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
Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning
How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching (The Jossey-bass Higher and Adult Education Series)
The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
Deschooling Society
Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom, Updated Edition
Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
Education for Critical Consciousness (Impacts)
Seeing What Is by Jacqueline CoxtaylorDiscussion in the College Classroom by Jay R. HowardWhat the Best College Teachers Do by Ken BainCreating Significant Learning Experience by L. Dee Fink
Excellent College Teaching
4 books — 3 voters
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo FreireSeeing What Is by Jacqueline CoxtaylorA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnExcellent Sheep by William DeresiewiczManufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman
Great Books on Education
183 books — 123 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
Seeing What Is by Jacqueline CoxtaylorMind Maps by Michael TaylorHow to Critically Read the Scientific Research Literature by Genevive BjornNine Dimensions of Scaffolding for Multilingual Learners by Maria G. DoveThe Power of the Socratic Classroom by Charles Ames Fischer
Best Books for Teaching and Learning
170 books — 47 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
124 books — 49 voters

bell hooks
“ Many professors are not interested in engaged pedagogy because they fear "burn-out." I've been teaching for almost twenty years and I am right now in my first year leave—an unpaid leave—but it's my first real time off. And I feel the lack of time off has been damaging to my teaching. There has to be a recognition of the way the failing economy is taking jobs. There has to be more of an emphasis on job-sharing and job-switching in the interest of creating an environment where engaged teaching can ...more ”
― bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

“ The Manual teaches the operation partly by being produced through the operation. ”
― John Stack IV

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