Books

📚 Education & Learning Reading List

📖 The Future of Learning & Society

• Hernando De Soto - The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age (1997) 📖 Amazon

• Kevin Carey - The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere (2015) 📖 Amazon | 🎧 Audible

• James Surowiecki - The Wisdom of Crowds (2004) 📖 Amazon | 🎧 Audible

• Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee - The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (2014) 📖 Amazon | 🎧 Audible

🎓 Innovative Education & Learning Theories

• John Holt - How Children Learn (Revised Edition) (1983) 📖 Amazon | 🎧 Audible

• Gordon Neufeld & Gabor Maté - Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers (Revised Edition) (2013) 📖 Amazon | 🎧 Audible

• Peter Gray - Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life (2013) 📖 Amazon

• David Bollier - The Self-Organizing Revolution: Commoning as a Path to Liberation (2014) 📖 Amazon

• Eric Lomax - Radical Education: A Reinterpretation (1971) 📖 Limited availability; consider searching on AbeBooks or Alibris

• Seymour Papert - Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas (1980) 📖 Amazon

• Etienne Wenger - Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity (1998) 📖 Amazon

• National Research Council - How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School (2000) 📖 National Academies Press

🔥 Project-Based & 21st Century Education

• Charles Fadel - The Elements of a 21st Century Education (2015) 📖 Amazon

• John Larmer & John Mergendoller - The Power of Project-Based Learning: Helping Students Develop Important Skills (2015) 📖 Amazon

• G. M. Jackson & L. T. Scott - Innovative Higher Education: Developing the World's Next Generation of Problem-Solvers (2016) 📖 Amazon

🌍 Global Perspectives on Education

• Yong Zhao - World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students (2012) 📖 Amazon | 🎧 Not available

• Yong Zhao - Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization (2009) 📖 Amazon | 🎧 Not available

• Yong Zhao - What Works May Hurt: Side Effects in Education (2018) 📖 Amazon | 🎧 Not available

• Yong Zhao - Never Send a Human to Do a Machine's Job: Correcting the Top 5 EdTech Mistakes (2015) 📖 Amazon | 🎧 Not available

• Yong Zhao - The Tao of Education: A Path to Lifelong Learning (2021) 📖 Amazon | 🎧 Not available

🎨 Creativity & Learning

• Sir Ken Robinson - The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything (2009) 📖 Amazon | 🎧 Audible

• Sir Ken Robinson - Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education (2015) 📖 Amazon | 🎧 Audible

• Sir Ken Robinson - Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative (2001) 📖 Amazon | 🎧 Not available

• Sir Ken Robinson - You, Your Child, and School: Navigate Your Way to the Best Education (2018) 📖 Amazon | 🎧 Audible

• Sir Ken Robinson - The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything (Revised Edition) (2022) 📖 Amazon | 🎧 Audible

• Sir Ken Robinson - Find Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life (2013) 📖 Amazon | 🎧 Audible