Bad Guys Don't Have Birthdays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bad Guys Don't Have Birthdays write by Vivian Gussin Paley. This book was released on 2013-07-26. Bad Guys Don't Have Birthdays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bad guys are not allowed to have birthdays, pick blueberries, or disturb the baby. So say the four-year-olds who announce life's risks and dangers as they play out the school year in Vivian Paley's classroom. Their play is filled with warnings. They invent chaos in order to show that everything is under control. They portray fear to prove that it can be conquered. No theme is too large or too small for their intense scrutiny. Fantasy play is their ever dependable pathway to knowledge and certainty. " It . . . takes a special teacher to value the young child's communications sufficiently, enter into a meaningful dialogue with the youngster, and thereby stimulate more productivity without overwhelming the child with her own ideas. Vivian Paley is such a teacher."—Maria W. Piers, in the American Journal of Education "[Mrs. Paley's books] should be required reading wherever children are growing. Mrs. Paley does not presume to understand preschool children, or to theorize. Her strength lies equally in knowing that she does not know and in trying to learn. When she cannot help children—because she can neither anticipate nor follow their thinking—she strives not to hinder them. She avoids the arrogance of adult to small child; of teacher to student; or writer to reader."—Penelope Leach, author of Your Baby & Child in the New York Times Book Review "[Paley's] stories and interpretation argue for a new type of early childhood education . . . a form of teaching that builds upon the considerable knowledge children already have and grapple with daily in fantasy play."—Alex Raskin, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Through the 'intuitive language' of fantasy play, Paley believes, children express their deepest concerns. They act out different roles and invent imaginative scenarios to better understand the real world. Fantasy play helps them cope with uncomfortable feelings. . . . In fantasy, any device may be used to draw safe boundaries."—Ruth J. Moss, Psychology Today
Children in Play, Story, and School
Children in Play, Story, and School - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Children in Play, Story, and School write by Artin G?nc?. This book was released on 2001-07-19. Children in Play, Story, and School available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Imaginative play and story telling occupy key roles in children's psychological development and socialization. Bringing together leading contributors, this volume explores what play and story mean to young children, and how these vital aspects of development can best be supported in child care and educational settings. Vital connections are drawn between children's activities, their interpersonal relationships, and their emerging cognitive and affective capacities. Topics covered include promoting social play in the classroom, storytelling and literacy development, and the influences of early caregiving experiences on attachment and learning. Theoretical and methodological issues in these areas of research are also addressed, as well as social policy implications. The book is inspired by the work of Greta G. Fein, the pioneering teacher, researcher, and child care policymaker, who has contributed an integrative concluding chapter.
Power & Voice in Research with Children
Power & Voice in Research with Children - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Power & Voice in Research with Children write by Beth Blue Swadener. This book was released on 2005. Power & Voice in Research with Children available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume critically examines issues of power and voice in research with children. Chapters focus on the relationship between researchers and children and explore how to more adequately represent the complexities, multiple perspectives, and understandings that emerge when the research process more fully includes children and youth. Contributors explore issues of imposition and power that are inherent in traditional research and even more problematic with children. Authors document how children's voices can guide us in learning about research methodologies, theories, and praxis, as well as about issues of race, identity, class, linguistic diversity and gender within larger postcolonial contexts and research traditions.
In Mrs. Tully's Room
In Mrs. Tully's Room - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Mrs. Tully's Room write by Vivian Gussin Paley. This book was released on 2009-07-01. In Mrs. Tully's Room available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Mrs. Tully's Room makes a quiet but powerful case for the pedagogical skill and psychological insight that childcare providers—so often underpaid and undervalued—can bring to their work. It also emphasizes how warm, quasi-familial, even mentoring relationships can develop between childcare providers and their preschool families.
Boys and Girls
Boys and Girls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Boys and Girls write by Vivian Gussin Paley. This book was released on 2014-04-22. Boys and Girls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With the publication of Boys and Girls in 1984, Vivian Gussin Paley took readers inside a kindergarten classroom to show them how boys and girls play—and how, by playing and fantasizing in different ways, they work through complicated notions of gender roles and identity. The children’s own conversations, stories, playacting, and scuffles are interwoven with Paley’s observations and accounts of her vain attempts to alter their stereotyped play. Thirty years later, the superheroes and princesses are still here, but their doll corners and block areas are fast disappearing from our kindergartens. This new edition of Paley’s classic book reignites issues that are more important than ever for a new generation of students, parents, and teachers.
