My Friends,
As promised, the collected responses to my query about which two or three books really affected your teaching, made you a better teacher, or made you think long and hard about what we do and how/why we do it. Thanks for all your help, Harry J. Mersmann, Ph.D. San Joaquin Delta College > The book that comes to mind immediately is "The Courage to Teach" by Parker > Palmer. It falls under your category of "makes me think long and hard > about what we do and why/how we do it". > _______ > > I second the Parker Palmer suggestion. I would also include books on multiple > intelligences as well as those which address > diversity, i.e., reflecting whiteness. ___________ I just finished the pedagogy part of my dissertation so I'm up on the subject at the moment! Weimer's 2002 Learning-Centered Teaching is one of my favorites. Classics include Freire's 1970 Pedagogy of the Oppressed and hook's Teaching to Transgress. There is another called What the Best Teachers Do, but I don't have the author right here. Of course, McKeachie 1994 Teaching tips too. Here are others that I haven't read: Adams and Hamm 1994 New Designs for Teaching and Learning, Jossey-Bass Angelo and Cross 1993 Classroom assessment techniques: a handbook for college teachers, 2nd ed. Jossey-Bass Bligh 2000 what's the use of lectures? Josey-bass Campbell and Smith 1997 New Paradigms for College Teaching. Interaction Book Co. ____ I highly recommend anything by Mary Rose O'Reilly: Radical Presence : Teaching as Contemplative Practice (Paperback) The Garden at Night : Burnout and Breakdown in the Teaching Life And, bell hooks: Teaching to Transgress Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope _____ Bain, K. What the Best College Teachers Do. Leamnson, R. Thinking about Teaching and Learning. Svinicki, M. Learning and Motivation in the PostSecondary Classroom. Tagg, J. The Learning Paradigm College _________ The 1999 edited volume, The Social World of Higher Education, by Aminzade and Pescosolido is one of my favorites. It has a lot of classic articles that put pedagogy in context, as the title implies. I have enjoyed using John Bean's, Engaging Ideas: The Professors Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom in my graudate class on "Teaching Sociology." bell hooks', Teaching to Transgress is a classic "make you think hard" about why and how you teach. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Teaching Sociology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/teachsoc -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
