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You Can’t Say You Can’t Play
Vivian Gussin Paley
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Description for You Can’t Say You Can’t Play
Paperback. In this look at the moral dimensions of the classroom, MacArthur Prize-winning educator Vivian Paley introduces a new rule - "You can't say you can't play" - to her kindergarten students. Paley uses this rule to explore how to keep children from being ignored by their classmates. Num Pages: 144 pages, 5 line illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JFSP2; JNC; JNLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 168.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
Weight
172g
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674965904
SKU
V9780674965904
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Ref
99-1
About Vivian Gussin Paley
Vivian Gussin Paley (1929–2019), a longtime classroom teacher at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, was a MacArthur Fellow and winner of the 1998 American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Reviews for You Can’t Say You Can’t Play
Vivian Gussin Paley’s book You Can’t Say You Can’t Play is arresting in its title, magical in its appeal, and inspiring in its message… [It] illustrates how the teacher’s art can attack the evil of exclusion at its childhood root. Now, Mrs. Paley, we need your help in weeding out the pernicious practices that afflict the adults of our exclusionary ... Read more