[MCP] 10 Most Important Books: Poll

[reginameeler at bellsouth.net]

Hello Paul,
I often sit back and read, but do not "chime" in.  I am presently working on my comps/dissertation and feel that I am not as knowledgeable as the listserve.  I am the white middle class elementary teacher that had to realize she had a lot of changing to do to meet  ALL children's needs.  However, I learn and push myself to grow each day.    I am excited about reading other people's suggestions for books to read.  I will give you some titles of some books that I have read through recommendations.  Some may cause a "stir" in conversation or be "thinking out of the box" - however, all have made me think and grow as a teacher and individual.  I second many of those being mentioned in other emails such as Gay, Delpit, Kozol, Howard - which I consider a must read!!!  

1) Letters to the Next President Edited by Carl Glickman
2) Language, Culture, and Teaching by Sonia Nieto
3) White Teacher by Vivian Gussin Paley
4) Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education - Banks & Banks
5) The DreamKeepers - Gloria Ladson - Billings
6) ) A Place to Be Navajo - Teresa L. McCarty

Maybe not the top ten but great reads --
Many Children Left Behind - Meier, Kohn, Darling-Hammond, Sizer, Wood
Red Azalea by Anchee Min
Class and Schools:  Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap by Richard Rothstein (Interesting and Controversial)  
Ways With Words - Heath (Old but  instrumental in the field)  

I would really like to see other lists (I know you wanted only the top 10 - hard to do.)  In addition, if anyone has the time, I would like to have any suggestions of good articles to read.  I am in the elementary classroom all day and unable to have the opportunities to discuss what is out there. My topic is "what preservice teachers need  to be better prepared to teach all students".  Thanks, Regina 

> From: "Paul C.Gorski" <gorski at edchange.org>
> Date: 2006/11/24 Fri PM 10:12:03 EST
> To: <mcp at edchange.org>
> CC: name-mce at nameorg.org
> Subject: [MCP] 10 Most Important Books: Poll
> 
> Hello, friends.
>  
> I'm doing a bit of a poll. It's very simple. Please send me what you believe
> to be the 10 (or up to 10) most important books related to equity, social
> justice, and/or multicultural education. Please send the book title and
> author name. 
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> Feel free to think outside the box. The books don't have to be about
> education explicitly and they don't even have to be non-fiction. But I'm
> hoping for books that push boundaries, that aren't, in essence, "soft,"
> celebrating diversity sorts of things.
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> As an example, I'm listing 5 of the books that have been most inspirational
> to my work below.
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> Thanks for your input,
>  
> Paul
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> 1. Borderlands: La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldua
> 2. Multicultural Education as Social Activism by Christine Sleeter
> 3. John Brown by W.E.B. DuBois
> 4. The Critical Pedagogy Reader by Antonia Darder (Ed.)
> 5. Global Critical Race Feminism: An International Reader by Adrien
> Katharine Wing (Ed.)
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