Jay W. Brandenberger, Ph.D
Excerpts from the following will serve as assigned or background readings for the course:
Barber, B. R. (1992). An Aristocracy of Everyone: The Politics of Education and the Future of America . New York: Ballantine Books.
Barber, B. R. B., Richard M (Ed.). (1993). Education for Democracy: Citizenship, Community, Service--A Sourcebook for Students and Teachers . Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co.
Bateson, G. (1972). Steps to an Ecology of Mind. New York: Ballantine.
Bateson, G. (1979). Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity . New York: E.P. Dutton.
Belenky, M. F., Clinchy, B., Goldberger, N. R., & Tarule, J. M. (1986). Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind . New York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers.
Bizzell, P. (1992). Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousness . Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Blasi, A. (1984). Moral Identity: Its Role in Moral Functioning. In W. M. Kurtines & J. L. Gewirtz (Eds.), Morality, Moral Behavior, and Moral Development , (pp. 128-139). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Boulding, E. (1988). Building a Global Civic Culture: Education for an Interdependent World . New York: Teachers College Press.
Brooks, J. G., & Brooks, M. G. (1993). In Search of Understanding: The Case for Constructivist Classrooms.
Bruner, J. (1986). Actual Minds, Possible Worlds . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Colby, A. D., William. (1992). Some Do Care: Contemporary Lives of Moral Commitment . New York: The Free Press.
Coles, R. (1989). The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination . Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Coles, R. (1993). The Call of Service: A Witness to Idealism . Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1990). Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience . New York: Harper & Row Publishers, Inc.
Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1993). The Evolving Self: A Psychology for the Third Millennium . New York: Harper Collins Publishers.
Erikson, E. (1968). Identity: Youth and Crisis . New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Feldman, D. H., Csikszentmihalyi, M., & Gardner, H. (1994). Changing the World: A Framework for the Study of Creativity . Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers.
Freire, P. (1994). The Pedagogy of Hope. New York: Continuum.
Freire, P. (1970). The pedagogy of the oppressed. (M. B. Ramos,Trans.). New York: Continuum.
Gardner, H. (1982). Art, Mind, and Brain: A Cognitive Approach to Creativity . New York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers.
Gardner, H. (1991). The Unschooled Mind . New York: BasicBooks.
Gardner, H. (1993). Creating Minds . New York: Basic Books.
Greene, M. (1995). Releasing the Imagination. [city]: Jossey-Bass.
hooks, b. (1994). Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom . New York: Routledge.
Horton, A. I. (1989). The Highlander Folk School: A History of its Major Programs, 1932-1961 . Brooklyn: Carlson Publishing, Inc.
Johnson, M. (1993). Moral Imagination: Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Kegan, R. (1982). The Evolving Self: Problem and Process in Human Development . Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (1980). Metaphors We Live By . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Loeb, P. R. (1994). Generation at the Crossroads: Apathy and Action on the American Campus . New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Morgan, G. (1986). Images of Organization . Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.
Palmer, P. J. (1993). To Know as We are Known: Education as a Spiritual Journey : HarperSanFrancisco.
Rivage-Seul, M. K. (1987). Peace Education: Moral Imagination and the Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Harvard Educational Review, 57 (2), 153-169.
Senge, P. M. (1990). The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization . New York: Doubleday.
Sloan, D. (1983). Insight--Imagination: The Emancipation of Thought and the Modern World . Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.
Varela, F. J., Thompson, Evan, & Rosch, Eleanor. (1991). The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience . Cambridge: The MIT Press.
Wycoff, J. (1991). Mindmapping: Your Personal Guide to Exploring Creativity and Problem- Solving . New York: Berkley Publishing Group.