Bibliography for Teaching and Activism

This bibliography is a compilation of resources contributed by various scholars for the Transformative Pedagagy and Scholarship Consultation of the American Academy of Religion. The resources are a sample of many works relating to teaching and activism. Inclusion in this list is not an endorsement of the work.  We encourage readers to carefully review materials to assure that they are appropriate for individual contexts.  If you have additional suggestions, please forward them to FSRinc@gmail.com.

Adams, Maurianne, Lee Anne Bell, Pat Griffin, editors. Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice: A Sourcebook. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997.

Appradurai, Arjun. "Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination," in Globalization, ed. Arjun Appradurai. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001, 1-21.

Banks, James A. “The Historical Reconstruction of Knowledge about Race: Implications for Transformative Teaching.” Educational Researcher 24. 2 (1995): 15-25.

Bernal, Dolores Delgado. "Critical Race Theory, Latino Critical Theory, and Critical Raced-Gendered Epistemologies: Recognizing Students of Color as Holders and Creators of Knowledge." Qualitative Inquiry 8.1 (2002): 105-126.

Brookfield, Stephen D. and Stephen Preskill. Discussion as a Way of Teaching: Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1999.

Bruffee, Kenneth A. Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence, and the Authority of Knowledge, 2d ed. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

Carlson, Dennis and Michael Apple, editor. Power/Knowledge/Pedagogy: The Meaning of Democratic Education in Unsettling Times. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998.

Chapdelaine, Andrea, Ana Ruiz, Carole Wells and Judith Warchalskip. Service-Learning Code of Ethics. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing, 2005.

Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2006.

Davis, Nancy J. "Teaching About Inequality: Student Resistance, Paralysis, and Rage." Teaching Sociology 20. 3 (1992): 232-238.

De Danaan, Llyn. "Center to Margin: Dynamics in a Global Classroom." Women's Studies Quarterly 18, 1-2 (1990): 135-144.

Devine, Richard, Joseph A. Favazza and F. Michael McLain. From Cloister To Commons: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Religious Studies. Washington, D.C.: American Association for Higher Education, 2002.

Ellsworth, Elizabeth. Teaching Positions: Difference, Pedagogy and the Power of Address. New York, NY: Teachers College Press, 1997.

Ellsworth, Elizabeth. "Why Doesn't This Feel Empowering? Working Through the Repressive Myths of Critical Pedagogy." Harvard Educational Review 59. 3 (1989): 297-324.

Freire, Paulo and Antonio Faundez. Learning to Question: A Pedagogy of Liberation. New York, NY: Continuum, 1989.

Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York, NY: Continuum, 1986.

Freire, Paolo. Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998.

Giroux, Henry A. Pedagogy and the Politics of Hope. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.

Goodman, Diana J. Promoting Diversity and Social Justice: Educating People form Privileged Groups. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc., 2001.

Gordon, Beverly M. "African-American Cultural Knowledge and Liberatory Education: Dilemmas, Problems, and Potentials in a Postmodern American Society" Urban Education. 27.4 4 (1993): 448-470.

Harris-Shapiro, Carol. "Service Learning and Religious Studies: An Awkward Fit?"

Council of Societies for the Study of Religion Bulletin 31. 2 (2002): 35-39.

hooks, bell. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Boston, MA: Routledge, 1994.

hooks, bell. Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope. New York, NY: Routledge, 2003.

Hyun Yi Kang, Laura. "A Contending Pedagogy: Asian American Studies as Extracurricular Praxis." Teaching Asian America: Diversity and the Problem of Community. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (1998) 123-141.

Luke, Carmen. "Feminist Pedagogy Theory: Reflections on Power and Authority". Educational Theory 46. 3 (1996): 283-302.

MacDonald, Amie A. and Susan Sanchez-Casal, eds. Twenty-First-Century Feminist Classrooms: Pedagogies of Identity and Difference. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Mayberry, Katherine J., editor. Teaching What You're Not: Identity Politics in Higher Education. New York, NY: New York University Press, 1996.

Moore, Mary Elizabeth Mullino. "Theological Education by Conversation: Particularity and Pluralism.” Theological Education 33. 1 (1996): 31-47.

Newman, Michael. Teaching Defiance. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2006.

Nussbaum, Martha. Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Oates, Karen Kashmanian and Lynn Hertrick Leavitt. Service-Learning and Learning Communities: Tools for Integration and Assessment. Washington, D.C.: Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2003.

Pipher, Mary. Writing to Change the World. New York: Riverhead Books, 2006.

Reay, Diane, Miriam E. David, and Stephen Ball. Degrees of Choice: Social Class, Race and Gender in Higher Education. Sterling, VA: Trentham Books, 2005.

Rhoads, Robert and Jeffrey Howard, editors. Academic Service Learning: A Pedagogy of Action and Reflection. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1998.

Segovia, Fernando F."Theological Education and Scholarship as Struggle: The Life of Racial/Ethnic Minorities in the Profession." Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology 2. 2 (1994): 2-25.

Shor, Ira. When Students Have Power: Negotiating Authority in a Critical Pedagogy. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Sleeter, Christine and Peter L. McLaren, editors. Multicultural Education, Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Difference. New York: State University of New York Press, 1995.

Weigert, Kathleen Maas and Robin J.Crews, editors. Teaching for Justice: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Peace Studies. Washington, D.C.: American Association for Higher Education, 1999.