50 Professional Texts that Influence My Thinking: An Eclectic Set

Dreaming of Kurt Schwitters (M.A. Reilly, 2011)

An eclectic set of professional texts  that I have read that influence my thinking. Curious as to which books you would include in a list. 

1. Albers, Joseph. (2006). Interaction of Color. New haven, CT: Yale University Press.
2. Alexander, Christopher; Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein. (1977). A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction.  London: Oxford University Press.
3. Arnheim, Rudolf. (2004). Visual Thinking: Thirty-fifth Anniversary. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 
4. Bachelard, Gaston. (1958/1994). The Poetics of Space. Maria Jolas, translator. Boston: Beacon Press.
5. Bakhtin, M.M. (1981). The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. Michael Holquist, editor. Vadim Liapunov, translator. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
6. Bakhtin, M.M. (1986). Speech Genres and Other Late Essays. Caryl Emerson & Michael Holquist, editors. Vern W. McGee, translator. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
7. Bang, Molly. (2000). Picture This: How Pictures Work. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books.
8. Barthes, Roland. (2010). Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. New York: Hill and Wang.
9. Bateson, Mary Catherine. (1995). Peripheral Visions: Learning Along the Way. New York: HarperCollins.
10. Benjamin, Walter. (1969).  Illuminations: Essays and Reflections. Schocken.
11. Berger, John. (1995). Another Way of Telling. New York: Vintage.
12. Berger, Ron. (2003). The Ethics of Excellence: Building a Culture of Craftsmanship with Students. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
13. Bhabha, Homi K. (2004). The Location of Culture. London: Routledge.
14. Brookfield, Stephen & Steven Presskill. (2005). Discussion as a Way of Teaching: Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms, 2nd Ed. San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass.
15. Bruner, Jerome. (1986). Actual Minds: Possible Worlds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
16. Butler, Judith. (2005). Giving an Account of Oneself. New York: Fordham University Press.
17. Deleuze, Gilles & Felox Guattari. (1987). A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
18. Deleuze, Gilles & Claire Parnet. (2002).  Dialogues, Second Ed. New York: Columbia University Press.
19. Dewey, John. (2005). Art as Experience. New York: Perigee Trade.
20. Eisner, Elliott. (2004). The Arts and the Creation of Mind. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
21. Elbow, Peter. (1973/1998). Writing without Teachers: 25th Anniversary Edition. New York: Oxford University Press.
22. Freire, Paulo. (2000). Pedagogy of the Oppressed. 30th Anniversary Edition. Myra Bergman Ramos, translator. New York: Continuum.
23. Gee, James. (2011). Social Linguistics and Literacies: Ideology in Discourse. London: Routledge.
24. Gonzalez, Norma, Luis Moll, and Cathy Amanti (Eds).(2005).  Funds of Knowledge: Theorizing Practices in Households and Classrooms. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
25. Greene, Maxine. (2000). Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
26. Greene, Maxine. (1988). The Dialectic of Freedom. New York: Teachers College Press.
27. Grumet, Madeleine. (1988). Bitter Milk: Women and Teaching. Amherst, MA: The University of Massachusetts Press.
28. Hayles, N. Catherine, (2012). How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 
29. Heath, Shirley Brice. (1983). Ways with Words: Language, Life and Work in Communities and Classrooms. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.
30. Henry Jenkins, Henry, Ravi Purushotma, Margaret Weigel, Katie Clinton, Alice J. Robison (2009). Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning).  Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
31. hooks, bell. (2003). Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope. London: Routledge.
32. Huizinga, Johan. (1971). Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture. Boston, MA Beacon Press.
33. Iser, W. (1974). The implied reader: Patterns of communication in prose fiction from Bunyan to Beckett. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
34. Ito, Mizuko, Heather A. Horst, Megan Finn, Arthur Law, Annie Manion, Sarai Mitnick, David Schlossberg and Sarita Yardi. (2009). Hanging Out, Messing Around and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 
35. Latour, Bruno. (2007). Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Netwok-Theory. Oxford.
36. Lefebvre, Henri. (19920. The Production of Space. London: Wiley-Blackwell.
37. Newkirk, Thomas, (2011). The Art of Slow Reading: Six Time Honored Practices for Engagement. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
38. Pinar, William. (2011). What is Curriculum Theory? 2nd Edition. London: Routledge.
39. Rogoff, Barbara. (1991). Apprenticeship in Thinking: Cognitive Development in Social Context. London: Oxford University Press.
40. Rosenblatt, Louise.  (1978/1994). The Reader, The Text, and the Poem: Transactional Theory of the Literary Work. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.
41. Soja, Edward. (1997/2011). Postmodern geographies: The reassertion of space in critical social theory. New York: Verso.
42. Sumara, Dennis. (1996). Private Readings in Public: Schooling the Literary Imagination. New York: Peter Lang.
43. Sutton-Smith, Brian. (2001). The Ambiguity of Play. Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press.
44. Tharp, Roland & Rolland Gallimore. (1988). Rousing Minds to Life: Teaching, Learning & Schooling in Social Context. Cambridge University Press
45. Thomas, Doug  & John Seely Brown. (2011). A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the imagination for a World of Constant Change. CreateSpace.
46. Vinz, Ruth. (1996). Composing a Teaching Life. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
47. Vygotsky, Lev. (1986). Thought and Language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
48. Weinberger, David. (2012). Too Big To Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts are Everywhere, and The Smartest Person in the Room is the Room. New York: Basic Books.
49. Weschler, Lawrence. (2009). Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees. University of California Press.
50. Wheatley, Margaret J. (2002). Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Kohler.
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