readings on education, 11:00 PM MT, 12/24

Readings on Education – December 24, 2009

A Child's Work: The Importance of Fantasy Play - Vivian Gussin Paley
Aims of Education, The - Alfred North Whitehead
American Education 1607-1980 (3 vols.) - Lawrence A. Cremin
Art of Teaching, The - Gilbert Highet
Art of Teaching, The - Jay Parini
Black Tom – Arnold of Rugby - Terence Copley
Boy Life on the Prairie - Hamlin Garland
Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter - Seth Lerer
Closing of the American Mind, The – Alan Bloom
Craft of Teaching, The - Kenneth E. Eble
Democracy and Education - John Dewey
Educated Mind, The - Kieran Egan
English Reader, The – Diane Ravitch (also The Death and Live of the Great American School System - in press)
Essential 55, The - Ron Clark
Far Away and Long Ago - W. H. Hudson (also, Idle Days in
Patagonia)
Harry Vernon at Prep - Franc Smith
Historical Roots of Elementary Mathematics, The - Bunt, Jones and Bedient
Honor: A History - James Bowman
I'm the Teacher, You're the Student - Patrick Allitt
In Plato's Cave - Alvin Kernan
In the Early World - Elwyn S. Richardson
Language & Human Nature - Mark Halpern
Lowering of Higher Education in American, The – Jackson Toby
Lore and Language of Schoolchildren, The – Iona and Peter Opie
Math Through the Ages: A Gentle History for Teachers and Others, Expanded Edition - Berlinghoff and Gouvea
Nebel’s Elementary Education: Creating a Tapestry of Learning - Bernard J. Nebel
Paideia (3 vols.) - Werner Wilhelm Jaeger
Paradoxes - R. M. Sainsbury
Prelude, The (all versions – try the Norton edition) - William Wordsworth (also, the Immortality Ode)
Quest for Certainty, The - John Dewey
Teaching Tips - Wilbert J. McKeachie & Graham Gibbs
Theory of Education in the United States - Alfred J. Nock
Vexations of A. J. Wentworth, B.A., The - Humphrey Francis Ellis
What Does It All Mean? - Thomas Nagel
What the Best College Teachers Do - Ken Bain