20 essential pedagogy books (manuals, texts and guides)

The best guides to learn how to teach.

The educational community is numerous and as active as it is decisive.. The work of teachers, educational psychologists and other specialists depends on whether or not there is a chance that a generation of young or not so young people can become well-informed people with a facility for critical thinking.

This selection of books on pedagogy may be useful in facing the challenges of education and the changes that have taken place in the world of education. and the changes that have taken place in this field in the best possible way.

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The best books for educators

Here you can see a series of works especially indicated for professionals in the field of education.

1. How to teach better (M. Ponce)

From a constructivist perspective, in this book proposals are made on ways of facilitating the emergence of autonomous learning dynamics by the students: reinforcing the students' strong points, knowing how to adequately recognize the feedback of the teaching measures, etc.

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2. Mobile Digital Devices in Education (E. Vázquez-Cano and M. Luisa Sevillano)

The emergence of mobile digital devices has arrived with force to the world of education.This book explores both the risks and opportunities associated with mobile digital devices. One of the most recommended pedagogical books to keep up to date on these issues.

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3. Pedagogy of Autonomy (P. Freire)

Paulo Freire was one of the most influential educators in history.In this book he expresses a good part of the principles that structured his work. Especially important is the way in which Freire defines good education, understood not as a transmission of knowledge to be memorized but as helping students to develop areas of interest and the ability to educate themselves on their own.

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4. Psychology and Pedagogy (J. Piaget)

One of the great classics of educational psychology by the father of developmental psychology.. A little jewel that, in spite of not being up to date on the advances in this matter (it was published in 1970), sets the theoretical bases and points to the main problems that the educational systems have been facing at the end of the XX century and beginning of the XX century.

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5. The high capacities in the inclusive school (M. Sánchez Dauder)

This book explains, in the form of a story, different proposals to make the educational needs of the students with high abilities and those of the rest of the students fit together and those of the rest of the students can fit together without breaking the harmony in the classroom.

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6. Educating with co-reason (J. M. Toro Ales)

A book whose main function is to inspire. Its pages talk about what education is, what it could be, and the way in which teachers and students inhabit the classroom. One of the most literary books on pedagogy.

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7. Pedagogy of the Oppressed (P. Freire)

Another of the great classics of this Brazilian educator. In "Pedagogy of the Oppressed", Freire proposes a critical pedagogy to facilitate social change towards a more egalitarian society.This book is a tool for students to learn to think critically and to combat the manipulation that is mistaken for acculturation.

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8. Educate Today (P. Bronson and A. Merryman)

A book based on surprising discoveries about how young people think and act.. In its pages they talk about important topics such as aggressiveness in boys and girls, when they start to lie and why they do it, sibling quarrels, etc. It can be useful for parents as well as for education professionals.

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9. Be a teacher (S. Travieso y Teniente)

This is not a theoretical book on how to get into the world of education, but a small and simple emergency manual for parents and teachers. a small and simple emergency manual for those who have started teaching in a classroom.. The subtitle of the book says it all: "what I wish I had been told when I started teaching".

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10. Creating Tomorrow's School Today (R. Gerver)

Theoretical and practical proposals and rationale for a paradigm shift in education.. One of the books for teachers aimed at the development of teaching models based on innovation.

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11. rEDUvolution (M. Acaso)

María Acaso, the author of this book, is a professor of Art Education at the Complutense University of Madrid.In this book she shows several of the challenges that teachers must face if they want to transform education into a tool for personal and social change.

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12. Pedagogy against Frankenstein (M. A. Santos Guerra)

A selection of texts about the need to understand the contents taught in class in a global way, as a system that, as a whole, provides a basis for students to be formed in all areas.The aim of this book is to provide a system that, as a whole, provides a basis for students to be educated in all areas.

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13. Cooperative learning in the classroom (J. C. Torrego and A. Negro)

Cooperative learning is one of the great untapped potentials of education systems, often totally focused on a single subject.often totally focused on an individualistic and competitive study environment. This book gathers information extracted from the theorization and implementation of cooperative learning programs over the last years.

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14. The joy of educating (J. M. Marrasé)

Keys and strategies to transform the classroom so that teaching can flow through creativity and, why not, also creativity. and, why not, also fun. One of those books for teachers where the focus is not only on the need to transmit knowledge, but also to do this in a way that those lessons mean something to the students.

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15. Recursos para educar las emociones (R. González and L. Villanueva)

In this book the main questions about emotions that should be addressed in education are posed and methods are proposed to recognize them. and proposes methods to recognize them effectively and help others to know how to manage them in the classroom.

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16. The Well-trained mind: a guide to classical education at home (Susan Wise Bauer)

A guide full of guidelines to follow to educate children at home, give them the personalized treatment they need and learn how to respond to their needs.

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17. Teaching community: a pedagogy of hope (bell hooks)

How to combine education and freedom to choose which paths of knowledge to follow and which not to take or leave for later? Here we talk about which educational strategies work and which do not, how to avoid discrimination in the classroom, how to motivate students, and how to motivate them to learn. how to motivate students... All this, from the personal and experienced point of view of the author.

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18. Pedagogy and Politics of Hope (Henry A. Giroux)

This excellent book explores the power relations that are established in the classroom and the way in which the conflicts that can occur in it are resolved and, on the other hand, how they should be resolved. Schools are microcosms in which forms of oppression, racism, etc. can be reproduced. It is necessary to understand this fact and act accordingly.

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19. Education in the 21st Century (L. Bartolomé and other authors)

An interesting proposal to learn about the challenges and possibilities that have emerged in education in recent years.

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20. Educational Equality and Cultural Difference (Henry A. Giroux)

How to promote equality and provide equitable treatment to a group of students to a group of students who come from different cultures? Faced with this apparent paradox, Henry A. Giroux offers one of his sharpest books on pedagogy.

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