Recommended Reading List

 

Non-Coercive Parenting

  • “How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk” by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
  • “Positive Discipline” by Jane Nelsen
  • “Positive Discipline” by Jane Nelsen
  • “Unconditional Parenting” by Alfie Kohn
  • “Raising our Children, Raising Ourselves” by Naomi Aldort
  • “Between Parent and Child” by Haim Gannot

Multicultural Education

  • “Raising Black Children” by James Comer and Alvin Poussaint
  • “Childhood: A Multicultural View” by Melvin Konner
  • “Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education” by Sonia Nieto
  • “We Can’t Teach What We Don’t Know – White Teachers, Multiracial Schools” by Gary Howard
  • “Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” by Beverly Daniel Tatum

Developmental Education

  • “The Hurried Child” by David Elkind
  • “The First Five Years of Life: The Child From Five to Ten” by Arnold Gesell
  • “Endangered Minds: Why Our Children Can’t Think and What We Can Do About It” by Jane Healy
  • “Magical Child” by Joseph Chilton Pearce
  • “Understanding Piaget” by Mary Pulaski

Multiple Intelligences Education

  • “Seven Ways of Knowing: Teaching for Multiples Intelligences” by David Lazar
  • “Seven Pathways of Learning: Teaching Students and Parents about Multiple Intelligences” by David Lazar

Media and Screen Time

  • “The Elephant in the Living Room” by Dimitri Christakis
  • “Look Both Ways” by Linda Criddle
  • “Me, MySpace and I: Parenting the Net Generation,” by Larry Rosen
  • “Born To Buy: The Commercialized Child” by Juliet Schor
  • ”The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less” by Barry Schwartz

Education For Character

  • “The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories” by William Bennett
  • “Why Johnny Can’t Tell Right from Wrong” by William Kirkpatrick
  • “Books That Build Character: A Guide to Teaching Your Child Moral Values” by William Kirkpatrick, Gregory Wolfe, and Suzanne Wolfe
  • “Raising Good Children” by Thomas Lickona
  • “Teachable Virtues: Practical Ways to Pass on Lessons of Virtues and Character to Your Children” by Barbara C. Unell and Jerry L. Wyckoff
  • “Hold Onto Your Kids – Why Parents Matter” by Gordon Neufeld

Schools and Curriculum

  • “Whole Language: Getting Started, Moving Forward” by Linda Crafton
  • “Learning Together and Alone: Cooperative, Competitive, and Individualistic Learning” by David Johnson and Roger Johnson
  • “In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing” by Deborah Meier
  • “Schools that Work: America’s Most Innovative Public Education Programs” by George H. Wood
  • “What Are Schools For? Holistic Education in American Culture” by Ronald Miller
  • “Experience and Education” by John Dewey
  • “Schools that Work” by George Wood

 

updated 10/2008