The following books are a good way to begin to learn the Chicago Wisdom Project’s approach to education.
Theodore Richards
Creatively Maladjusted:
The Wisdom Education Movement Manifesto
Matthew Fox
The A.W.E. Project: Reinventing Education,
Reinventing the Human
Paulo Freire
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Richard Louv
Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children
from Nature-Deficit Disorder
Sir Ken Robinson
Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative
William Ayers
Teaching Toward Freedom:
Moral Commitment and Ethical Action
in the Classroom
R. Sambuli Mosha
The Heartbeat of Indigenous Africa:
A Study of the Chagga Educational System
Jeffrey M. Duncan-Andrade
and Ernest Morrell
The Art of Critical Pedagogy: Possibilities
Kevin K. Kumashiro
The Seduction of Common Sense:
How the Right has Framed the Debate on
America’s Schools (Teaching for Social Justice)
Kokomon Clottey
Mindful Drumming: Ancient Wisdom for
Unleashing the Human Spirit and
Building Community
Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum
Dark Mother:
African Origins and Godmothers
Neil Postman
The End of Education:
Redefining the Value of School
Bill Plotkin
Soulcraft
Walter Feinberg
Understanding Education: Toward a
Reconstruction of Educational Inquiry
Malidoma Some
Of Water and Spirit
Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry
The Universe Story
M.C. Richards
Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person
John Dewey
Experience and Education
John Taylor Gatto
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum
of Compulsory Schooling
Four Arrows (Don Trent Jacobs)
Teaching Truly: A Curriculum to Indigenize
Mainstream Education