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• Miscellaneous bookshelf
• My reads by year

Education bookshelf

These are all the books that have impacted my thinking about education for better or worse since I started teaching. I include the year I read it and titles in bold mean that I would currently recommend it. If I have written a review of it this will be linked.

I include all the books about teaching that I have read (with the exception of some from my training year), firstly as a record of my own CPD and secondly because of even those books that contain arguments and ideas that I now disagree with, I recognise that my thinking about education is still fluid, open to change and these books will still have provided me with some basis for my own reflection and development.

2018

1. What if everything you knew about education was wrong? – by David Didau – my review.
2. Cleverlands – by Lucy Crehan
3. Seven myths about education – by Daisy Christodoulou
4. Making good progress? – by DaisyChristodoulou
5. Why knowledge matters: rescuing our children from failed educational theories – by E.D. Hirsch
6. Ouroboros –  by Greg Ashman
7. What does this look like in the classroom? – by Carl Hendrick and Robin MacPherson

2017

1. Why don’t students like school? – by Daniel Willingham
2. What every teacher needs to know about psychology – by David Didau and Nick Rose
3. The battle hymn of the tiger teachers: the Michaela way – edited by Katherine Birbalsingh

2016

1. How to raise an adult – by Julie Lythcott-Haims – my review.
2. What is the point of school? – by Guy Claxton
3. Making thinking visible – by Ron Richhardt – my review.

2015

1. The brain at school: educational neuroscience in the classroom – by John Geake
2. Classroom-based research and evidence-based practice – by Keith Taber
3. Ways of learning: learning theories and learning styles in the classroom – by Alan Pritchard
4. Pedagogy of the oppressed – by Paolo Freire
5. Visible learning for teachers – by John Hattie

2014

1. Good work – by Howard Gardner, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and William Damon
2. Intelligence reframed – by Howard Gardner
3. Contemporary theories of learning – by Knud Illeris
4. Teaching as if life matters – by Christopher Uhl