The University of St. Thomas

School of Education

Supportive Learning Resources
Advancing Social Justice 

 

Sample Reading List

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

When Students Have Power by Ira Shor

Theory and Resistance in Education by Henry Giroux

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of Prison by Michel Foucault

The Struggle for Pedagogies: Critical and Feminist Discourses on Regimes of Truth by Jennifer Gore

The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge by Jean-Francois Lyotard

Critical Pedagogy and Predatory Culture: Oppositional Politics in a Postmodern Era by Peter McLaren

A Pedagogy for Liberation by Ira Shor and Paulo Freire

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

Experience and Education by John Dewey

In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women?s Development by Carol Gilligan

Ideology and Curriculum by Michael Apple

Orientalism by Edward Said

Feminist Theory: From Margins to Center by Bell Hooks

What Schools Can Do: Critical Pedagogy and Practice by Kathleen Weiler and Candace Mitchell

Critical Pedagogy and Cultural Power by David Livingston

Expanding the Boundaries of Transformative Learning by Ed Sullivan and Mary O'Connor, Ed.S.