(Name-mce) ListServ 10 Most Important Books: Poll

[Bill Howe]

I have started recording these suggestions on the NAME web at
www.nameorg.org. I do not have affiliations for all so let me know if you
want me to add that. These are books. I apppreciate it when there is a brief
explanation of why a book was so influential.... Bill


On 11/27/06, Talitha Abramsen <TAbramsen at commcorp.org> wrote:
>
> I would like to add these ten books:
>
> Affirming Diversity/Dr. Sonia Nieto
> Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice/ Maurianne Adams, et al.
> Rethinking Our Classroom/ Rethinking Schools
> Countering the Urban Influence/Edward DeJesus
> Cultural Proficiency: A Manual for School Leaders/Randall Lindsey, Kikanza
> Nuri Robins, Raymond Terrell
> Reading, Writing and Rising Up/Linda Christensen
> Rethinking Mathematics/Eric Gutstein
> We Can't Teach What We Don't Know/Gary Howard
> Pedagogy of Hope, Paulo Friere
> Teaching for Community, bell hooks
>
>
>
>
>
> ***********************************************
> "Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.* Pema Chodron,
> When Things Fall Apart
> ***********************************************
>
> Talitha Abramsen
> Program Manager
> Center for Youth Development and Education
> Commonwealth Corporation
> Tel: (413) 582-9054 x101  Fax: (413) 582-9068
> Email: Tabramsen at commcorp.org
>
> "A Common Mission. A Wealth of Possibilities"
>
> >>> "Laliberte, Matthew Dana" <mdl at WPI.EDU> 11/27/2006 8:24 AM >>>
> I look forward to seeing the comprehensive list!
>
> In no particular order...
>
> 1. The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America's
> Public
> Schools - David Berliner & Bruce Biddle
> 2. The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African-American Children -
> Gloria Ladson-Billings
> 3. Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Freire
> 4. High Stakes Education: Inequality, Globalization, and Urban School
> Reform
> - Pauline Lipman
> 5. Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools - Jonathan Kozol
> 6. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom - bell
> hooks
> 7. Walking the Road: Race, Diversity, and Social Justice in Teacher
> Education
> - Marilyn Cochran-Smith
> 8. Becoming a Critical Educator: Defining a Classroom Identity, Designing
> a
> Critical Pedagogy - Patricia Hinchey
> 9. Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for Social Change - Ira Shor
> 10. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And
> Other
> Conversations about Race - Beverly Daniel Tatum
>
> And I'd like to plug Deborah Stone's "Policy Paradox: The Art of Political
> Decision Marking," which has enabled me time and again to frame many of
> the
> issues addressed in my list.
>
> Matt Laliberte
> Boston College
> Ph.D. Student
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: name-mce-bounces at nameorg.org [mailto:name-mce-bounces at nameorg.org]
> On
> Behalf Of Paul C.Gorski
> Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 10:12 PM
> To: mcp at edchange.org
> Cc: name-mce at nameorg.org
> Subject: (Name-mce) ListServ 10 Most Important Books: Poll
>
> Hello, friends.
>
> I'm doing a bit of a poll. It's very simple. Please send me what you
> believe
> to be the 10 (or up to 10) most important books related to equity, social
> justice, and/or multicultural education. Please send the book title and
> author name.
>
> Feel free to think outside the box. The books don't have to be about
> education explicitly and they don't even have to be non-fiction. But I'm
> hoping for books that push boundaries, that aren't, in essence, "soft,"
> celebrating diversity sorts of things.
>
> As an example, I'm listing 5 of the books that have been most
> inspirational
> to my work below.
>
> Thanks for your input,
>
> Paul
>
> 1. Borderlands: La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldua
> 2. Multicultural Education as Social Activism by Christine Sleeter
> 3. John Brown by W.E.B. DuBois
> 4. The Critical Pedagogy Reader by Antonia Darder (Ed.)
> 5. Global Critical Race Feminism: An International Reader by Adrien
> Katharine Wing (Ed.)
>
>
>
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> Paul C. Gorski
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> Multicultural Poster Store: http://www.EdChange.org/posters
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> >
>
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