Books on Education

LIST OF GOOD BOOKS ON EDUCATION 

Topics include: child psychology, self-awareness, personality development, cognitive science experiments, teaching methodologies, international comparative performance, school system reforms, emotional/social/spiritual intelligence, environmental awareness, character building, role models, etc.

• A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future – Daniel Pink
• A World Class Education: Learning from International Models – Vivien Stewart
• Albert Einstein For Kids – Jerome Pohlen
• Best Practice – S. Zemelman
• Books that Build Character – W Kilpatrick
• Books to Build On – E.D. Hirsch
• Brain Rules for Baby (from zero to five) – John Medina
• Building Moral Intelligence – M. Borba
• Character Building Activities for Kids – Darlene Mannix
• Children of the Fifth World – P.M.H. Atwater
• Children’s Book of Virtues – W. Bennett
• Conscious Evolution – Barbara Max Hubbard
• Conversations with God – Neale Donald Walsh
• Crazy Wisdom Saves the World Again – Wes “Scoop” Nisker
• Creating Innovators – Tony Wagner
• Creativity – Osho
• Eco-literate – Lisa Bennett
• Ecological Literacy – Michelle Stone
• Educating For A Sustainable Future – J.P. Cloud
• Educating For Character – Thomas Lickona
• Educating For Ecologically Sustainable Culture – C.A.Bowers
• Education and Good Life – Bertrand Russell
• Education for Life – J. Donald Walters
• Education Re-imagined – Salman Khan
• Education and the Significance of Life – J. Krishnamurti
• Emergent Curriculum – Susan Stacy
• Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
• Empowering Education – Ira Shor
• Energy – Evan Moor
• Experiments in Educational Psychology – Daniel Starch
• Experimenting with Babies – Shaun Gallagher
• Exploring Space – Ellen Moor
• Everything Kid’s Nature Book – Kathiann Kowalski
• Finnish Lessons – Pasi Sahlberg
• First Big Book of Why – National Geographic
• From Magical Child to Magical Teen – J.C. Pearce
• Great at Work – Morten Hansen
• Great Scientists – Jacqueline Forty
• Growing Up Global – Homa Tavangar
• Guerrilla Learning: Real Education With or Without Schooling – Grace Llewellyn
• Healing Our World in An Age of Aggression – Mary Ruwart
• How to Raise a Brighter Child – Joan Beck
• I Am Earth – James McDonald
• I Am Helen Keller = Brad Metzer
• I Am Kind – Suzy Capozzi
• I Am Peace – Suzan Verde
• I Am Thankful – Suzy Capozzi
• If You Had to Choose, What would you Do – Sandra Humphrey
• Improving Teacher Quality Around the World – Asia Society
• Integral Education – Shraddhalu Ranade
• Intuition – Osho
• Incentions – Lionel Bender
• It Doesn’t Take A Genius – Randal McClutheon
• Last Child in the Woods: Nature-Deficit Disorder – Richard Louv
• Learning Personalized – Allison Zmuda
• Life-Enriching Education – Marshall Rosenberg
• Magical Child – J.C. Pearce
• Magical Parent Magical Child – J.C. Pearce
• Master of Mindfulness – Laurie Grossman
• Me Me Me Epidemic – Amy McCready
• Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness – Deborah Shoeberlain
• Mistakes that Worked – Charlotte F. Jones
• Nordic Childhoods and Early Education – Einarsdottir Johanna
• One World Schoolhouse – Salman Khan
• Parent Effectiveness – Thomas Gordon
• Parenting Young Children – Don Dinkmeyer
• Parents Guide to Best Books for Children – NY Times
• Parents Guide to Gifted Children – James Webb
• Pre-school Clues – Angela Santomero
• Positive Discipline – Jane Nelson
• Project-Based Learning for Gifted Students – Todd Stanley
• Re-defining Education – Kenneth Wilson
• Rethinking Human Capital in Education (Singapore) – A. Sclafani
• Safe and Caring Schools – Katia Petersen
• Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents – Deepak Chopra
• Sharing Nature with Children – Joseph Bharat Cornell
• Simplicity Parenting – Kim John Payne
• Smartest Kids In the World – Amanda Ripley
• Talking, Listening, Teaching – Thomas Farrell
• Teach Breath Learn – Meena Srinivasan
• Teach Your Child How to Think – Edward de Bono
• Teacher Effectiveness – Thomas Gordon
• Teaching Kids to Love the earth – Marina Herman
• Teaching the Way Children Learn – Beverley Falk
• Teaching Our Children Values – Linda & Richard Eyre
• Teaching Our Children Responsibility – Linda & Richard Eyre
• Ten-Minute Life Lessons for Kids – J. Miller
• The Aims of Education – Alfred North Whitehead
• The Art of Conscious Parenting – Jeffrey Fine
• The Artful Parent – Jean Vanthule
• The Best Schools – Thomas Armstrong
• The Creative Family – Amanda Blake Soule
• The Death and life of the Great American School System – Diane Ravitch
• The Differentiated Classroom – C.A. Thomlinson
• The Fourth Way – Andrew Hargreeves
• The Growth Mindset – Annie Brook
• The Hidden Connection – Fritjof Capra
• The Innovator’s Guide – George Couros
• The Invisible Classroom – Kirke Olsen
• The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight – Thom Hartmann
• The Montessori Madness – Revor Eissler
• The Nature Connection – Clare Walker Leslie
• The Nature Fix – Florence Williams
• The Other Side – A. M. Marcus
• The Secret Spiritual World of Children – Tobin Heart
• The Teaching Gap – James Stigler
• The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach – Howard Gardner
• The One World School House: Education Re-imagined – Salman Khan
• The Whole Brain Child – Daniel Siegel
• The Wonder Child – Peter Lorie
• The World bank and Education – Steven Klees
• Time for Deeper learning – Alliance for Excellent Education
• Under Pressure: Rescuing Children From Hyper-Parenting – Carl Honore
• Unicorns Are Real: Right-Brained Leaning – Barbara M. Vitale
• Un-selfie – Michelle Borba
• Visual Leap: Guide to Visual Learning – Jesse Berg
• Wasting Minds – Ronald Wok
• What Do You Do With a Problem – Kobi Yamada
• What Do You Do With an Idea – Kobi Yamada
• What’s Wrong With Our Schools and How to Fix It – M. Zwaagstra
• Who Was Gandhi – Dana Meachen Rau
• Young Thinker – Marie Hammontree