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18 reviews
Vivian Gussin Paley

Harvard University Press, 1998

Children reading Leo Lionni's books
Paley's purpose for writing this book consists of helping to open our minds to the insights of children. She implies in her writing that we, as adults, can learn from children. Paley wrote about events that took place in her classroom during her last year of teaching. This book has many stories within itself. The theme or topic revolves around the children and how they react to literature and ...

Kwanzaa and Me: A Teachers Story

10 reviews
Vivian Gussin Paley

Harvard University Press, 1996

Missouri-MSC
Currently, I am a college student majoring in education. I chose this book for a class assignment and I enjoyed it. The author brought forth issues in regards to race, religion and just the mere diversity of the classroom. I feel this was easy reading addressing very strong issues, waying out the pros and cons of the multi-cultural classroom. I recommend this book to teachers, parents, ...

The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter: The Uses of Storytelling in the Classroom

6 reviews
Vivian Gussin Paley, Robert Coles

Harvard University Press, 1990

I have a question
Love her story-telling and its relationship to teaching - I use it in my ESL classes. Is Vivian related to the short story writer - Grace Paley?

A Child's Work: The Importance of Fantasy Play

4 reviews
Vivian Gussin Paley

University Of Chicago Press, 2005

A Child's Work: The Importance of Fantasy Play
I enjoy all of Vivian Paley's books, but this one is especially timely and pertinent since I am part of a kindergarten readiness transition team for a school district in Pennsylvania. Ms. Paley is very clear about the importance of play during the early childhood years and brings her beliefs across in a simple and convincing format. I bought a copy for each member of our team with the hope ...

Starting Small: Teaching Tolerance in Preschool and the Early Grades
Teaching Tolerance Project

Southern Poverty Law Center, 1997

The vision of community that the early childhood classroom provides can color children's ideas and expectations about equity, cooperation and citizenship for a lefetime. A project of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Wally's Stories

6 reviews
Vivian Gussin Paley

Harvard University Press, 1987

If You Want To Learn....
If you are willing to learn from children, I recommend this fascinating book. Paley's taped conversations and stories from her Kindergarten classes reveal the engaged young minds at work; their creativity and inventiveness is genuine and persistent; experience is never so important as imagination. The narratives that the children invent reveal how their minds work, how they search for ...

Starting Small Teaching Tolerance in Preschool and the Early Grades
Teaching Tolerance Project

Teaching Tolerance - Southern Poverty Law Center, 1997

The teachers of young children who speak to us so earnestly in the stories in Starting Small work in different communities but share a common vision: that children can learn to care about every other person's feelings, beliefs and welfare. The notion may seem commonplace, something surely found in most classrooms. Yet, given the number of sad faces, hurt feelings and lonely outsiders in our schools, the empathy factor may be more talked about ...

White Teacher

14 reviews
Vivian Gussin Paley

Harvard University Press, 2000

A Paradox in the Classroom: How Objectivity Cultivates Uncritical Teachers
Vivian Paley's groundbreaking work, White Teacher, ushers one through an array of intimate experiences with and reflections about the challenges she faced as a white teacher, working to develop a pedagogy free of the marginalization and neglect that disproportionately affect the educational experiences of many non-white children. Paley's evolving understanding of the complexities of teaching ...

Boys and Girls: Superheroes in the Doll Corner

3 reviews
Vivian Gussin Paley

University Of Chicago Press, 1986

I highly recommend this book!
I didn't know what to expect when I picked this book up. Vivian Gussin Paley (now retired) is a highly respected child psychologist, and she spent years studying children while at the University of Chicago. This book is a result of her work with kindergarten students, noting how they played, and subsequently how they developed. She went into her research with the assumption that boys and girls ...

You Can't Say You Can't Play

14 reviews
Vivian Gussin Paley

Harvard University Press, 1993

Loved it!
This book expresses what many of us know inherently, but Paley finds a way to say it, to bring it into your conscience, and to do it with a lyricism that is her writing "voice." It makes me wish she were my Kindergarten teacher...well, not really, since I still love my dear Mrs. Shabay and Miss Reezak! If you're a teacher or a parent, the focus is on what is important about play, and most ...

The Kindness of Children

9 reviews
Vivian Gussin Paley

Harvard University Press, 2000

Kindergarteners ARE kinder
As a daycare teacher, I have to respectfully disagree with the readers who claim Paley lives in a dream world. In my experience working with 2 to 6 year olds, ALL children are extremely kind and good! In fact, I am constantly blown away by how inherently good, kind and innocent they are. (And I wonder what on earth happens to us to make us change as we get older!) Yes, there are always fights, ...

Bad Guys Don't Have Birthdays: Fantasy Play at Four

1 review
Vivian Gussin Paley

University Of Chicago Press, 1991

Fantasy Play is amazing!
I really enjoyed this book because it allowed for super hero play which is often frowned on in early education classrooms. Children are allowed to express themselves thru play and their imaginiations can run wild. This book did a great job of showing the reader just how children use their imagininations in play and just how quick the theme can change. This is a great book for anyone who is in the ...

Unsmiling Faces

3 reviews

Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2007

A "must-read" for anyone that works with young children!
As a preschool teacher of both typically developping and delayed children, I have found Lesley Koplow's book to be a valuable resource. Her easy to read book is complete with background on the major developmental milestones of early childhood, practical techniques to foster a nurturing classroom environment, and actual lesson plans to implement emotional goals. Numerous anecdotes from the ...

Mollie Is Three: Growing Up in School
Vivian Gussin Paley

University Of Chicago Press, 1988

"No adult can escape the adult perspective; but simply recognizing its inevitable limitations in a children's world enables a few gifted educators to accept the existence and vilify of whole kindergartens full of different perspectives. One such person is Vivian Gussin Paley. . . . Her books. . .should be required reading wherever children are growing."? New York Times Book Review "With a delightful, almost magical touch, Paley shares her ...

In Mrs. Tully's Room: A Childcare Portrait

1 review
Vivian Gussin Paley

Harvard University Press, 2003

Paley does it again
This little story is a quick read. Having retired, Vivian Paley now tells the story of a school she visits and comes quickly to love. They are doing stories in the 2's class - which might involve just one word from a child. which is later lovingly acted out by the whole class. As an early childhood educator, I read Paley to get ideas and wisdom for my own classroom. But this is a book that ...

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