Our friends Nick and Chris of Human Restoration Project list some of their favorite books for progressive educators.
I think a cornerstone of progressive educationProgressive EducationA movement based on connectivism & communities of practice -the networks we create for meaningful relationships, collaboration, & learning.A pulsating web of autonomous engagement.Growing and Expanding Progressive Education w/… More is understanding the connections between happiness and contentment and learning.
Schooling should be about creating a better world not preparing people for the world that exists.
Chris McNutt of Human Restoration Project
Hope is a platform for action.
What about our education is an inoculation against white supremacy and against white nationalism?
Good digital pedagogy is accessible to everyone.
Nick Covington of Human Restoration Project
Nick
- Troublemakers : Lessons in Freedom From Young Children at School
- Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto
- The Book of Learning and Forgetting
- The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
- 17,000 Classroom Visits Can’t Be Wrong: Strategies That Engage Students, Promote Active Learning, and Boost Achievement
- What’s the Big Idea?: Question-Driven Units to Motivate Reading, Writing, and Thinking
- The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and “Tougher Standards”
- Teaching as a Subversive Activity
- Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
- Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School
- We Got This : Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be
- The Fire Next Time
- Democracy and Education
Chris
- Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
- Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed
- The End of the Rainbow: How Educating for Happiness-Not Money-Would Transform Our Schools
- Culture and Power in the Classroom: Educational Foundations for the Schooling of Bicultural Students
- Schooling as a Ritual Performance: Toward a Political Economy of Educational Symbols and Gestures
- On Critical Pedagogy
- The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and “Tougher Standards”
- Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education
- Timeless Learning: How Imagination, Observation, and Zero-Based Thinking Change Schools
- The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools
- Manufacturing Happy Citizens: How the Science and Industry of Happiness Control Our Lives
- Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences
- Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
- The Path to Purpose: Helping Our Children Find Their Calling in Life
- Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania
- We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
- We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
Source: MINDFOOD I: Top 10 Books Every Progressive Educator Should Read – YouTube
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