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Marianna Sidella
Eng1, ACESPRING2018
May 17, 2018

Annotated Bibliography

Malcolm X, Coming to an Awareness of Language. Readings for Revolutionary Writing,

Edited by Kirsten Ogden, Bedford/St. Martin’s, Boston, pp 252-255
Malcolm X influence as a minister and human rights activist should inspired most of the
people to speak up for their own right. He felt he had something to say about the black people
situation and decide to "battling the white man" . He struggled to find his voice and his style,
but he didn't let the circumstances and his sour stop him. He had to learn to use the most
appropriate terms and ways to communicate his thoughts and he did it from prison, he turned
his sentence into an essential passage for freedom.

Khan, Sal. “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education.” TED: Ideas Worth Spreading, March
2011,
https://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education?referrer=pl
aylist-re_imagining_school#t-1237971
Back in 2004, Sal Khan was working as hedge fund analyst in Boston and tutoring his
cousins remotely so he started uploading math tutorials on You Tube. Today, fourteen years
later Khan Academy has up to 100 million registered users from all over the world. In this
talk, Sal explains how he created Khan Academy and why, offering videos about complete
math curricula and ,today, about other subjects. He also invites teachers to put aside for a
moment the traditional method of teaching and give students video lectures to watch at home
and do exercises and homework in class, so the teachers can go around the class and help the
student, also the student can give peer review and be more interactive with each other. His
intent is to humanize the classroom using the technologies.

Emdin, Christopher. “Teach teachers how to create magic”. TED: Ideas Worth Spreading,
October 2013,
https://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_emdin_teach_teachers_how_to_create_magic/transcri
pt?referrer=playlist-talks_from_inspiring_teachers

Christopher Emdin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Science and

Technology at Teachers College, Columbia University. He focuses his attention on how can
Magic can be thought to future teacher. What is the magic he is talking about? For
Christopher magic can be found at rap shows, barbershop banter or at Sunday services.
Christopher suggest “You've got to go in there and hang out at the barbershop, you've got to
attend that black church, and you've got to view those folks that have the power to
engage and just take notes on what they do”. He started a project at his university where all
the students come in the classroom and watch rap concerts so that they can watch the way the
rappers move and talk and study the metaphors and analogies and start learning little things
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that are the keys to magic. This is how you can teach the magic and “make the classroom
come alive” (Emdin, Christopher).

Pierson, Rita. “Every Kid needs a Champion.” TED: Ideas Worth Spreading,
https://www.ted.com/talks/rita_pierson_every_kid_needs_a_champion/transcript?language=e
n

A professional educator since 1972, Rita F. Pierson taught elementary school, junior high and
special education. She was not just a teacher but she also enhanced her career as counselor. In
each of her roles, she left a special message to all the other people in her same role : the
importance of getting to know the students, show them how much they matter and support
them in their growth, even if it was modest. In the last ten years, Pierson conducted
professional development workshops and seminars , focusing on the students who and on
topics like “Helping Under-Resourced Learners”, “Meeting the Educational Needs of African
American Boys" and "Engage and Graduate your Secondary Students: Preventing Dropouts."
Rita Pierson passed away in June 2013.

Pipher, Mary. SEVEN The Psychology of Change. Writing to Change the World, Riverhead
Books, New York, 2007, pp. 89-107.
Mary Pipher is a therapist and a writer that emphasizes how important is writing in order to
connect and empathize with other human beings, so it is possible to change the way human
beings interact with one another and think about each other. She focuses on a set of criteria
that new writers can apply to their writing in order to be a “change agent,” or a writer who
composes “change writing.” Contempt, defensiveness, fear, respect, empathy, connection,
clarity, perspective, tone, timing, resistance, hope. Those are the criteria that writer should
use in order to be a change agent.

Plato. A Socratic Dialogue. Pleiad, 1926.

Socrates was one of the most important exponents of the Greek philosophy. The most
important contribution he gave consists in his method of investigation: the dialogue. It is well
known that Socrates did not leave any writing. Most of his thoughts have been reported and
summarized from his disciples, among which the Plato stands out above all. The paradoxical
foundation of Socratic thought is the "knowledge of not knowing", an ignorance understood
as the awareness of not definitive knowledge, which becomes a fundamental motive for the
desire to know. Socrates is described as a character animated by a great thirst for truth and
knowledge, which however seemed to continually escape him. He said that he had convinced
himself that he did not know, but precisely because of this to be more knowledgeable than
others.

Richard Rodriguez Achievement of Desire. Readings for Revolutionary Writing, Edited by

Kirsten Ogden, Bedford/St. Martin’s, Boston ,pp.315-321.

When Richard Rodriguez entered first grade at Sacred Heart School in Sacramento,
California, his English vocabulary consisted of barely fifty words. All his classmates were
white. He kept quiet, listening to the sounds of middle-class American speech, and feeling
alone. This didn’t stop him to study and improve his English. Rodriguez earned a degree in
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English at Stanford and one in philosophy at Columbia. He then pursued a doctorate in

English Renaissance literature at Berkeley and spent a year in London on a Fulbright
scholarship. His first book The Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez,
guides us into his journey from being a "socially disadvantaged child" to becoming a fully
assimilated American, from the Spanish-speaking world of his family to the public world of
English. The journey had few costs: his American identity was only achieved after a painful
separation from his past, his family, and his culture.

Skinner, E. A., & Belmont, M. J. (1993). Motivation in the classroom: Reciprocal effects of
teacher behaviour and student engagement across the school year. Journal of Educational
Psychology, 85(4), 571-581

The authors examined the effects of teacher’s behaviour (involvement, structure, and
autonomy support) on 144 children's (age between 8 and 10 years old) behavioural and
emotional engagement during the school year. Analyses revealed that teacher involvement
was central to children's experiences in the classroom and that teacher provision of both
autonomy support and optimal structure predicted children's motivation across the school
year. Also reciprocal effects of student motivation on teacher behaviour were found. These
suggest the importance of the student–teacher relationship.

Wagner, Joylene. “Learning Matters: The Importance of Understanding Relationships.” Los

Angeles Times, Los Angeles, 18 Sept. 2015 http://www.latimes.com/socal/glendale-news-
press/opinion/tn-gnp-learning-matters-the-importance-of-understanding-relationships-
20150917-story.html
Joylene Wagner is a musicianship teacher with the Los Angeles Children's Chorus. She also
heard Rita Pearson at TED Talk and she was intrigued by her argument “Every kid needs a
Champion” underlining the importance of the relationship between a student and his/her
teacher. Furthermore they both convene that "All learning is understanding relationships" as
George Washington Carver stated. So in this article the author extended the meaning of the
relationship among all people, places, and systems.

Nieto, Sonia. "Placing equity front and center: some thoughts on transforming teacher
education for a new century." Journal of Teacher Education, vol. 51, no. 3, 2000, p. 180+.
Biography In Context,
http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A114331474/BIC?u=pasa19871&sid=BIC&xid=d373b96
0. Accessed 16 May 2018
Sonia Nieto worked in teacher education and she noticed that teacher needs a better way to
interact with students that come from different cultural background. Teachers today need to
modify their approach , according to Lizette Roman they need to be more “patient, tolerant,
curious, creative, eager to learn, and most important, non-authoritarian with students”. So in
this article Sonia Nieto proposes three ways to make equity the core concept of school
programs: take a stand on social justice and diversity, make social justice ubiquitous in
teacher education, and promote teaching as a life-long journey of transformation.