Curriculum & Instruction 407:
Inquiry Teaching & Learning
Spring, 1996
Reading Schedule by Class Session

January 18 (Week 2):

Dewey, J. (1902). The Child and the Curriculum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

January 25 (Week 3):

Duckworth, E. (May, 1972). The Having of Wonderful Ideas. Harvard Educational Review.

Hawkins, D. (1974). Messing About in Science. The informed vision: Essays on learning and human nature. New York: Agathon.

Easley, J. (1987). A Teacher Educator's Perspective on Students' and Teachers' Schemes. Thinking: The Second International Conference. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

February 1 (Week 4):

Peterson, R. (October, 1988). Young authors. Fayerweather school student pen book on Boston Harbor. The Tab.

Wigginton, E. (February, 1989). Foxfire grows up. Harvard Educational Review, 59(1), 24-49.

February 8 (Week 5):

Kelly, E. C. (1947). Education for what is real. New York: Harper.

February 15 (Week 6):

Paley, V. G. (May, 1986). On listening to what the children say. Harvard Educational Review.

Duckwork, E. (1987). Teaching as research. In The having of wonderful ideas (pp. 122-140). New York: Teachers College Press.

February 22 (Week 7):

Easley, J. A. Jr., Zwoyer, R. E. (19xx). Teaching by Listening-Toward a New Day in Math Classes.

Goldenberg, E. P., & Feurzeig, W. (1987). Exploring language with Logo (chapter 8). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

February 29 (Week 8):

Eisner, E. (1994). On the art of teaching. The Educational Imagination.

Grumet, M. R. (Autumn, 1993). The play of meanings in the art of teaching. Theory into Practice.

May, W. T. (Autumn, 1993). Teaching as a work of art in the medium of curriculum. Theory into Practice.

March 7 (Week 9):

Paley, V. G. (1981). Wally's stories. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Ristad, E. (1982). Chapter 10. Drink Your Milk; Don't Drink Your Milk. A Soprano on Her Head. Moab, UT: Real People Press.

March 15 (Spring Break)

March 22 (Week 10):

Phillips, D. C. (October, 1995). The good, the bad, and the ugly: The many faces of constructivism. Educational Researcher.

March 29 (Week 11):

Boomer, G. (September, 1989). Literacy: The epic challenge beyond progressivism. English in Australia.

April 4 (Week 12):

Delpit, L. (1988). The silenced dialogue: Power and pedagogy in educating other people's children. Harvard Educational Review, 58(3), 280-298.

Bohannan, L. (1975). Shakespeare in the Bush. In Ternes, A. (Ed.) Arts, Indians, and little dinosaurs. New York: Serilners.

April 11 (Week 13):

Sarason. S.

April 18 (Week 14):

Drake, S. M. (October, 1991). How our team dissolved the boundaries. Educational Leadership.

Bruce, B. C., & Easley, J. (in press). Emerging communities of practice: Collaboration and communication in action research. In M. Watt (Ed.), Action research and the reform of mathematics and science education. New York: Teachers College Press.

April 25 (Week 15):

Donnan, C. S. (1988). Following our forebears' footsteps: From expedition to understanding. In V. Rogers, A. D. Roberts, & T. P. Weinland, (Eds.), Teaching social studies: Portraits from the classroom (Bulletin No. 82). Washington, DC: National Council for the Social Studies.

Westbury, I. May 2 (Week 16): Presentations; no readings.