The Classrooms All Young Children Need
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The Classrooms All Young Children Need

Lessons in Teaching from Vivian Paley

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eBook - PDF

The Classrooms All Young Children Need

Lessons in Teaching from Vivian Paley

About this book

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. In The Classrooms All Young Children Need, Patricia M. Cooper takes a synoptic view of Paley's many books and articles, charting the evolution of Paley's thinking while revealing the seminal characteristics of her teaching philosophy. This careful analysis leads Cooper to identify a pedagogical model organized around two complementary principles: a curriculum that promotes play and imagination, and the idea of classrooms as fair places where young children of every color, ability, and disposition are welcome.

With timely attention paid to debates about the reduction in time for play in the early childhood classroom, the role of race in education, and No Child Left Behind, The Classrooms All Young Children Need will be embraced by anyone tasked with teaching our youngest pupils.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Prologue: An “N of 1”
  4. Introduction: Why Interpret the Clear?
  5. Part I: Curricular Matters: A Pedagogy of Meaning
  6. Part II: Relational Matters: A Pedagogy of Fairness
  7. Epilogue: The Classrooms Young Children Need—an“N of Many”
  8. Appendix A: Guide to Implementation of Paley’s Storytelling Curriculum
  9. Appendix B: Sample Stories
  10. Appendix C: Sample Transcript of Child Dictation
  11. Appendix D: Becoming a Teacher of Stories
  12. Notes
  13. References
  14. Index