SUGGESTED READING LIST FOR PARENTS

There are many book available in our office to parents interested in learning more about the progressive pedagogy of education.  Below is a small sampling, which you are welcome to borrow from us or purchase on your own.

  1. Piaget for Early Education - Constance Kamii and Rheta Devries - booklet

  2. Play - Catherine Garvey - Harvard University Press, 1984

  3. The Having of Wonderful Ideas and other Essays on Teaching and  Learning  - Eleanor Duckworth - Teachers College Press, 1987

  4. The Hurried Child - David Elkind - Addison-Wesley Pub. co

  5. Schools where Children Learn - Joseph Featherstone

  6. Magical Child - Joseph Chilton Pearce

  7. Jefferson's Children - Leon Botstein

  8. You Can't Say - You Can't Play - Vivian Gussin Palsy

  9. Multiple Intelligences - Howard Gardner

  10. The Children's Machine - Seymour Papert

  11. Our Children are Watching - Susan Collins

  12. The Child's Discovery of the Mind  -  Janet W. Astington