What We Are Reading About Teaching and Learning

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  • Cuffaro, H. K. (1995). Experimenting with the world: John Dewey and the early childhood classroom. New York: Teachers College Press.
  • Delpit, L. (1995). Other people’s children: Cultural conflict in the classroom. New York: New Press.
  • Dewey, J. (1938). Experience and education. New York: The Macmillan Co.
  • Duckworth, E. R. (1996). “The having of wonderful ideas” and other essays on teaching and learning (2nd Ed.). New York: Teachers College Press
  • Friere, P. (1970). Pedagogy of the oppressed. New York: Herder and Herder.
  • Holt, J. C. (1967). How children learn. New York: Pitman Pub. Corp.
  • Hooks, B. (1994). Teaching to transgress: Education as the practice of freedom. New York: Routledge.
  • Kohl, H. R. (1995). Should we burn Babar? : Essays on children’s literature and the power of stories. New York: The New Press.
  • Kohn, A. (1999). The schools our children deserve: Moving beyond traditional classrooms and “tougher standards”. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
  • Kozol, J. (2007). Letters to a young teacher. New York: Crown Publishers.
  • Kress, G. (1997). Before writing: Rethinking the paths to literacy. New York: Routledge.
  • Kridel, C., & Bullough, R. V., Jr. (2007). Stories of the eight-year study: Reexamining secondary education in America. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
  • Meier, D. (2002). In schools we trust: Creating communities of learning in an era of testing and standardization. Boston: Beacon Press.
  • Nager, N., & Shapiro, E. K. (Eds.) Revisiting a progressive pedagogy: The developmental-interaction approach. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
  • Nieto, S. (2005). Why we teach. New York: Teachers College Press.
  • Ohanian, S. (1999). One size fits few: The folly of educational standards. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
  • Ramsey, P. G. (1987). Teaching and learning in a diverse world: Multicultural education for young children. New York: Teachers College Press.
  • Rose, M. (2009). Why school? : Reclaiming education for all of us. New York: The New Press.
  • Sizer, T. R. (2004). Horace’s compromise: The dilemma of the American high school. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
  • Zigler, E. F., Singer, D. G., & Bishop-Josef, Sandra J. (Eds.). (2004). Children's play: The roots of reading. Washington, DC: Zero to Three Press.

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