Selected Bibliography
Some texts either specifically or indirectly on the history of education and education theory (pedagogy) that have influenced me.
Beniger, James. The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986.
Berlin, James A. Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures: Refiguring College English Studies. Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition. West Lafayette, Ind.: Parlor Press, 2003.
Corbett, Edward P. J., Nancy Myers, and Gary Tate. The Writing Teacher's Sourcebook. 4th ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 0195123778 (pbk.)
Cuban, Larry. The Blackboard and the Bottom Line: Why Schools Can't Be Businesses. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004.
---. How Scholars Trumped Teachers: Change without Reform in University Curriculum, Teaching, and Research, 1890-1990. New York: Teachers College Press, 1999.
---. Oversold and Underused: Computers in the Classroom. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001.
---. Teachers and Machines: The Classroom Use of Technology since 1920. New York: Teachers College Press, 1986.
Healy, Jane M. Endangered Minds: Why Children Don't Think--and What We Can Do About It. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
Oppenheimer, Todd. The Flickering Mind: Saving Education from the False Promise of Technology. New York: Random House, 2003.
Sarason, Seymour Bernard. Educational Reform: A Self Scrutinizing Memoir. New York: Teachers College Press, 2002.
Sarason, Seymour Bernard, and Robert L. Fried. The Skeptical Visionary: A Seymour Sarason Education Reader. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003.
Sarason, Seymour Bernard, and Seymour Bernard Sarason. Revisiting "The Culture of the School and the Problem of Change". The Series on School Reform. New York: Teachers College Press, 1996.
Stoll, Clifford. Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway. 1st ed. New York: Doubleday, 1995.
Tate, Gary, Amy Rupiper, and Kurt Schick. A Guide to Composition Pedagogies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 0195125363 (pbk. acid-free paper)
Tyack, David B., and Larry Cuban. Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Some texts either specifically or indirectly on the history of education and education theory (pedagogy) that have influenced me.
Beniger, James. The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986.
Berlin, James A. Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures: Refiguring College English Studies. Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition. West Lafayette, Ind.: Parlor Press, 2003.
Corbett, Edward P. J., Nancy Myers, and Gary Tate. The Writing Teacher's Sourcebook. 4th ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 0195123778 (pbk.)
Cuban, Larry. The Blackboard and the Bottom Line: Why Schools Can't Be Businesses. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004.
---. How Scholars Trumped Teachers: Change without Reform in University Curriculum, Teaching, and Research, 1890-1990. New York: Teachers College Press, 1999.
---. Oversold and Underused: Computers in the Classroom. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001.
---. Teachers and Machines: The Classroom Use of Technology since 1920. New York: Teachers College Press, 1986.
Diels, Hermann, and Rosamond Kent Sprague. The Older Sophists: A Complete Translation By Several Hands of the Fragments in Die Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker, Edited By Diels-Kranz. With a New Edition of Antiphon and of Euthydemus. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub., 2001.
Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe. 2nd ed., Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Flynn, Daniel J. Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas. New York: Crown Forum, 2004. 1400053552 (hc)
Fuller, Steve. The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies. New York: Routledge, 2006. 0415941040 (hc) 0415941059 (pbk.) 9780415941044 9780415941051
Hanson, Victor Davis, and John Heath. Who Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom. New York: Free Press, 1998. 0684844532
Healy, Jane M. Endangered Minds: Why Children Don't Think--and What We Can Do About It. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
Kimball, Roger. Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education. 3rd ed ed., Chicago, Ill: Ivan R. Dee, 2008. 9781566637961 (pbk.) 1566637961 (pbk.)
Kramer, Rita. Ed School Follies: The Miseducation of America's Teachers. New York Toronto: Free Press Maxwell Macmillan Canada, 1991. 0029176425
Marrou, H. I. A History of Education in Antiquity. 1956. New York: Mentor Books, 1964.
Matthews, Eric. Merleau-Ponty: A Guide for the Perplexed. London ; New York, NY: Continuum International Pub. Group, 2006. 0826485316 (hc) 0826485324 (pbk.)
Miller, D. W. "Anthropologists Exploring Silicon Valley Find 'the Best, the Brightest, the Greediest'." Chronicle of Higher Education (1999): A21-22.
Morris, Van Cleve. Existentialism in Education: What it Means. New York: Harper & Row, 1966.
Murphy, James Jerome. A Short History of Writing Instruction: From Ancient Greece to Modern America. 2nd ed, Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2001. 1880393301 (pbk.)
Pernot, Laurent. Rhetoric in Antiquity. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2005. 9780813214078 (pbk.) 0813214076 (pbk.)
Piaget, Jean, and Bärbel Inhelder. The Psychology of the Child. New York,: Basic Books, 1969.
Poulakos, Takis. Speaking for the Polis: Isocrates' Rhetorical Education. Vol. Studies in rhetoric/communication Columbia, S.C: University of South Carolina Press, 1997. 1570031770 (cloth)
Prothero, Stephen R. Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--and Doesn't. 1st ed. ed., San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2007. 0060846704 (cloth) 9780060846701 (cloth)
Putnam, Robert D. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. 0684832836
Ravitch, Diane. The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn. 1st Vintage Books ed., New York: Vintage Books, 2004. 1400030641 (pbk.)
Sarason, Seymour Bernard, and Robert L. Fried. The Skeptical Visionary: A Seymour Sarason Education Reader. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003.
Sarason, Seymour Bernard, and Seymour Bernard Sarason. Revisiting "The Culture of the School and the Problem of Change". The Series on School Reform. New York: Teachers College Press, 1996.
Stoll, Clifford. Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway. 1st ed. New York: Doubleday, 1995.
Tate, Gary, Amy Rupiper, and Kurt Schick. A Guide to Composition Pedagogies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 0195125363 (pbk. acid-free paper)
Tyack, David B., and Larry Cuban. Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995.