Educational+Thought

|| [|Social Development Theory] and zone of proximal development || [|Constructivist Theory] || [|Essential]secondary schools An [|interview] with T. Sizer || Inner city, illiteracy, free, public schools || [|Cultural literacy] || [|Small Schools Movement] || * //Schoolteacher: A Sociological Study// (1975) || [|Garfield High School] || [|Cultural studies]and critical pedagogy [|The Freire Project] || [|Authentic Instruction] || [|Culturally responsive pedagogy] || Teacher Quality and Educational Equity || [|Multiple Intelligences] || [|Theory]of engaged pedagogy || [|Critic]of testing and grades || [|Curriculum Mapping] || [|Understanding By Design] || [|Differentiated Instruction] || Leading [|homeschool]advocate; Learning Without Schooling Blogger; Unschooling Consultant || [|55] essential classroom rules || [|Technology]in the classroom
 * **Educator** || **Contributions** ||
 * [|Vygotsky]
 * //Thinking and Speech// (1934)
 * //Thought and Language// (1962)
 * //Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes// (1978) ||
 * [|Jerome Bruner]
 * //Toward a Theory of Instruction// (1966)
 * //On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand// (1979)
 * //Child's Talk: Learning to Use Language// (1983)
 * //The Culture of Education// (1996) ||
 * Theodore Sizer
 * //Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School// (1984)
 * //Horace's School: Redesigning the American High School// (1992)
 * //Horace's Hope: What Works for the American High School// (1996) ||
 * [|Jonathan Kozol]
 * //[|Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools]//1991
 * //Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation (1996)//
 * //On Being a Teacher// (2009) ||
 * E.D. Hirsch
 * //Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know// (1987)
 * //The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them// (1996)
 * //The Knowledge Deficit: Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children// (2006) ||
 * [|Deborah Meier]
 * //The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a small school in Harlem// (1995)
 * //In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Standards and Testing// (2002)
 * //Playing for Keeps: Life and Learning on a Public School Playground// (2010) ||
 * [|Dan Lortie]
 * //School Principal: Managing in Public// (2009) ||
 * [|Jaime Escalante]
 * //Escalante: The Best Teacher in America// (1989) by Jay Mathews ||
 * [|Henry Giroux]
 * //Theory and Resistance in Education// (1983)
 * //Critical Theory and Educational Practice// (1983)
 * //Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning// (1988)
 * //Living Dangerously: Multiculturalism and the Politics of Culture// (1993)
 * //The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence// (1999)
 * //On Critical Pedagogy// (2011) ||
 * Fred Newmann
 * //Student Engagement and Achievement in American Secondary Schools// (1992)
 * //Authentic Achievement: Restructuring Schools for Intellectual Quality (1996)// ||
 * [|Gloria Ladson-Billings]
 * //Crossing Over to Canaan: The Journey of New Teachers in Diverse Classrooms// (//2001)//
 * //Beyond the Big House: African American Educators on Teacher Education// (2005)
 * //The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children// (2009) ||
 * [|Linda Darling-Hammond]
 * //A License to Teach: Raising Standards for Teaching// (1999)
 * //The Right to Learn: A Blueprint for Creating Schools that Work// (2001)
 * //Powerful Teacher Education: Lessons From Exemplary Programs// (2006)
 * //The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future// (2010) ||
 * Howard Gardner
 * //Frames of Mind: Theory of multiple intelligences// (1983)
 * //Multiple Intelligences: Theory in Practice// (1993)
 * //Five Minds for the Future// (2007)
 * //Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Twenty-First Century// (2011) ||
 * [|bell hooks]
 * //Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom// (1994)
 * //Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope// (2003)
 * //Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom// 2009) ||
 * Alfie Kohn
 * //No Contest: The Case Against Competition// (1992)
 * //Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes// (1999)
 * //The Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools// (2000)
 * //The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing// (2007)
 * //Feel-Bad Education: And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling// (2011) ||
 * [|Heidi Hayes Jacobs]
 * //Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum and Assessment, K-12// (1997)
 * //Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping// (2004)
 * //Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World// (2010) ||
 * [|Grant Wiggins] & [|Jay McTighe]
 * //Understanding by Design// (2000)
 * //Schooling by Design: Mission, Action, Achievement// (2007)
 * //The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High Quality Units// (2011) ||
 * [|Carol Ann Tomlinson]
 * //The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners// (1999)
 * //The Differentiated School: Making Revolutionary Changes in Teaching and Learning// (2008)
 * //Leading and Managing a Differentiated Classroom// (2010) ||
 * Pat Farenga
 * //Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling// (1981/2003)
 * //The Beginner's Guide to Homeschooling// (2000) ||
 * [|Ron Clark]
 * //The Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator's Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child// (2004)
 * //The Excellent 11: Qualities Teachers and Parents Use to Motivate, Inspire, and Educate Children// (2005)
 * //The End of Molasses Classes: Getting Our Kids Unstuck--101 Extraordinary Solutions for Parents and Teachers// (2011) ||
 * Will Richardson
 * //Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms// (2010)
 * //Personal Learning Networks: Using the Power of Connections to Transform Education// (2011)
 * //Learning on the Blog: Collected Posts for Educators and Parents// (2011) ||