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1980’s (from bibliographies distributed 1989, 1990, 1991)

Alexander, Lloyd, Taran series

Bachelard, Gaston, Poetics of Space

Barfield, Owen, Romanticism Comes of Age; Saving the Appearances; Speaker’s Meaning; Worlds Apart

Belensky, Mary et al, Women’s Ways of Knowing

Berger, John, Another Way of Telling

Bussis, A. et. al, Inquiry into Meaning: Investigation of Learning to Read

Carini, Patricia, The Art of Seeing and the Visibility of the Person; The School Lives of Seven Children

Cobb, Edith, Ecology of the Imagination in Childhood

Coles, Robert, Call of Stories; Moral Lives of Children

Froebel, F., The Education of Man

Gould, Stephen J., The Mismeasure of Man

Heidegger, Martin, Poetry, Language, Thought; What is Called Thinking

Heller, Erich, Disinherited Mind

Himley, Margaret, Shared Territory

Joyce, James, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Jung, Carl, Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious; Memories, Dreams, and Reflections

Keller, Evelyn Fox, A Feeling for the Organism

Kundera, Milan, The Art of the Novel

Lifton, Betty Jean, The King of Children

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, The Phenomenology of Perception

Nemerov, Howard, Figures of Thought; Poetry and Meaning

Paley, Vivian, Wally’s Stories

Park, Clara, The Siege

Pattison, On Literacy

Rose, Mike, Lives on the Boundary

Schactel, Ernest, Metamorphosis

Scheler, Max, The Nature of Sympathy

Vygotsky, Thought and Language

Welty, Eudora, One Writer’s Beginnings

Wickes, Frances, The Inner World of Childhood

Wilder, Laura Ingalls, the Little House series

Williams, Raymond, Key Words

1984

Whitehead, Alfred North, Modes of Thought (especially “Expression�)

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, Phenomenology of Perception (“The Body�)

Other readings referred to:

Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas

Nozick, Robert, Philosophical Explanations

Butterfield, Herbert, The Origins of Modern Science

Scheler, Max, The Nature of Sympathy

Berger, John, About Looking

Heller, Erich, The Disinherited Mind

Fussell, Paul, The Great War and Modern Memory

Nemerov, Howard, Figures of Thought

Cobb, Edith, The Ecology of Imagination in Childhood

Williams, Raymond, Keywords; The Long Revolution

Carini, Patricia F., Observation and Description: An Alternative Methodology for the Observation of Human Phenomena

Carini, Patricia F. The Art of Seeing and the Visibility of the Person

1986

Scheler, Max, The Nature of Sympathy

Paterson, Katherine, Bridge to Terabithia

Whitehead, Alfred North, Modes of Thought (“Perspective�)

1988

Welty, Eudora, One Writer’s Beginnings

Soyinka, Wole, Ake

Colette, My Mother’s House

Piaget, Jean, Six Psychological Studies; Origins of Intelligence

Gardner, Howard, Frames of Mind

Heller, Erich, The Disinherited Mind; The Artist’s Journey into the Interior

Berger, John, Another Way of Telling (“Appearances�)

1990

Berlin, Isaiah, The Crooked Timber of Humanity (“The Pursuit of the Ideal,� “The Decline of Utopian Ideas in the West�

Williams, William Carlos, “The Pure Products Go Crazy�

1991

Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki and James D, Farewell to Manzanar

Kingston, Maxine Hong, Woman Warrior

Rodriguez, Richard, Hunger of Memory

Morrison, Toni, Playing in the Dark

1992

Berlin, Isaiah, “Two Concepts of Liberty�

Havel, Vaclav, “The End of the Modern Era�

Tan, Amy, The Joy Luck Club

Gordimer, Nadine, Burger’s Daughter

Arnow, Harriet, The Dollmaker

Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Hurston, Zora Neale, Their Eyes Were Watching God

Kincaid, Jamaica, Lucy

Dorris, Michael, A Yellow Raft on Blue Water

Cisneros, Sandra, The House on Mango Street

1993

Sorkin, Michael (ed.) Variations on a Theme Park (“The World in a Shopping Mall� by Margaret Crawford; “See you in Disneyland� by Sorkin)

Morrison, Toni, Racing Power, Engendering Justice

Angelou, Maya, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Wright, Richard, Black Boy

Conway, Jill Ker, The Road from Coorain

Alvarez, Julia, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent

Butler, Robert Olin, A Good Scent from a Strange Land

mid 1990’s

Morrison, Toni, Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

Horton, Myles and Paulo Freire, We Make the Road by Walking

Salgado, Sebastiao, Workers

DuBois, W.E.B., The Souls of Black Folk

1996

Morrison, Toni, Beloved; Playing in the Dark

Kundera, Milan, Immortality; The Art of the Novel

Rukeyser, Muriel, The Life of Poetry

Baca, Jimmy Santiago, Working in the Dark

1998

Lopez, Barry, The Rediscovery of North America

Kundera, Milan, The Art of the Novel

Rich, Adrienne, An Atlas of the Difficult World

Rukeyser, Muriel, The Life of Poetry

Wills, Garry, Lincoln at Gettysburg

Lincoln, Abraham, The Gettysburg Address

Barker, Pat, Regeneration

Fussell, Paul, The Great War and Modern Memory

Morrison, Toni, Paradise

Berlin, Isaiah, “The Decline of Utopian Ideas in the West� in The Crooked Timber of Humanity

Coles, Robert, Doing Documentary Work

Williams, Raymond, “Images of Society� in The Long Revolution

1999

Barker, Pat, Regeneration

Berlin, Isaiah, “The Sense of Reality� from Studies in Ideas and their History

Perrone, Vito, Teacher with a Heart

Camus, Albert, Resistance, Rebellion, and Death

Whitehead, Alfred North, Modes of Thought

De Burgos, Julia “Song of the Simple Truth�

King, Martin Luther, Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail�

2000

Kelly, Aileen, “The Flesh of Time: Mikhail Bakhtin�

Berry, Wendell, “The Gift of Good Land�

Cobb, Edith, The Ecology of the Imagination in Childhood

Suransky, Valerie Polokow, The Erosion of Childhood

Kafka, Franz, The Castle

Hurston, Zora Neale, Their Eyes Were Watching God; Dust Tracks on the Road

Lasch, Christopher (ed), The Social Thought of Jane Addams

Gordimer, Nadine, Burger’s Daughter; Writing and Being

Rukeyser, Muriel, The Life of Poetry

Banks, Russell, Cloudsplitter

Cassirer, Ernst, Language and Myth

Abrams, David, The Spell of the Sensuous

Vicuna, Cecilia, “Palabramas� in Unraveling Words and Weaving of Water

2001

Cobb, Edith, The Ecology of Imagination in Childhood

Dewey, John, “The School and Society� in Dewey on Education

Freire, Paulo, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Behar, Ruth, The Vulnerable Observer

Achebe, Chinua, Anthills of the Savannah

Ellison, Ralph, Invisible Man

hooks, bell, where we stand: class matters

Paley, Vivian, You Can’t Say You Can’t Play

Cormier, Robert, The Chocolate War

Cole, Brock, The Goats

2002

Scarry, Elaine, On Beauty and Being Just

Anzaldua, Gloria, Borderlands

Mahfouz, Naguib, Palace Walk

Suransky, Valerie Polokow, The Erosion of Childhood

2003

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, “Eye and Mind� in The Primacy of Perception

Said, Edward, “Labyrinths of Incarnation�

Elshtain, Jean Bethke, The Jane Addams Reader; Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy

Kelley, Robin D. G., Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

Rukeyser, Muriel, The Life of Poetry

Sebald, W.G., Austerlitz

Morrison, Toni, Paradise

2004

Kelley, Robin D.G., “Beyond the ‘Real’ World or Why Black Radicals Need to Wake Up and Start Dreaming�

Sebald, W.G., Austerlitz

Morrison, Toni, Paradise

Nafisi, Azar, Reading Lolita in Tehran

Smith, Frank, The Book of Learning and Forgetting

Rukeyser, Muriel, The Life of Poetry; A Rukeyser Reader

2005

DeStiger, Todd, Reflections of a Citizen Teacher: Literacy, Democracy, and the Forgotten Students of Addison High

Haddon, Mark, the curious incident of the dog in the night-time

Grandin, Temple, “Thinking in Pictures�

Robinson, Marilynne, Gilead

Nafisi, Azar, Reading Lolita in Tehran

Said, Edward, Orientalism

Pratt, Minnie Bruce, “Identity Skin Blood Heart� from Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism

Dewey, John, “Creative Democracy – The Task Before Us� from The Later Works, Volume 14

2006

Freire, Paulo, Cultural Action for Freedom

Brown, Cynthia “Literacy in 30 Hours: Paulo Freire’s Process in Northeast Brazil� in Freire for the Classroom

Horton, Myles, The Long Haul

Robinson, Marilynne, Housekeeping

Rose, Mike, The Mind at Work

Gornick, Vivian, The Solitude of Self: Thinking about Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Scott, James C., Seeing Like a State

Franklin, John Hope, Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin