Teach What We Don’t Know: White Teacher, Multiracial Schools.
+Jones, T.G., & Fuller, M.L.  (2003).  Teaching Hispanic Children.
+Kozol, J.  (2005).  The Shame of the Nation:  The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America.
+*Kozol, J.  (1991).  Savage Inequalities:  Children in America’s Schools
+*Ladson-Billings, G.  (1994).  Dreamkeepers:  Successful Teacher of African American     Children. 
*McAdams, R.  (1993).  Lessons From Abroad.
+Michie, G.  (1999).  Holler If You Hear Me: The Education of a Teacher and His Students.
+*Nieto, S.  (2000).  Affirming Diversity.
+*Nieto, S.  (1999).  The Light in Their Eyes:  Creating Multicultural Learning Communities.
+O’Reilly, K.  (1995).  Nixon’s Piano:  Presidents and Racial Politics from Washington to Clinton.
*Stewart, D.  (1993).  Immigration and Education.
+*Tatum, B.  (1997).  Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria and Other Conversations About Race
+Thompson, G.  (2004).  Through Ebony Eyes:  What Teachers need to Know but are Afraid to Ask about African American Students.
+*Weatherford, J.  (1988).  Indian Givers.

Standards and Asssessment

+Kohn, A. (1999).  The Schools our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards.”
+Ohanian, S.  (1999).  One Size Fits Few:  The Folly of Educational Standards.
*Wiggins, J. & McTighe, J.  (1998).  Understanding By Design.

Inclusion

+Tomlinson, C. A. (1999).  The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners.
Winebrenner, S. & Espeland P.  (1997).  Teaching Kids with Learning Difficulties in the Regular Classroom.
*Winner, E.  (1996).  Gifted Children.

Parents & Families

+Lawrence-Lightfoot, S.  (2003).  The Essential Conversation:  What Parents and Teachers Can Learn From Each Other.
Rudney, G.L.  (2005).  Every Teacher’s Guide To Working With Parents.

Teachers

+*Ayers, W.  (1995).  To Become a Teacher:  Making A Difference In Children’s Lives.
*Kozol, J.  (1991).  On Being a Teacher.
+*Lowen, J. W. (1995).  Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong.
McCarthy, C.  (2002).  I’d Rather Teach Peace.

Technology

Jonassen, D.  (1998).  Learning with Technology: A Constructivist Perspective.
Kafai, Y. & Resnick, M.  (1996).  Constructionism in Practice: Designing, Thinking, and Learning in a Digital World.

Literacy

*Beers, K. (2002).  When Kids Can’t Read—What Teachers Can Do:  A Guide for Teachers 6-12.
Davis, R. & Braun, E.  (1997).  The Gift of Dyslexia:  Why Some of the Smartest People Can’t Read and How They Can Learn.
Dixon-Krauss, L. (ed.).  (1995).  Vygotsky in the Classroom: Mediated Literacy Instruction and Assessment.
Freedman, et.al.  (1999)  Inside City Schools:  Investigating Literacy in Multicultural Classrooms.
Heath, S.  (1983).  Ways With Words:  Language, Life, and Work in Communities and Classrooms.
Shannon, P.  (1998).  Reading Poverty.
Taylor, D.  (1998).  Family Literacy:  Young Children Learning to Read and Write.

Math

Moses, R. and Cobb, C. E.  Radical Equations:  Math Literacy and Civil Rights.

Science

+Louv, R.  (2006).  Lost Child in the Woods:  Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder.
+National Research Council.  (2005).  How Students Learn:  Science in the Classroom.