The Classrooms All Young Children Need: Lessons in Teaching from Vivian Paley
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The Classrooms All Young Children Need: Lessons in Teaching from Vivian Paley

The Classrooms All Young Children Need: Lessons in Teaching from Vivian Paley

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Patricia M. Cooper (Author)  

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Teacher and author Vivian Paley is highly regarded by parents, educators, and other professionals for her original insights into such seemingly everyday issues as play, story, gender, and how young children think. In "The Classrooms All Young Children Need", Patricia M. Cooper takes a synoptic view of Paley's many books and articles, charting the evolution of Paley's thinking while revealing the seminal characteristics of her teaching philosophy. This careful analysis leads Cooper to identify a pedagogical model organized around two complementary principles: a curriculum that promotes play and imagination, and the idea of classrooms as fair places where young children of every color, ability, and disposition are welcome. With timely attention paid to debates about the reduction in time for play in the early childhood classroom, the role of race in education, and No Child Left Behind, "The Classrooms All Young Children Need" will be embraced by anyone tasked with teaching our youngest pupils.
Patricia M. Cooper is assistant professor of early childhood education and literacy at New York University's Steinhardt School of Education and the author of When Stories Come to School: Telling, Writing, and Performing Stories in the Early Childhood Classroom.
  • Contributor: Patricia M. Cooper
  • Imprint: University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN13: 9780226115238
  • Number of Pages: 248
  • Packaged Dimensions: 15x22x2mm
  • Packaged Weight: 397
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • Release Date: 2009-09-18
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Patricia M. Cooper is assistant professor of early childhood education and literacy at New York University's Steinhardt School of Education and the author of When Stories Come to School: Telling, Writing, and Performing Stories in the Early Childhood Classroom.

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