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

[Antje Petty]

Some great and important titles have been posted already, but I would also 
like to add

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
Becoming Old Stock: the Paradox of German-American Identity by Russel Kazal

Antje

At 10:30 AM 11/28/2006 -0500, Bill Howe wrote:
>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.)
> >
> >
> >
> > ********
> > Paul C. Gorski
> > EdChange: http://www.EdChange.org <http://www.edchange.org/>
> > Multicultural Pavilion: http://www.EdChange.org/multicultural
> > Social Justice Store: http://www.cafepress.com/edchange
> > Multicultural Poster Store: http://www.EdChange.org/posters
> > SoJust Civil Rights History: http://www.SoJust.net 
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> >
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