wyszukanych pozycji: 13
You Can't Say You Can't Play
ISBN: 9780674965904 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Who of us cannot remember the pain and humiliation of being rejected by our classmates? However thick-skinned or immune to such assaults we may become as adults, the memory of those early exclusions is as palpable to each of us today as it is common to human experience. We remember the uncertainty of separating from our home and entering school as strangers and, more than the relief of making friends, we recall the cruel moments of our own isolation as well as those children we knew were destined to remain strangers. In this book Vivian Paley employs a unique strategy to probe the moral...
Who of us cannot remember the pain and humiliation of being rejected by our classmates? However thick-skinned or immune to such assaults we may become...
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114,66 zł |
A Child's Work: The Importance of Fantasy Play
ISBN: 9780226644899 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The buzz word in education today is accountability. But the federal mandate of "no child left behind" has come to mean curriculums driven by preparation for standardized tests and quantifiable learning results. Even for very young children, unstructured creative time in the classroom is waning as teachers and administrators are under growing pressures to measure school readiness through rote learning and increased homework. In her new book, Vivian Gussin Paley decries this rapid disappearance of creative time and makes the case for the critical role of fantasy play in the psychological,...
The buzz word in education today is accountability. But the federal mandate of "no child left behind" has come to mean curriculums driven by preparati...
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65,90 zł |
Kwanzaa and Me: A Teacher's Story
ISBN: 9780674505865 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "All these white schools I've been sent to are racist," Sonya says. "I'd have done better in a black school. I was an outsider here." These are hard words for Vivian Paley, whose own kindergarten was one of Sonya's schools, the integrated classroom so lovingly and hopefully depicted by Paley in White Teacher. Confronted with the grown-up Sonya, now on her way to a black college, and with a chorus of voices questioning the fairness and effectiveness of integrated education, Paley sets out to discover the truth about the multicultural classroom from those who participate in it. This... "All these white schools I've been sent to are racist," Sonya says. "I'd have done better in a black school. I was an outsider here." These are har... |
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148,00 zł |
White Teacher: With a New Preface, Third Edition
ISBN: 9780674002739 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Vivian Paley presents a moving personal account of her experiences teaching kindergarten in an integrated school within a predominantly white, middle-class neighbourhood. In a new preface, she reflects on the way that even simple terminology can convey unintended meanings and show a speaker's blind spots. She also vividly describes what her readers have taught her over the years about herself as a white teacher.
Vivian Paley presents a moving personal account of her experiences teaching kindergarten in an integrated school within a predominantly white, middle-...
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126,03 zł |
In Mrs. Tully's Room: A Childcare Portrait (Revised)
ISBN: 9780674011168 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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.
In Mrs. Tully's Room makes a quiet but powerful case for the pedagogical skill and psychological insight that childcare providers--so often und...
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148,00 zł |
Boys and Girls: Superheroes in the Doll Corner
ISBN: 9780226130101 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 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 playand 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...
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 pla...
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87,86 zł |
The Girl with the Brown Crayon
ISBN: 9780674354425 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Once again Vivian Paley takes us into the inquiring minds and the dramatic worlds of young children learning in the kindergarten classroom. As she enters her final year of teaching, Paley tells in this book a story of farewell and a story of self-discovery--through the thoughts and blossoming spirit of Reeny, a little girl with a fondness for the color brown and an astonishing sense of herself. "This brown girl dancing is me," Reeny announces, as her crayoned figures flit across the classroom walls. Soon enough we are drawn into Reeny's remarkable dance of self-revelation and... Once again Vivian Paley takes us into the inquiring minds and the dramatic worlds of young children learning in the kindergarten classroom. A... |
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115,05 zł |
Bad Guys Don't Have Birthdays: Fantasy Play at Four
ISBN: 9780226644967 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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... 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 ...
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69,89 zł |
Wally's Stories
ISBN: 9780674945937 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Teachers are often taught that young children are incapable of logical thought. Prone to fantasy and unruffled by inconsistency, preschool children are frequently baffled by the first lessons of early schooling. Trained to gently resist the child's illogic, teachers sometimes create just the incomprehension and anxiety they mean to avoid. In Wally's Stories, Vivian Paley shows that none of this need be so. Wally's Stories is itself a story: the story of the evolution of a kindergarten classroom in which Vivian Paley learned to stop fighting childish fantasy and instead... Teachers are often taught that young children are incapable of logical thought. Prone to fantasy and unruffled by inconsistency, preschool children... |
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142,51 zł |
Kindness of Children (Revised)
ISBN: 9780674003903 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Visiting a London nursery school, Vivian Paley observes the schoolchildren's reception of another visitor, a handicapped boy named Teddy, who is strapped into a wheelchair, wearing a helmet, and barely able to speak. A predicament arises, and the children's response--simple and immediate--offers Paley the purest evidence of kindness she has ever seen. In subsequent encounters, "the Teddy story" draws forth other tales of impulsive goodness from Paley's listeners. Just so, it resonates through this book as one story leads to another--taking surprising turns, intersecting with the... Visiting a London nursery school, Vivian Paley observes the schoolchildren's reception of another visitor, a handicapped boy named Teddy, who is st... |
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148,00 zł |
Mollie Is Three: Growing Up in School
ISBN: 9780226644943 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "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 observations and insights about three-year-olds. The use of a tape recorder in the classroom gives her a second chance to hear students' thoughts from... "No adult can escape the adult perspective; but simply recognizing its inevitable limitations in a children's world enables a few gifted educators to ...
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76,88 zł |
The Boy on the Beach: Building Community Through Play
ISBN: 9780226150956 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Four-year-old Eli plays alone at the shore, inventing dramas out of sand and water. He is Builder, Fireman, Protector, and Scout, overcoming waves and conquering monsters. Enter Marianne and doll, Mother and Baby, eager to redefine Eli as a good father and homesteader. Their separate visions intertwine in a search for a common ground on which howling wolves and butterfly sisters can learn to understand and need one another. What can the richly imagined, impressively adaptable fantasy world of these children tell us about childhood, development, education, and even life itself? For... Four-year-old Eli plays alone at the shore, inventing dramas out of sand and water. He is Builder, Fireman, Protector, and Scout, overcoming waves ... |
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76,88 zł |
The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter
ISBN: 9780674080317 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) How does a teacher begin to appreciate and tap the rich creative resources of the fantasy world of children? What social functions do story playing and storytelling serve in the preschool classroom? And how can the child who is trapped in private fantasies be brought into the richly imaginative social play that surrounds him? The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter focuses on the challenge posed by the isolated child to teachers and classmates alike in the unique community of the classroom. It is the dramatic story of Jason-the loner and outsider-and of his ultimate triumph and... How does a teacher begin to appreciate and tap the rich creative resources of the fantasy world of children? What social functions do story playing... |
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113,32 zł |