Education Reading List

Parent Note (Up)	education

In order to create a reading list on education, I simply googled a few simple phrases that I hoped would lead to some useful results. I also reached out to one or two people whom I trust are far more knowledgable than myself in this specific space. I don't believe that this is necessarily a comprehensive list or a list of the must read books in education. However, it should be a good base in it's entirety. As I read through this and keep adding to it, I hope that I can make it a much more useful list for other people who want to start reading about education.

Videos

An introductory video in the space of education is:
schooling the world

Papers

My interest in education is particularly focused on curriculum and pedagogy. So, I googled something along the lines of "how to develop curriculum" or "best pedagogy". I have just listed out some of the first articles and papers that I found. I hope to improve this list as I get deeper into the topic. I have also added a blog article of a professor of mine, and a home schooling system that a friend mentioned. Like I said, this isn't a well curated base to begin. I just believe that I will be at this for long enough for my exact starting point not to matter as much as the fact that I have started. Over and above this, a few friends advised that I start off by reading the national education policy 2020 and the Pratham annual report on education.

Bachelor's Degree in Education

After getting a quick read on education from a fairly randomised set of papers, I figured I should next bring some structure to what I learn. The B.Ed syllabus seemed like a good place to start. I assume that this is a good starting point because this is what teachers across India are expected to learn, and this should therefore at least give me an understanding of the current system.

To this end, I plan on reading the following.

syllabus for b.ed programme
B.Ed. Tutor 1st Semester - C.G. Prasad (HC-1 to HC-6)
B.Ed. Tutor 2nd Semester - C.G. Prasad (HC-7 to HC-8)
B.Ed. Tutor 3rd Semester - C.G. Prasad (HC-9)
B.Ed. Tutor 4th Semester - C.G. Prasad (HC-10 to HC-12)

I began reading the above books. I was interested enough in what I saw in the B.Ed syllabus, as outlined by NCERT. However, as I read through the books I didn't feel like I was really learning anything useful towards my goals. It's possible that the on ground training component is super integral as a part of the B.Ed programme. It's also possible that I picked up the wrong set of books.
In any case, I have abandoned (at least for now) the idea of reading through the B.Ed syllabus.

Open Ended Search

From what I have read, I have been able to fill out the structure that I laid out on the education page. I now intend to try to break things down through first principles and google to refine my understanding. The hope is that a series of articles and papers might help me form a top level understanding of education, rather than a specific book series.
I will of course also read a bunch of books on education along the way, and hope to get some interesting ideas outside of my own restructed thinking.
I plan on putting these ideas into the structure from earlier, and publishing a version of this as a book. The hope is that this target can help drive me towards forming some improved understanding of the field of education in my own mind. And if this book is interesting enough for others to read, that's a big bonus.

List of Books

In order to compile this list, I simply googled "best books on education". I followed 3 lists, and had a look at the top 50 books on each list. I was fascinated to find that there was almost no overlap across these lists. In my mind this means that education is a very broad space, and very few people look at it the same way. It also means that there is a lot which has changed over time, and very few people have a similar view of how to approach education. I have specially marked the books which have been repeated multiple times.

A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching and Assessing - Lorin Anderson & David Krathwol
All Must Have Prizes - Melanie Phillips
Ancient Indian Education - Radha Kumud Mukherjee
Antonio Gramsci - Conservative Schooling for Radical Politics - Harold Entwistle
An Experiment in Education - Sybil Marshall
Audacious Education Purposes - Fernando Reimers
Autobiography - John Stuart Mill
A University Education - David Willetts
Between Past and Future - Hannah Arendt
Bringing Knowledge Back In : Michael FD Young
Children’s Minds - Margaret Donaldson
Creating a Data-Informed Culture in Community Colleges - Brad Phillip & Jordan Horowitz
Creating Space for Democracy - Nicholas Longo & Timothy Shaffer
Creative Schools - Ken Robinson
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain - Zaretta Lynn Hammond
Culture and Anarchy - Mathew Arnold
Democracy and Education - John Dewey x2
Deschooling Society - Ivan Illich x2
Design Thinking for School Leaders - Alyssa Gallagher & Kami Thordarson
Does Education Matter - Alison Wolf
Does Education Matter - Brian Simon
Dumbing Us Down - John Taylor
Educated - Tara Westover x2
Educating Esme - Esme Raji Codell
Education, Society and Human Nature - Anthony O’Hear
Education Through Art - Herbert Read
Emile on Education - Jean-Jaques Rousseau
Ethics and Human Nature - Richard Stanley Peters
Excellent Sheep - William Deresiewicz
Experience and Education - John Dewey
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood and the Rest of Y’all - Christopher Emdin
Foundations of Education - Allan Ornstein, Daniel Levine, Gerry Gutek & David Vocke
Freedom to Learn - Carl Rogers
Free to Learn - Peter O Gray
Future of Indian Education System - Narendra Jadhav
Giving Teaching Back to the Teachers - Robin Barrow
Handbook on Measurement, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education - Charles Secolsky & Brian Denison
History of Indian Education System - YK Singh
Health & Physical Education for Elementary Classroom Teachers - Retta Evans & Sandra Sims
High School Snapshot - Linda M Teahen
How Children Succeed - Paul Tough
how children fail - John C Holt x2
how children learn - John C Holt
How to Improve the Talents of Children - PK Aryq
How to Read a Book - Mortimer J Adler
How to Run a College - Brian Mitchell & Joseph King
How We Learn - Benedict Carey
Issues in Indian Education - ML Dhawan
I am Malala - Malala Yousafzai
Knowledge and Control - Michael FD Young
Knowledge and the Curriculum - Paul H Hirst
Landmarks in the History of Modern Indian Education - JC Aggarwal
Learning Beyond the Classroom - Tom Bentley
Learning Centers in the 21st Century - Michael Frizell, David Reedy & Laura Sanders
Learning to Labour - Paul E Willis
Learning transformed - Eric Scheninger & Thomas Murray
Lies My Teacher Told Me - James W Loewen
Make It Stick - Peter C Brown
Meno - Plato
Mindset : The New Psychology of Success - Carol S Dweck
Official Knowledge - Michael W Apple
On Education - Bertrand Russel
Other People’s Children - Lisa D Delpit x2
Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Frerie x2
Protagoras - Plato
Punished by Rewards - Alfie Kohn
Pushout - Monique W Morris
Quiet - Susan Cain
Readicide - Kelly Gallagher
Reclaiming Childhood - Helene Guldberg
Reign of Error - Diane Ravitch
Research Methods in Education - Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion & Keith Morrison
Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture - Pierre Bourdieu & Jean-Claude Passeron
Savage Inequalities - Jonathan Kozol
Schooling in Capitalist America - Samuel Bowles & Herbert Gintis
Schools that Learn - Peter Senge
School Choice - David Garcia
Some Thoughts Concerning Education - John Locke
Special Education - James Kauffman, Daniel Hallahan, Paige Pullen & Jeanmarie Badar
Summerhill : A Radical Approach to Child Rearing - Alexander Sutherland Neil
Take Control of the Noisy Class - Rob Plevin
Teaching as a Subversive Activity - Neil Postman & Charles Weingartner
Teaching in the Digital Age for Preschool & Kindergarten - Brian Puerling & Rick Fernandes
Teaching to Transgress - Bell Hooks
Teach Like a Champion - Doug Lemov
Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire - Rafe Esquith
The Aims of Education - Alfred North Whitehead
The Analytics Revolution in Higher Education - Jonathan Gagliardi, Amelia Parnell, Julia Carpenter-Hubin & Randy L Swing
The Book Whisperer - Donalyn Miller
The Case Against Education - Bryan Caplan
The Courage to Teach - Parker J Palmer
The Closing of the American Mind - Alan Bloom
The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education - Kathryn Ecclestone & Dennis Hayes
The Death & Life of the Great American School System - Dianne Ravitch
The Death of Character - James Davison Hunter
The Element - Ken Robinson
The End of Education - Neil Postman x2
The First Days of School - Harry K Wong
The Home and the School - JWB Douglas
The Idea of a University - John Henry Newman
The Language of Education - Israel Scheffler
The One World Schoolhouse - Salman Khan x2
The Process of Education - Jerome Bruner
The Read-Aloud Handbook - Jim Trelease
The Republic - Plato
The Rise of Women in Higher Education - Gary A Berg
The Role of the Teacher - Eric Hoyle
The Schools We Need and Why We Don’t Have Them - E Hirsch Junior
The Shame of the Nation - Jonathan Kozol
The Smartest Kids in the World - Amanda Ripley
The Study of Education - JW Tibble
The Teacher Wars - Dana Goldstein
The Voice of Liberal Learning - Michael Oakeshott
The Well Trained Mind - Susan Wise Bauer
The Well Educated Mind - Susan Wise Bauer
Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson
Thought and Language - Lev Vygotsky
Tinker Taylor - Nelle Eddie
Tools of the Mind - Elena Bodrova & Deborah Leong
Transformational 21st Century Education - Jennifer Johnston-Jones & Pam Herkner-Chasse
Translanguaging for Emerging Bilinguals - Danling Fu, Xenia Hadjioannou, Xiaodi Zhou & Celia Genishi
Unconscious Bias in Schools - Tracey Benson, Sarah Fiarman & Glenn Singleton
Understanding Education Research - Gary Shank, Janice Pringle & Launcelot Brown
Wasted : Why Education Isn’t Educating - Frank Furedi
Weapons of Mass Instruction - John Taylor Gatto
We Want to Do More than Survive - Bettina L Love
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria - Beverly Daniel Tatum
Why Don’t Students Like School - Daniel T Willingham
World Music Pedagogy Volumes 1-7 - William J Coppola
Your Child Can Think Like a Genius - Bernadette Tynan