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
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
Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage
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
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
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

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo FreireA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnExcellent Sheep by William DeresiewiczManufacturing Consent by Edward S. HermanDemocracy and Education by John Dewey
Great Books on Education
177 books — 102 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
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

Well into my teaching career, I learned that good and bad play are usually a matter of having a script that works or one that needs to be rewritten. Once you begin to depend on storytelling and story acting, you start looking at your classrooms as theater. The children are constantly imagining characters and plots and, when they have a chance, with each other, acting out little stories. You can look at the children and yourself as actors. "Well, this hasn't worked. We'd better think of a better ...more
Gillian Dowley McNamee, The High-Performing Preschool: Story Acting in Head Start Classrooms

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

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