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Under deadman's skin : discovering the meaning of children's violent play / Jane Katch ; introduction by Vivian Gussin Paley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Katch, Jane.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children and violence.
- Violence in children.
- Social groups.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (143 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Beacon Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The five-and six-year-olds in my class have invented a new game they call suicide. I have never seen a game I hate so much in which all the children involved are so happy. So begins Under Deadman's Skin , a deceptively simple-and compellingly readable-teachers' tale. Jane Katch, in the tradition of Vivian Paley and Jonathan Kozol, uses her student's own vocabulary and storytelling to set the scene: a class of five-and six-year-olds obsessed with what is to their teacher hatefully violent fantasy play. Katch asks, 'Can I make a place in school for understanding these fantasies, instead of shutting them out?' Over the course of the year she holds group discussions to determine what kind of play creates or calms turmoil; she illustrates (or rather the children illustrate) the phenomenon of very young children needing to make sense of exceptionally violent imagery; and she consults with older grade-school boys who remember what it was like to be obsessed by violence and tell Katch what she can do to help. Katch's classroom journey-one that leads her to rules and limits that keep children secure-is an enabling blueprint for any teacher or parent disturbed by violent children's play.
- Contents:
- The suicide game
- Murderer
- Rated R
- The party
- Runaways
- Obsessed
- Reserved
- He knows I know he knows
- The F-word
- Anaconda
- Vulnerable bad guys, electric fences, and poisonous snakes
- A vulnerable writer
- Strangled
- The rules of violence
- Girls!
- The white ninja
- The shooting game
- Hippo and baboon
- Bottled up
- Baba yaga
- Forgiveness
- Keeping calm
- Half bulldog, half chihuahua
- Exorcising the exorcist
- Tortured
- Mama's little baby
- Puppy power
- The baby business
- The finger
- The car race
- A cold duckling, a school shooting, and a home for a dead butterfly
- Placing blame
- Empathy
- A big, big teacher.
- Notes:
- "Beacon Press books are published under the auspices of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations."
- ISBN:
- 0-8070-3137-2
- OCLC:
- 70764224
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