Suggested Readings
Articles - Here are some articles and papers that we recommend:
Autonomy: The Aim of Education Envisioned by Piaget - Constance Kamii
From Assertive Discipline to Participatory Democracy: The Spectrum of Behavior Management Approaches - Michele Beach (Patchwork Co-Director)
To Intervene or Not To Intervene: My First Week At Patchwork - Kerry Cerelli (Patchwork Teacher)
Parents Are People, Too - Michele Beach (Patchwork Co-Director)
Books - These are some of our favorite books from our Master's Program in Educational Psychology and the Boulder Journey School intern program:
Creating Learning Communities edited by Ron Miller
Making It Up As We Go Along by Chris Mercogliano
How to Grow a School by Chris Mercogliano
Journey With Children: The Autobiography of a Teacher by Frances P. Lothrop Hawkins
Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century by Howard Gardner
How We Think by John Dewey
Tools of the mind: The Vygotskian Approach to Early Childhood Education by Elena Bodrova & Deborah J. Leong
The Child's Construction of Knowledge: Piaget for Teaching Children by George E. Forman & David S. Kuschner
Making Learning Visible: Children as Individual and Group Learners from Project Zero, Reggio Children
The Hundred Lanugages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach - Advanced Reflections edited by Carolyn Edwards, Lella Gandini & George Forman