MIT 2004-2006 Fall Booklist

The books are listed roughly in the order in which they will be used during the fall quarter. For the first three books, you are strongly encouraged to read the portions mentioned in italics before the program begins on September 28.

For all books, please be sure to read the designated edition.

Portions of some of these texts will be read during other quarters of the program as well (that is, only some parts will be read during the Fall quarter). Such texts are marked with an asterisk (*).

Additional articles and pamphlets will also be read during the quarter.

*Vavrus, Michael, Transforming the Multicultural Education of Teachers: Theory, Research, and Practice, 2002, Teachers College Press, Columbia University, ISBN 0807742600 (paper) - we will discuss chapter 7 during week 1

*Cohen, Elizabeth G. Designing Groupwork: Strategies for the Heterogeneous Classroom, 2nd Edition, 1994, Teachers College Press, Columbia University, ISBN 0807733318 (paper) -- we will be working with the ideas in chapters 1,2,6,7 during week 1

Takaki, Ronald T. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, 1994, Back Bay Books, ISBN 0316831115 (paper) -- this is a very interesting, but long book -- we will be discussing chapters 1-14 during week 2

Spring, Joel H. The American School, 1642-2004, 6th Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2004, ISBN0072875666 (paper)

*Santa Anna, Otto, Tongue-Tied: The Lives of Multilingual Children in the Public Schools, 2004, Rowan & Littlefield, ISBN 074252383

*Gauvain, Mary, & Cole, Michael (Eds.), Readings on the Development of Children, 3rd Edition, 2000, Worth Publishers, ISBN 0716751356 (paper)

Haynes, Norris M.; Ben-Avie, Michael; & Ensign, Jacque, How Social Emotional Development Add Up: Getting Results in Math and Science Education, 2003, Teachers College Press, Columbia University, ISBN 0807743062 (paper)

Duckworth, Eleanor, “The Having of Wonderful Ideas” and Other Essays on Teaching and Learning, 2nd Edition, Teachers College Press, Columbia University, 1996, ISBN: 0807735132 (paper)

Tatum, Beverly Daniel, “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” and Other Conversations About Race, Revised Edition, 1999, Basic Books, ISBN 0465091296 (paper)

Delpit, Lisa D. Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom, New Press, 1996, ISBN 1565841808 (paper)

Irons, Peter, Jim Crow’s Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision, 2002, Penguin Books, ISBN 01420.03751 (paper)

LeGuinn, Ursula K. The Telling. 2000. Ace Books. ISBN0441008631