A child's work : the importance of fantasy play / Vivian Gussin Paley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paley, Vivian Gussin, 1929-2019.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Play.

Early childhood education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (123 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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,

Contents:

contents; one young children; two the language of play; three charlotte and cinderella; four the first rungs of the ladder; five the invention of theater; six looking for peter rabbit; seven frogs, kittens, and bad guys; eight before there was school, there were stories; nine big A and little a; ten anxious families, philosophical children; eleven the art of conversation; twelve who owns the subject?; thirteen simon's story; fourteen proving what we know; fifteen the subject was a puzzle piece; sixteen tom and jerry; seventeen pretenses and perceptions; eighteen what if?

nineteen franklin in the blockstwenty musical chairs; twenty-one a letter from england

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786612426780

9781282426788

1282426788

9780226644981

0226644987

OCLC:

659807008