Education audiobooks

Children at Play - Changing the World

By: Rosario Villasana-Ruiz

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Rosario Villasana-Ruiz, an early childhood education specialist, describes how children develop and learn naturally.  She explains why we should school the child's imagination, involve all of the child's senses, provide models of rich descriptive language, and invest the time to be in relationship with children. Read more

Teacher Man

By: Frank McCourt

Narrated by: Frank McCourt

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2007 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir and Finalist for Narration by the Author

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, mega-bestselling author who wore his celebrity with extraordinary grace comes a magnificently appealing book about teaching and about how one great storyteller found his voice.

Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at... Read more

Teacher Man - Abridged

By: Frank McCourt

Narrated by: Frank McCourt

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Winner of the 2007 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir and Finalist for Narration by the Author

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, mega-bestselling author who wore his celebrity with extraordinary grace comes a magnificently appealing book about teaching and about how one great storyteller found his voice.

Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at... Read more

Teaching Ecological Imagination

By: David Orr

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In a world on the brink of ecological disaster, David Orr is hopeful that we can still turn the tide if we recognize that the people who will create the sustainable society of the future are sitting in our classrooms today. Read more

Raising a Wondrous Child

By: Dawna Markova

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Dawna Markova launched a movement to free parents from worrying about "fixing" their children's differences, and instead help their youngsters recognize the enormous value they have in the world, just as they are. It's a radical shift from our current standardized educational paradigm - and it's a joyous one. Read more

Über den Umgang unter Freunden - Abridged

By: Adolph Freiherr von Knigge

Narrated by: Anette Daugardt

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Über den Umgang unter Freunden" lautet das Kapitel aus seinem großen Werk über den Umgang mit Menschen, das hier zu hören ist. Knigge schreibt auch hier wohlmeinend, ratschlagend, und ohne besserwisserisch zu wirken, wie sich Freunde gegenseitig zu verhalten haben. "Hast Du einen treuen Freund gefunden, so bewahre ihn auch! Halte ihn in Ehren,... Read more

Vom Umgang mit Menschen - Abridged

By: Adolph Freiherr von Knigge

Narrated by: Anette Daugardt

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wohlmeinend, ratschlagend, hilfsbereit, aber nie besserwisserisch - das ist der Stil, in dem Knigge sein berühmtes Buch geschrieben hat, und deshalb macht es immer noch so viel Spaß, seinen Ausführungen zu lauschen. Dabei ist Knigge in jeder Frage sicher in der Einschätzung, und zu recht ist sein Name heute synonym mit gepflegten Umgangsformen.... Read more

The Shame of the Nation

By: Jonathan Kozol

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

“The nation needs to be confronted with the crime that we’re committing and the promises we are betraying. This is a book about betrayal of the young, who have no power to defend themselves. It is not intended to make readers comfortable.”

Over the past several years, Jonathan Kozol has visited nearly 60 public schools. Virtually everywhere, he... Read more

Just Say Yes: Improvising Your Life

By: Patricia Ryan Madson

Narrated by: Bec Kageyama

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Patricia Madson draws on the principles of improvisational theater to approach life with a willingness to pay attention to whatever life presents, and to say yes to the unexpected. Read more

The Shame of the Nation - Abridged

By: Jonathan Kozol

Narrated by: Harry Chase

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“The nation needs to be confronted with the crime that we’re committing and the promises we are betraying. This is a book about betrayal of the young, who have no power to defend themselves. It is not intended to make readers comfortable.”

Over the past several years, Jonathan Kozol has visited nearly 60 public schools. Virtually everywhere, he... Read more

A Holistic Approach to Global Warming

By: Jamie Henn & May Boeve

Narrated by: Bec Kageyama

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Jamie Henn and Mae Boeve, students at Middlebury College in Vermont, created the Road to Detroit bus tour in 2005 and brought students from all over the United States together to give voice to consumer demand for more fuel-efficient cars. Read more

Educating For Wholeness

By: David Marshak

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Marshak believes most schools have an unstated belief that only a small number of children are intelligent.  "If instead," he asserts, "we believed that every child is a gifted child in one way or another, we would organize schools very differently." Read more

García Márquez in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

García Márquez stands on the shoulders of a great Latin American literary heritage. But he is also that modern rarity, a writer with aspirations to high art who also remains hugely popular. For those who fall under his spell, his novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, is one of the richest literary dreams ever written. Its “magical realism” has... Read more

Nietzsche in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

With Friedrich Nietzsche, philosophy was dangerous not only for philosophers but for everyone. Nietzsche ultimately went mad, but his ideas presaged a collective madness that had horrific consequences in Europe in the early 1900s. Though his philosophy is more one of aphorisms and insights than a system, it is brilliant, persuasive, and... Read more

Confucius in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Confucius taught a moral wisdom that would become a predominant social force in China from the second century BCE until the mid-twentieth century. It would appear that his aim was to turn his pupils into good government officials, but his quaint humanistic platitudes, maxims, and quasi-enigmatic anecdotes made spiritual fodder for the next two... Read more

Voucher Wars

By: Clint Bolick

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In June 2002, the US Supreme Court's ruling in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris opened the door to school choice. In Voucher Wars: Waging the Legal Battle over School Choice, Clint Bolick recounts the dramatic twelve-year struggle to finally give families a choice in education. As the central figure in the legal battle over school choice, Bolick tells... Read more

Choosing a College

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Robert Morris

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This book starts you at square one: before you know what questions to ask, what colleges to read about, or what statistics to look up. Sowell pulls no punches as he candidly describes the inner and outer workings of scores of American colleges and universities, big and small. He gives equal attention to special programs, financial aid, and the... Read more

A Personal Odyssey

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is the gritty, powerful story of Thomas Sowell’s life-long education in the school of hard knocks, as the journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry. It is also the story of the dramatically changing times in which this... Read more

La chatte blanche

By: Jani Pascal

Narrated by: Jani Pascal

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Des contes qui ont traversé les continents. Les mémoires. Des contes qui sont devenus les nôtres. Ces récits de notre littérature orale qui reposaient aphones, Jani Pascal les fait revivre grâce à ses recherches minutieuses effectuées à même les fonds d'archives du Canada français. Elle redonne la parole à nos contes. Notre héritage culturel. La... Read more

Beyond A.D.D.: Getting to the Root of Brain Dysfunction

By: Bette Lamont

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The diagnosis of Attention Deficit Disorder has reached epidemic proportions. But few answers have emerged to explain why this is so, and fewer solutions do more than mask the symptoms - until now. Read more

Holistic Education for the Cultural Creative Generation

By: Eric Utne, Dee Dickinson & Ron Miller

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In three separate interviews, visionaries Eric Utne, Dee Dickinson, and Ron Miller bring news from the frontiers of innovation in education. You'll hear how breakthroughs in neurological science are reaching teachers as they design their learning plans. Read more

Teaching Connection, Compassion and Character

By: Rachael Kessler

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

As more emphasis is placed on test scores, and non-academic classes fall victim to budget cuts, students are left with little opportunity to explore the deeper issues that bring the sense of purpose that is too often lacking. Rachael Kessler has a different vision of what education can and should be about. Read more

Life's Journeys According to Mister Rogers

By: Fred Rogers

Narrated by: Lily Tomlin, Blair Brown, Richard Kind, Joanne ...

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring collection of thoughts to take with us on the paths we travel in life.

For all the roads we choose to travel, and even those we don't, Fred Rogers has an observation, a story, some insights to share. Whether you're facing graduation, a new job, a new baby, marriage, any change in your life--expected or not--the wisdom that Mister... Read more

Les petites filles modèles - Abridged

By: La comtesse de Ségur

Narrated by: Macha Grenon

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Camille et Madeleine sont deux petites filles sages qui vivent avec leur mère au château de Fleurville. Modèles de vertu, elles sont la fierté de leur maman. Lors d'une promenade, les petites filles recueillent Mme de Rosebourg et sa fille Marguerite, victimes d'un accident de voiture. Les trois enfants deviennent rapidement inséparables. Leur... Read more