Suggested Readings on Teaching and Learning

Readings on Teaching and Learning - Julie E. Dodd
Mass Communication Teaching
University of Florida, Gainesville


Bain, Ken (2004). What the Best College Teachers Do. Boston: Harvard University Press.

Bligh, Donald A. (2000). What’s the Use of Lecutres? San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

Bloom, Allan (1987). The Closing of the American Mind. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Bramer, Jennifer S. (1996). Succeeding in College with Attention Deficit Disorders: Issues and Strategies for Students, Counselors and Educators. Plantation, Fla.: Specialty Press, Inc.

Bruner, Jerome (1996). The Culture of Education. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Bruner, Jerome (1996). The Process of Education. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University.

Brunner, Cornelia and Tally, William (1999). The New Media Literacy Handbook: An Educator’s Guide to Bringing New Media into the Classroom. New York: Anchor Books/Doubleday.

Clark, Roy Peter and Fry, Don (2003). Coaching Writers: Editors and Reporters Working Together across Media Platforms, 2nd edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s.

Conney, William, Cross, Charles, and Trunk, Barry (1993). From Plato to Piaget: The Greatest Educational Theorists from Across the Centuries and Around the World. New York: University Press of America.

Curzan, Anne and Damour, Lisa (2000). First Day to Final Grade: A Graduate student’s Guide to Teaching, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Davis, Barbara Gross (1993). Tools for Teaching. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

Dewey, John (1976). Experience and Education. New York: Collier Books.

Dickson, Tom (2000). Mass Media Education in Transition: Preparing for the 21st Century. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.

Estell, Doug, Satchwell, Michele L. & Wright, Patricia S. (1990). Reading Lists for College-Bound Students: The Books Most Recommended by America’s Top Colleges. New York: ARCO.

Farrar, Ronald T. (1988). Peterson’s College 101: Making the Most of Your Freshman Year. Princeton, N.J.: Peterson’s Guides.

Fisch, Linc. (1996). The Chalk Dust Collection: Thoughts and Reflections on Teaching in Colleges and Universities. Stillwater, Okla.: New Forums Press, Inc.

Gagne, Robert M. (1977). The Conditions of Learning. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Gardner, Howard (1999). Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century. New York: Basic Books.

Glasser, William (1969). Schools without Failure. New York: Harper & Row.

Goodlad, John I. (1979). What Schools Are For. Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation.

Highet, Gilbert (1977). The Art of Teaching. New York: Vintage Books.

Huba, Mary E. and Freed, Jann E. (2000). Learner-Centered Assessment on College Campuses: Shifting the Focus from Teaching to Learning. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Karabell, Zachary (1998). What’s College For? The Struggle to Define American Higher Education. New York: Basic Books.

Light, Richard J. (2001). Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Press.

Lowman, Joseph (1995). Mastering the Techniques of Teaching. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

Katz, Ricard N. and Associates (1999). Dancing with the Devil: Information Technology and the New Competition in Higher Education. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

Matthews, Anne (1997). Bright College Years; Inside the American Campus Today. New York: Simon & Schuster.

McKeachie, Wilbert J. & Svinicki, Marilla (2006). McKeachie’s Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers. 12th edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.

McGlynn, Angela Provitera (2001). Successful Beginnings for College Teaching: Engaging Your Students from the First Day. Madison, Wisconsin: Atwood Publishing.

Moore, Gary S., Winograd, Kathryn, and Lange, Dan (2001). You Can Teach Online: Building a Creative learning Environment. New York: McGraw Hill.

Owen, David (1999). None of the Above: The Truth Behind the SATs. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Papert, Seymour (1993). The Children’s Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer. BasicBooks.

Palloff, Rena M. and Pratt, Keith (1999). Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace: Effective Strategies for the Online Classroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

Postman, Neil (1995). The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques ( 1964). Emile, Julie and Other Writings. Woodbury, New York: Barron’s Educational Series, Inc.

Sacks, Peter (1996). Generation X Goes to College: An Eye-Opening Account of Teaching in Postmodern America. Chicago: Open Court.

Sarasin, Lynne Celli (1999). Learning Style Perspectives Impact in the Classroom. Madison, Wisconsin: Atwood Publishing.

Selditch, Dianne, ed. (1995). My First Year as a Journalist: Real-World Stories from America’s newspaper and Magazine Journalists. New York: Walker and Company.

Sizer, Theodore R. (1993). Horace’s Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Sperber, Murray (2000). Beer and Circus: How Big-time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education. New York: Henry Holt and Company.

Stanley, Christine A., and Porter, M. Erin, eds. (2002). Engaging Large Classes: Strategies and Techniques for College Faculty. Boston, Massachusetts: Anker Publishing Company, Inc.

Stephenson, Fred (2001). Extraordinary Teachers: The Essence of Excellent Teaching. Kansas City, Missouri: Andres McMeel Publishing.

Stoll, Clifford (1999). High Tech Heretic: Why Computers Don’t Belong in the Classroom and Other Reflections by a Computer Contrarian. New York: Doubleday.

Tatum, Beverly Daniel (1997). why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race. Basic Books.

Toth, Emily (1997). Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia. University of Pennsylvania Press.

Upcraft, Lee M., Gardner, John N. and Associates (1989). The Freshman Year Experience: Helping Students Survive and Succeed in College. Jossey-Bass Publishers.

Weimer, Maryellen (1993). Improving Your Classroom Teaching. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage Publications, Inc.

Wigginton, Eliot (1985). Sometimes a Shining Moment: The Foxfire Experience -- Twenty Years Teaching in a High School Classroom. Anchor Books.

Updated August, 2005.
Please e-mail me any resources that you would like to add to a list of useful teaching/learning readings. jdodd@jou.ufl.edu