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TLTE New Researchers Guide : Seminal Titles

A resource guide for new researchers enrolled in TLTE courses

Titles that Ph.D. Students in Education Should Know

Official Knowledge: Democratic Education in a Conservative Age by Michael W. Apple
Love LC89 .A815 2000
Recommended by Prof. Pederson
Teacher by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Love LC3501.M3 A8 1980x
Recommended by Prof. Wessels
The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America’s Public Schools by David C. Berliner & Bruce J. Biddle
Love LA217.2 .B46 1995
Recommended by Prof. Lewis
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement by David Brooks
Love HQ801 .B76 2011
Recommended by Prof. David Brooks (not the same David Brooks who wrote the book)
The Culture of Education by Jerome Bruner
Love LB1051 .B736 1996
Recommended by Prof. Swidler
Narrative Inquiry: Experience and Story in Qualitative Research by D. Jean Clandinin, F. Michael Connelly
Love LB1028 .C55 2000
Recommended by Prof. Chan
E-Learning and the Science of Instruction: Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers of Multimedia Learning by Ruth Colvin Clark and Richard E. Mayer
Love HF1106 .C55 2003 - Ebook here
Recommended by Prof. Steckelberg
The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future by Linda Darling-Hammond
Love LC213 .D37 2010
Recommended by Prof. Wunder
Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom by Lisa Delpit
Love LB3013 .D45 1995
Recommended by Prof. Wilson
Democracy and Education by John Dewey
CYT LB875 .D35 1961x - Ebook here
Recommended by Prof. Emeritus Garcia
The Educational Imagination: On the Design and Evaluation of School Programs by Elliot W. Eisner
Love LB1570 .E4254 2002
Recommended by Prof. McGowan
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
Love LB880.F73 P4313 2015
Recommended by Prof. Emeritus Garcia
Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning by Henry A. Giroux
Love LA217 .G57 1988
Recommended by Prof. Pederson
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
CYT BF637.S8 G533 2008
Recommended by Prof. Brooks
Teaching and Learning in a Multilingual School: Choices, Risks, and Dilemmas by Tara Goldstein
Love LC3734.3.T67 G65 2003
Recommended by Prof. Reeves
Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement by John A.C. Hattie
Love LB1060 .H388 2009
Recommended by Prof. Harnisch
Ethical Visions of Education: Philosophies in Practice edited by David T. Hansen
Love LB41 .E777 2007
Recommended by Prof. Harnisch
Life in Classrooms by Philip W. Jackson
Love LB1032 .J3
Recommended by Prof. McGowan
Everything Bad Is Good For You: How Today’s Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson
Love HM621 .J64 2005
Recommended by Prof. Trainin
The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America by Jonathan Kozol
Love LC212.62 .K69 2005
Recommended by Prof. Lewis
Getting Smart: Feminist Research and Pedagogy With/In the Postmodern by Patti Lather
Love HQ1190 .L38 1991
Recommended by Prof. Raible
English With an Accent: Language, Ideology, and Discrimination in the United States by Rosina Lippi-Green
Love PE2808.8 .L57 1997
Recommended by Prof. Catalano
Schoolteacher: A Sociological Study by Dan C. Lortie
Love LB1775 L56
Recommended by Prof. Swidler
Bringing Reading Research to Life edited by Margaret G. McKeown and Linda Kucan
CYT LB1050.6 .B75 2010
Recommended by Prof. Wilson
The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow
CYT QA273 .M63 2008
Recommended by Prof. Trainin
Designing Effective Instruction by Gary R. Morrison et al.
Love LB1028.38 .D475 2011
Recommended by Prof. Steckelberg
The Challenge to Care in Schools: An Alternative Approach to Education by Nel Noddings
Love LC311 .N57 2005
Recommended by Prof. Wunder
Happiness and Education by Nel Noddings
Love LB41 .N55 2003
Recommended by Prof. Hostetler
Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach by Martha C. Nussbaum
Love HQ1240 .N87 2000
Recommended by Prof. Hostetler
The Worldliness of a Cosmopolitan Education: Passionate Lives in Public Service by William F. Pinar
Love LC196 .P56 2009
Recommended by Prof. Macintyre Latta
An Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis in Education by Rebecca Rogers
Love LB1034 .I59 2004
Recommended by Prof. Catalano
Multilingual Education in Practice: Using Diversity as a Resource edited by Sandra R. Schecter and Jim Cummins
Love LC3734.2.O6 M85 2003
Recommended by Prof. Reeves
Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School by Theodore R. Sizer
Love LA222 .S54 1984
Recommended by Prof. Hamann
Trying to Teach in a Season of Great Untruth: Globalization, Empire and the Crises of Pedagogy by David Geoffrey Smith
Ebook
Recommended by Prof. Macintyre Latta
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Love GN380 .S65 1999
Recommended by Prof. Raible
Wheels in the Head: Educational Philosophies of Authority, Freedom, and Culture from Socrates to Human Rights, by Joel Spring
Love LB14.7 .S67 2006
Recommended by Prof. Emeritus Fowler
Preschool in Three Cultures Revisited: China, Japan, and the United States by Joseph Tobin, Yeh Hsueh, and Mayumi Karasawa
CYT LB1140.25.J3 T63 2009
Recommended by Prof. Wessels
Related video at Love DVD LB1140.25.J3 T63 2009b
Learning and Not Learning English: Latino Students in American Schools by Guadalupe Valdés
Love PE1129.S8 V26 2001
Recommended by Prof. Hamann
Why Don't Students Like School? A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for Your Classroom by Daniel T. Willingham
Love LB1060 .W5435 2009
Recommended by Prof. Emeritus Fowler

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