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Book Reflections (Education)

Book Reflections (Education)

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Book Reflections

These book reflections often begin with a question, a moment of discomfort, or a spark of wonder. They have helped me explore how I think about parenting, relational teaching, progressive pedagogy, nature and place, aesthetic environments, and the teacher’s inner life.

Somewhere in the middle, dissonance often arises—ideas that don’t fit easily, that ask something more of us. Rather than book reviews, these are my personal reflections or essays that invite questions slower reading, deeper noticing, and a clearer sense of what we’re practicing and why. I hope this list may be of use to you in exploring your own inner world and thinking about parenting, teaching and the world of early childhood.

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FAVORITE
REVIEW Ethics and Politics in Early Childhood Education, Gunilla Dahlberg & Peter Moss currently reading
Published
REVIEW Visible Learners: Promoting Reggio-Inspired Approaches in All Schools
Published
REVIEW Making Learning Visible by Project Zero & Reggio Children
Published
Reflection on Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature, Jon Young
Published
ESSENTIAL READ
BOOK Free to Learn, by Peter Gray
Published
Reflections on “”Place Based Education”
Reading Again
ESSENTIAL READ
Reflections on “Wild Play, David Sobel”
Reading Again
ESSENTIAL READ
BOOK Loris Malaguzzi and the Schools of Reggio Emilia: A selection of his writings and speeches, 1945-1993 edited by multiple authors
Reading Again
BOOK The Role of the Pedagogista in Reggio Emilia: Voices and Ideas for a Dialectic Educational Experience by Stefania Giamminuti, Paola Cagliari, Claudia Giudici, Paola Strozzi
Reading Again
BOOK Nature Play at Home, Striniste
Coming up Soon...
ESSENTIAL READ
Reflections on “David Hawkins and the Pond Study, Kellogg”
Coming up Soon...
BOOK Neoliberalism and Early Childhood Education: Reclaiming Childhood from Market Logic
Coming up Soon...
BOOK The Role of the Pedagogista in Reggio Emilia by Stefania Giamminuti
Coming up Soon...
BOOK The Diary of Laura by Reggio Children
Coming up Soon...
BOOK The Hundred Languages of Children by Carolyn Edwards, Lella Gandini, George Forman
Coming up Soon...
ESSENTIAL READ
Reflections on “Doing Foucault in Early Childhood Studies: Applying Post-Structural Ideas”
Not Read Yet
BOOK Reconfiguring the Natures of Childhood by Affrica Taylor
Not Read Yet
BOOK Young Children Becoming Curriculum: Deleuze, Te Whāriki and curricular understandings by Marg Sellers
Not Read Yet
BOOK Transformative Change and Real Utopias in Early Childhood Education by Peter Moss
Not Read Yet
BOOK Listening to Children: Being and becoming by Bronwyn Davies
Not Read Yet
BOOK The Posthuman Child: Educational transformation through philosophy with picturebooks by Karin Murris
Not Read Yet
BOOK Constructions of Neuroscience in Early Childhood Education by Michel Vandenbroeck et al.(Have Not Read Yet)
Not Read Yet
BOOK Alternative Narratives in Early Childhood: An Introduction for Students and Practitioners by Peter Moss
Not Read Yet
BOOK 'Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible': A Memoir of Work in Childcare and Education by Helen Penn (Have Not Read Yet)
Not Read Yet
BOOK Young Children's Community Building in Action: Embodied, Emplaced and Relational Citizenship by Louise Gwenneth Phillips
Not Read Yet
BOOK Revisiting Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Issues and Challenges in Early Childhood Education edited by Michel Vandenbroeck
Not Read Yet
BOOK Rethinking Environmental Education in a Climate Change Era: Weather Learning in Early Childhood by Tonya Rooney, Mindy Blaise (Have Not Read Yet)
Not Read Yet
BOOK The Decommodification of Early Childhood Education and Care: Resisting Neoliberalism by Michel Vandenbroeck, Joanne Lehrer, Linda Mitchell (Have Not Read Yet)
Not Read Yet
BOOK Becoming Pedagogue: Bergson and the Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics of Early Childhood Education and Care by Liselott Olsson
Not Read Yet
BOOK Iris Murdoch and Early Childhood Education: Enhancing Attention and Moral Vision in Pedagogy by Andrea Delaune
Not Read Yet
BOOK Indications: Preschools and Infant-Toddler Centres of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia by Reggio Children
Not Read Yet

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Reflection on Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature, Jon YoungReflection on Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature,  Jon Young
BOOK Free to Learn, by Peter GrayBOOK Free to Learn, by Peter Gray
REVIEW Ethics and Politics in Early Childhood Education, Gunilla Dahlberg & Peter Moss currently readingREVIEW
REVIEW Visible Learners: Promoting Reggio-Inspired Approaches in All SchoolsREVIEW Visible Learners: Promoting Reggio-Inspired Approaches in All Schools
REVIEW Making Learning Visible by Project Zero & Reggio ChildrenREVIEW Making Learning Visible by Project Zero & Reggio Children

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Reflections on “”Place Based Education”Reflections on “”Place Based Education”
Reflections on “Wild Play, David Sobel”Reflections on “Wild Play, David Sobel”
BOOK Loris Malaguzzi and the Schools of Reggio Emilia: A selection of his writings and speeches, 1945-1993 edited by multiple authorsBOOK Loris Malaguzzi and the Schools of Reggio Emilia: A selection of his writings and speeches, 1945-1993
BOOK The Role of the Pedagogista in Reggio Emilia: Voices and Ideas for a Dialectic Educational Experience by Stefania Giamminuti, Paola Cagliari, Claudia Giudici, Paola Strozzi BOOK The Role of the Pedagogista in Reggio Emilia: Voices and Ideas for a Dialectic Educational Experience
BOOK Nature Play at Home, StrinisteBOOK Nature Play at Home, Striniste
Reflections on “David Hawkins and the Pond Study, Kellogg”Reflections on “David Hawkins and the Pond Study, Kellogg”
BOOK Neoliberalism and Early Childhood Education: Reclaiming Childhood from Market Logic BOOK Neoliberalism and Early Childhood Education: Reclaiming Childhood from Market Logic
BOOK The Role of the Pedagogista in Reggio Emilia by Stefania GiamminutiBOOK
BOOK The Diary of Laura by Reggio ChildrenBOOK The Diary of Laura by Reggio Children
BOOK The Hundred Languages of Children by Carolyn Edwards, Lella Gandini, George FormanBOOK The Hundred Languages of Children by Carolyn Edwards, Lella Gandini, George Forman

Have Not Read Yet

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BOOK Iris Murdoch and Early Childhood Education: Enhancing Attention and Moral Vision in Pedagogy by Andrea Delaune BOOK Iris Murdoch and Early Childhood Education: Enhancing Attention and Moral Vision in Pedagogy
BOOK Becoming Pedagogue: Bergson and the Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics of Early Childhood Education and Care by Liselott OlssonBOOK Becoming Pedagogue: Bergson and the Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics of Early Childhood Education and Care
BOOK Revisiting Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Issues and Challenges in Early Childhood Education edited by Michel VandenbroeckBOOK Revisiting Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Issues and Challenges in Early Childhood Education

I'm drawn to this book for its exploration of how Freire’s ideas on oppression, power, and dialogue intersect with early childhood education today.

BOOK Constructions of Neuroscience in Early Childhood Education by Michel Vandenbroeck et al.(Have Not Read Yet)BOOK Constructions of Neuroscience in Early Childhood Education
BOOK The Posthuman Child: Educational transformation through philosophy with picturebooks by Karin MurrisBOOK The Posthuman Child: Educational transformation through philosophy with picturebooks
BOOK Listening to Children: Being and becoming by Bronwyn DaviesBOOK Listening to Children: Being and becoming
BOOK Transformative Change and Real Utopias in Early Childhood Education by Peter MossBOOK Transformative Change and Real Utopias in Early Childhood Education
BOOK Young Children Becoming Curriculum: Deleuze, Te Whāriki and curricular understandings
BOOK Reconfiguring the Natures of Childhood by Affrica TaylorBOOK Reconfiguring the Natures of Childhood
Reflections on “Doing Foucault in Early Childhood Studies: Applying Post-Structural Ideas”Reflections on “