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	Progressive Education Suggested Readings

Classics of Progressive Education:

De Lima, Agnes. Our Enemy the Child. New York: 1926.

Dewey, John. Art as Experience. New York: 1934

Dewey, John. Democracy and Education. New York: Free Press,
originally published 1916

Dewey, John. Experience and Education. New York: Collier,
originally published 1938

Dewey, John. Schools of Tomorrow. New York: Dalton, 1915.

Dewey, John. The School and Society. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, originally published 1900

Kilpatrick, William H. The Educational Frontier. New York: 1933.

Rugg, Harold and Shumaker, Ann. The Child-Centered School.
New York: 1926

About the Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School:

Cohen, Sol. Progressives and Urban School Reform: The Public Education Association of New York City, 1895-1954. New York: Teachers College, 1964.

De Lima, Agnes. The Little Red School House. New York: Macmillan, 1942.

Irwin, Elisabeth, and Louis Marks. Fitting the School to the Child. New York: Macmillan, 1926.

The History of Progressive Education:

Aiken, W.M. The Story of the Eight-Year Study. New York: Harpers, 1942.

Antler, Joyce. Lucy Sprague Mitchell. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.

Cremin, Lawrence. Transformation of the School: Progressivism in American Education 1876-1957. New York: Knopf, 1961.

Jervis, Kathe and Montag, Carol. Progressive Education for the 1990’s: Transforming Practice. New York: Teachers College Press, 1991.

Sadovnik, Alan R. and Susan F. Semel, eds. Founding Mothers: Women Educational Leaders during the Progressive Era. New York: Palgrave, 2002

Sadovnik, Alan R. and Susan F. Semel, eds. “Schools of tomorrow,” Schools of Today: What Happened to Progressive Education. New York: P. Lang, 1999.

Diversity, Social Justice, Multi-Culturalism:

Apple, Michael. Ideology and Curriculum. Boston: Routledge, 1979

Official Knowledge: Democratic Education in a Conservative Age. Boston: Routledge, 2000.

Barnes, Douglas. From Community to Curriculum. Penguin, 1976.

Beane, James A. Affect in the Curriculum: Toward Democracy, Dignity, and Diversity. New York: Teachers College Press, 1990.

Delpit, Lisa. Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom.
New York: New Press, 1996.

Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum, 2000.

Gilligan, Carol. In a Different Voice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982.

Gilligan, C and Brown, L.M. Meeting at the Crossroads: Women’s Psychology and Girl’s Development. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.

Kozol, Jonathan. Savage Inequalities. New York: Crown, Kuhn, Thomas, 1991.

Shor, Ira. Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for Social Change. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Tatum, Beverly Daniel. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race. New York: Basic Books, 1997.

Progressive Theory and Practice:

Beane, James. Curriculum Integration: Designing the Core of Democratic Education. New York: Teachers College Press, 1998.

Covello, Leonard. The Heart is a Teacher. New York: McGraw Hill, 1958.

Cuffaro, Harriet. Experimenting with the World: John Dewey and the Early Childhood Classroom. New York: Teachers College Press, 1995.

Duckworth, Eleanor. “The Having of Wonderful Ideas” and other essays on teaching and learning. 1987

Gardner, Howard. Disciplined Mind: Beyond Facts and Standardized Tests, the K-12 Education That Every Child Deserves. Penguin, 2000.

Gardner, Howard. Multiple Intelligences. Basic Books, 1993.

Gould, Stephen Jay. The Mismeasure of Man. New York: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., 1981.

Greene, Maxine. The Dialectic of Freedom. New York: Teachers College Press, 1988.

Kleibard, Herbert. The Struggle for the American Curriculum 1893-1958. Routledge: 1995.

Martin, Jane Roland. Cultural Miseducation: In Search of a Democratic Solution. New York: Teachers College Press, 2002.

Meier, Deborah. In Schools We Trust. Boston: Beacon Press, 2002.

Meier, Deborah. The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons from America from a Small School in Harlem. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998.

Meier, Deborah. Will Standards Save Public Education?
Boston: Beacon Press, 2000.

Noddings, Nel. Educating Moral People: A Caring Alternative to Character Education. New York: Teachers College Press, 2002.

Sizer, Theodore. Horace’s Compromise. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984.

Sizer, Theodore. Horace’s School: Redesigning the American High School. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996.

Tyack, David, and Larry Cuban. Tinkering Toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.

Wagner, Tony. How Schools Change. Boston: Beacon Press, 1994.