Under Deadman's Skin Discovering the Meaning of Children's Violent Play

Name: Under Deadman's Skin Discovering the Meaning of Children's Violent Play
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ISBN: 9780807031292

ISBN-10: 0807031291

ISBN-13: 9780807031292

Edition: 2002

Authors: Jane Katch, Vivian Gussin Paley

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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…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 2/18/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English