Pedagogy

Pedagogy is the academic discipline dealing with the theory and practice of education, i.a. the study of how best to teach.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
Teaching Community
What the Best College Teachers Do
How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching (The Jossey-bass Higher and Adult Education Series)
Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom, Updated Edition
Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage
Deschooling Society
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom
Mind Maps by Michael TaylorThe Power of the Socratic Classroom by Charles Ames FischerTeaching Thinking by Robert FisherTeaching to Transgress by bell hooksFinnish Lessons by Pasi Sahlberg
Best Books for Teaching and Learning
166 books — 30 voters
Diary of a Freedom Writer by Darrius GarrettTeaching Adolescent Writers by Kelly GallagherThe Reading Zone by Nancie AtwellQuiet by Susan CainReading, Writing, and Rising Up by Linda Christensen
Best Books for English Teachers
123 books — 48 voters

Mister Doctor by Irène Cohen-JancaThe Book of Aron by Jim ShepardThe King of Children by Betty Jean LiftonKing Matt the First by Janusz KorczakKaytek the Wizard by Janusz Korczak
Homage to Janusz Korczak
22 books — 5 voters

Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain by Zaretta HammondSo You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma OluoWhen the Hood Comes Off by Rob EschmannThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderWhy Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Books for Anti-Racist Teachers
66 books — 28 voters

bell hooks
During my college years it was tacitly assumed that we all agreed that class should not be talked about, that there would be no critique of the bourgeois class biases shaping and informing pedagogical process (as well as social etiquette) in the classroom. Although no one ever directly stated the rules that would govern our conduct, it was taught by example and reinforced by a system of rewards. As silence and obedience to authority were most rewarded...
bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

Confucius
Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius, The Sayings of Confucius

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