The classrooms all young children need lessons in teaching from Vivian Paley /

• Main Author: Cooper, Patricia M.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
• Subjects: Paley, Vivian Gussin, > 1929-; Early childhood education > Philosophy.; Play.; Storytelling.; Fantasy in children.; EDUCATION > Preschool & Kindergarten.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: ebrary; View fulltext via EzAccess; MyiLibrary

Teacher and author Vivian Paley is highly regarded by parents, educators, and other professionals for her original insights into such seemingly everyday issues as play, story, gender, and how young children think. She is also recognized for exposing racism and exclusion in the early childhood classr...

Table of Contents:

• Prologue: An "N of 1"
• Introduction: Why interpret the clear?
• Early literacy, play, and a teaching philosophy
• Fantasy play and young children's search for meaning
• Storytelling and story acting : meaning extended
• Teaching as a moral act, classrooms as democratic spaces
• Race, pedagogy, and the search for fairness
• Fairness extended : superheroes, helicopters, and the unchosen
• Epilogue: The classrooms young children need
• an "N of many"
• Appendix A: Guide to implementation of Paley's storytelling curriculum
• Appendix B: Sample stories
• Appendix C: Sample transcript of child dictation
• Appendix D: Becoming a teacher of stories.