Wally's Stories

Name: Wally's Stories
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ISBN: 9780674945937

ISBN-10: 067494593X

ISBN-13: 9780674945937

Edition: 1981

Authors: Vivian Gussin Paley

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Teachers are often taught that young children are incapable of logical thought. Prone to fantasy and unruffled by inconsistency, preschool children are frequently baffled by the first lessons of early schooling. Trained to gently resist the child's illogic, teachers sometimes create just the incomprehension and anxiety they mean to avoid. In Wally's Stories, Vivian Paley shows that none of this need be so. Wally's Stories is itself a story: the story of the evolution of a kindergarten classroom in which Vivian Paley learned to stop fighting childish fantasy and instead make use of it to stimulate the very best brand of thinking her five year-olds can muster. Stories also lie at the heart…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1981
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/15/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Vivian Gussin Paley, a former kindergarten teacher, is the winner of a MacArthur Award and of the 1998 American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement given by the Before Columbus Foundation.