_these books are significant
Updated: Jul 22, 2018
Books are my shelter, just like museums. Since you landed here, I bet you love books, too. Here is a curated list of books that changed the way I am thinking and ultimately influenced my work. If you wish to contribute in this list, be brave and comment down below your idea, I would love to hear about your experience.
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Museum education
Art Museum Education, Facilitating Gallery Experiences, by Olga Hubard.
Progressive Museum Practice, John Dewey and Democracy, by George Hein.
Teaching in the Art Museum: Interpretation as Experience, by Burnham, Rika, Kai-Kee, Elliott.
The participatory museum, by Nina Simon
Embodied education
DRAMA for Learning: Dorothy Heathcote's Mantle of the Expert Approach to Education (Dimensions of Drama), by Gavin Bolton & Dorothy Heathcote.
Dorothy Heathcote: Drama as a Learning Medium Drama as a Learning Medium, by J. Wagner, Betty Jane
The Dancing Dialogue: Using the Communicative Power of Movement with Young Children Using the Communicative Power of Movement with Young Children, by Suzi Tortora.
The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience MIT Press Cognitive Science and Human Experience, by Francisco J. Varela, Evan T. Thompson, Eleanor Rosch.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, van der Kolk M.D., Bessel.
Art Education
Visual thinking strategies, Using Art to Deepen Learning Across School Disciplines, by Philip Yenawine.
The Arts and the Creation of Mind, by Elliot W Eisner.
Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series, John Berger.
Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers, by Gray, Dave, Brown, Sunni, Macanufo, James, Gray, Dave/ Brown, Sunni/ Macanufo, James
Visual Thinking, Rudolf Arnheim
Art as experience, by John Dewey
Pedagogy
Your Self-Confident Baby: How to Encourage Your Child's Natural Abilities -- From the Very Start (Books), by Magda Gerber, Allison Johnson
Children's Stories in Play Therapy, by Ann Cattanach
Differentiation and the Brain: How Neuroscience Supports the Learner-Friendly Classroom, by David A. Sousa, Carol Ann Tomlinson
The Hundrend Languages of Children, The Reggio Emilia Experiences in Tranformation, Carolyn Edwards, Lella Gardini, George Forman
Mindful Games, Sharing Mindfulness and Meditation With Children, Teens and Families, by Susan Kaiser Greenland
SciArt
Species of Spaces and Other, by Georges Perec.
Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light, by Leonard Shlain.
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