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Required Textbooks - Fall 2008

You'll find the required textbook list for the current term below.  MBS Direct, our virtual bookstore, should carry most of the listed titles. Gadsden Center students can buy and sell their used textbooks through our website - see the links to the left.
 
Course Author Book Title Edition Publisher ISBN
AEL 552 DiPaola & Hoy Principals Improving Instruction '08 Allyn & Bacon 0205491022
AEL 602 Bass, Jossey Reader in Educational Leadership 2nd Jossey Bass 0787984000
AEL 602 Deal and Peterson Shaping School Culture:  The Heart of Leadership '99 Jossey Bass 0787962430 
AEL 605   No Text      
AEL 612 Pajak Supervising Instruction:  Differentiating for Teacher Success      
AEL 619 Marshall & Gerstyl-Pepin Re-framing Educational Politics for Social Justice   Peason Education, Inc 0205371426
AEL 624   No Text      
AEL 636          
AEL 650 Hoy & Miskel Educational Administration:  Theory, Research, and Practice 8th McGraw-Hill 0073403741
AEL 664 Fullan, Michael New Meaning of Educational Change 4th Teachers College Press 0807747653
AEL 664 Alrichter and Elliot (eds) Images of Educational Change '03 Open University Press 0335201881
AEL 664 Fullan, Michael Turnaround Leadership '06 Jossey-Bass 0807749653
AEL 671          
AEL 681 Thompson Teach Yourself Ethics 2nd '07 McGraw-Hill Co 0071477993
AEL 681 Strike et al The Ethics of School Administration 3rd Teachers College Press 0807745731
AHE 601 Altbach, Berdahl, and Gumport American Higher Education and the Twenty-first Century 2nd '05 John Hopkins Press 0801880351
AHE 601 Calabrese The Elements of an Effective Dissertation and Thesis:  A Step-by-step Guide to Getting it Right the First Time '06 Rowman and Littlefield 1578863511
AHE 601 Creswell Research Design:  Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Method Approaches '08 Sage 141296556X
AHE 601 APA Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association 5th APA 1557987912
AHE 603 Boyer, Ernest L. Scholarship Reconsidered:  Priorities of the Professoriate (paperback) 1st Jossey-Bass/The Carnegie Fou 0787940690
AHE 603 Bain, Ken What the Best College Teachers Do (hardcover) 1st Harvard Univ Press 0674013255
AHE 603 Fink, L. Dee Creating Significant Learning Experiences:  An Integrated Approach to Creating College Courses (hardcover) 1st Jossey-Bass/John Wiley & Sons 0787960551
AHE 603 Angelo & Cross Classroom Assessment Techniques:  A Handbook for College Teachers (paperback) 2nd Jossey-Bass/John Wiley & Sons 1555425003
BCE 512 Corey Theory & Practice of Counseling & Psychotherapy bundled with Webtutor Toolbox for WebCT, CD for Integrative Counseling, Case Approach to Counseling, Student Manual, & DVD "The Case of Stan" 8th   0495742031
BEF 503 Tyack The One Best System '74 Harvard Univ Press 0674637828
BEF 503 Dewey The School and Society and The Child and the Curriculum '01 Dover Publications 0486419541
BEF 534 Johnson, Allan Privilege, Power, and Difference 2nd McGraw-Hill 0072874899
BEF 534 Michie, Gregory See You When We Get There:  Teaching for Change in Urban Schools '05 Teacher's College Press 0807745197
BEF 681 Thompson Teach Yourself Ethics 3rd McGraw-Hill Co 007141960
BEF 681 Strike et al The Ethics of School Administration 3rd Teachers College Press 0807745731
BER 500 Lyne, L.S. A Cross Section of Educational Research:  Journal Articles
*Instructor requires students to have this book the first meeting!
4th Pyrczak 1884585809
BER 603   No Text      
BER 631 Creswell Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design:  Choosing Among Five Traditions 2nd '07 Sage 1412916070
BER 631 Padgett The Qualitative Research Experience '04 Brooks/Cole 0534272541
BSC 695   No Text      
CAT 531   No Text      
CAT 532   No Text      
CAT 533   No Text      
CEE 525 Wallace & Louden Dilemmas of Science Teaching:  Perspectives on Problems of Practice '02 Falmber Books 0415237637
CEE 525 Ladson-Billings The Dreamkeepers:  Successful Teachers of African-American Children '94 Jossey-Bass 0787903388
CEE 525 Sunal & Wright The Impace of State and National Standards on K-12 Science Teaching '06 Information Age Pub 1593113641
CEE 525 Wellington & Osborne Language and Literacy in Science Education '01 Open University Press 0335205984
CEE 687 Hubbard, Power, Miller Living the Questions:  A Guide for Teacher-Researchers '99 Stenhouse 1571100814
CIE 680   No Text      
CSE 530 Marsh & Codding The New American High School 1999 Corwin 0803962266
CSE 565/665          
CSE 670 Hubbard, Power, Miller Living the Questions:  A Guide for Teacher-Researchers '99 Stenhouse 1571100814
EN 542 Cooper, James F The Prairie '92 Oxford Univ Press 0192837664
EN 542 Brown, William Clotel ''04 Pengiun 0142437727
EN 542 Chopin, Kate The Awakening '72 Avon 0380001450
EN 542 Frederic, Harold The Damnation of Theron Ware '02 Modern 0375760350
EN 542 Hawthorne, Twain, Crane, Melville Four Great American Classics:  The Scarlet Letter, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Red Badge of Courage, and Billy Budd '86 Bantam 0553213628
EN 542 James, Henry Daisy Miller '02 Modern 0375759662
LS 590 Cuban, Sondra Serving Immigrant Communities in the Library '07 Libraries Unlmited 1591582970
LS 590 Robbins, Louise The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown:  Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library '01 Univ of Oklahoma Press 0806133147