Pedagogy

Pedagogy is the academic discipline dealing with the theory and practice of education, i.a. the study of how best to teach.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
Teaching Community
What the Best College Teachers Do
Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching (The Jossey-bass Higher and Adult Education Series)
Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom, Updated Edition
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage
Deschooling Society
Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom
Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain by Zaretta HammondSo You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma OluoWhen the Hood Comes Off by Rob EschmannThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderWhy Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Books for Anti-Racist Teachers
65 books — 26 voters
Mister Doctor by Irène Cohen-JancaThe Book of Aron by Jim ShepardThe King of Children by Betty Jean LiftonKing Matt the First by Janusz KorczakKaytek the Wizard by Janusz Korczak
Homage to Janusz Korczak
22 books — 5 voters

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo FreireA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnExcellent Sheep by William DeresiewiczManufacturing Consent by Edward S. HermanDemocracy and Education by John Dewey
Great Books on Education
175 books — 106 voters
Discussion in the College Classroom by Jay R. HowardSeeing What Is by Jacqueline CoxtaylorWhat the Best College Teachers Do by Ken BainCreating Significant Learning Experience by L. Dee Fink
Excellent College Teaching
4 books — 2 voters

Diary of a Freedom Writer by Darrius GarrettTeaching Adolescent Writers by Kelly GallagherThe Reading Zone by Nancie AtwellQuiet by Susan CainReading, Writing, and Rising Up by Linda Christensen
Best Books for English Teachers
123 books — 48 voters
Practice Journal for Vocalists by Juanita RobinsonRise Up Singing Group Singing Songbook | Large Print Leaders ... by Peter BloodSeeing What Is by Jacqueline CoxtaylorRounds About Rounds by Jane YolenThe Singing Game by Iona Opie
Children's Voice Instruction
104 books — 6 voters

Charles Sanders Peirce
In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience. ...more
Charles S. Peirce

Well into my teaching career, I learned that good and bad play are usually a matter of having a script that works or one that needs to be rewritten. Once you begin to depend on storytelling and story acting, you start looking at your classrooms as theater. The children are constantly imagining characters and plots and, when they have a chance, with each other, acting out little stories. You can look at the children and yourself as actors. "Well, this hasn't worked. We'd better think of a better ...more
Gillian Dowley McNamee, The High-Performing Preschool: Story Acting in Head Start Classrooms

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