7 Top psychology books like How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education) by Joshua R. Eyler

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How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education)

By: Joshua R. Eyler

4.05

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

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1. Design for How People Learn

By: Julie Dirksen

4.26

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

Products, technologies, and workplaces change so quickly today that everyone is continually learnin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • academic
  • teaching
  • psychology
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2. Pedagogy of the Oppressed

By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None

4.30

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • academic
  • education
"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

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3. Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why

By: Paul Tough

3.50

Format: 250 pages,

In How Children Succeed, Paul Tough introduced us to research showing that personal qualities like … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • psychology
  • education
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4. Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom

By: Daniel T. Willingham

4.04

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

Kids are naturally curious, but when it comes to school it seems like their minds are turned off. W… read more

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  • teaching
  • psychology
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • science
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5. Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

By: Richard J. Foster

3.77

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Richard J. Foster's Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growthis hailed by many as the… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

By: bell hooks

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between variou… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

By: Peter C. Brown , Henry L. Roediger III , Mark A. McDaniel

4.30

Format: None pages, Hardcover

To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we … read more

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  • teaching
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • science

8. Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment

By: Martin E.P. Seligman

4.60

Format: 431 pages, Paperback

A national bestseller, Authentic Happinesslaunched the revolutionary new science of Positive Psycho… read more

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9. Freedom of Simplicity: Finding Harmony in a Complex World

By: Richard J. Foster

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A revised and updated edition of the manifesto that shows how simplicity is not merely having less … read more

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10. Chemistry

By: Weike Wang

3.61

Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition

Three years into her graduate studies at a demanding Boston university, the unnamed narrator of thi… read more

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11. 80/20 Running: Run Stronger and Race Faster by Training Slower

By: Matt Fitzgerald , Robert Johnson

3.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

TRAIN EASIER TO RUN FASTER This revolutionary training method has been embraced by elite runners--w… read more

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12. The More of Less: Finding the Life You Want Under Everything You Own

By: Joshua Becker

3.00

Format: 81 pages, Hardcover

Don't Settle for More Most of us know we own too much stuff. We feel the weight and burden of our c… read more

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13. The Art of Communicating

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

2.80

Format: None pages, ebook

Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, bestselling author of Peace is Every Stepand one of the most respected … read more

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14. Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning

By: James M. Lang

4.24

Format: 128 pages, ebook

Employ cognitive theory in the classroom every day Research into how we learn has opened the door f… read more

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15. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

By: Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. The Undocumented Americans

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

4.39

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her f… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I am a one-trick pony, unable to comfort with anything other than grades."

-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans

"I respect the role of God in the lives of people who suffer, but basically only in the lives of people who suffer."

-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans

"I think every immigrant in this country knows that you can eat English and digest it so well that you shit it out, and to some people, you will still not speak English."

-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans

"There are white moms who threw stones at the little girls in Little Rock and there are white moms who wish Andres and Omar and Elias and Greta's mom will be deported too."

-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans

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17. We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

By: Bettina L. Love

4.54

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • academic
  • education
"When you understand how these theories function, when they become your North Star, you understand why progress is so hard and why survival is a constant struggle. Theories are more than just academic…"

-Bettina L. Love, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

"The four major testing companies—Pearson Education, Educational Testing Service, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and McGraw Hill—make $2 billion a year in revenue while spending $20 million a year lobbyin…"

-Bettina L. Love, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

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18. Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning

By: José Antonio Bowen

4.22

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

How AI is revolutionizing the future of learning and how educators can adapt to this new era of hum… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
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19. Do You Take This Man

By: Denise Williams

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

After butting heads, an event planner and a wedding officiant begin an enemies with benefits arrang… read more

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20. Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

By: Bettina L. Love

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bett… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
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21. All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

By: Elizabeth Comen

4.43

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The fascinating history of women’s health as it’s never been told before. For as long as medicin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"The role of women was proscribed in medicine as in society, bolstered by the stereotype of the female nurturer: Doctors cured. Nurses cared."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"A man with high testosterone, it was understood, was virile, a warrior, a stud. A woman with too much estrogen, on the other hand, was just crazy."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"The idea was just this: that there is something beautiful, and wonderfully feminine, and powerful and empowering at once, about a woman who can’t breathe."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"Between the purported sex appeal of tuberculosis and its special deadliness in young people, being afflicted with the disease—or at least, looking like you were—became associated with a certain statu…"

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

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22. Mickey Chambers Shakes It Up

By: Charish Reid

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Total opposites. Totally irresistible. Mickey Chambers is an expert at analyzing modern literat… read more

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23. Like Happiness

By: Ursula Villarreal-Moura

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a youn… read more

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24. Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning

By: Pooja K. Agarwal

4.28

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Unleash powerful teaching and the science of learning in your classroom Powerful Unleash the Scien… read more

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  • teaching
  • academic
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • science
"When we think about learning, we typically focus on getting information into students’ heads. What if, instead, we focus on getting information out of students’ heads?"

-Pooja K. Agarwal, Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning

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25. Relationship-Rich Education: How Human Connections Drive Success in College

By: Peter Felten

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A mentor, advisor, or even a friend? Making connections in college makes all the difference. What s… read more

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  • academia
  • teaching
  • academic
  • nonfiction
  • education
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26. How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education)

By: Joshua R. Eyler

4.05

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

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  • neuroscience
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27. Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education (Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability)

By: Jay Timothy Dolmage

4.37

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

Academic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the way… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy

By: Daniel T. Willingham

3.99

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this revolutionary, comprehensive, and accessible guide on how the brain learns, discover how to… read more

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  • teaching
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  • neuroscience
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  • nonfiction
  • education
  • science
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29. The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students

By: Anthony Abraham Jack

4.26

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Getting in is only half the battle. The Privileged Poor reveals how—and why—disadvantaged students … read more

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  • academic
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30. Math-ish: Finding Creativity, Diversity, and Meaning in Mathematics

By: Jo Boaler

4.33

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

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  • teaching
  • education
  • science

31. Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning, 2nd Edition

By: James M. Lang

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A freshly updated edition featuring research-based teaching techniques that faculty in any discipli… read more

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