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You Can't Say You Can't Play
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Product Description
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.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #244056 in Books
- Published on: 1993-09-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 144 pages
Customer Reviews
sensitive look at how and why kids leave each other out
The autor is a kindegarten teacher who wants to tackle the ever present problem of exclusion in her class. She proposes to the children that they institute a new rule: 'you can't say you can't play'. The book is an account of the process of exploration and negotiation she goes through with the children, both in her class and in others further up the school. On the way she encounters, and respectfully and sensitively refutes their many arguments against such a rule. Eventually she institutes the rule, and finds, after all the struggle and forecasts of doom, that the children take to it quickly and easily; almost with relief, as they find new and more co-operative ways of interacting. The reports of her conversations with the kids and her own thought processes, are intersperced with a story she tells to her class, which reflects the journey they are taking in a beautifully subltle way. This sensitive and very human book, gave me hope that there might indeed be a straight-forward and respectful way of helping children out of the painful habit of exclusion.
Perfect teacher gift
Vivian Paley's tender observations and patient interactions with Kindergarteners kept me turning the pages of this book long before my own children were pre-school age, or before I had been teaching long enough to realize that this book would become a useful resource for teachers of any age students. I come back to this book all the time to find the truth about how classroom rules and environments can and should be constructed.
