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

Cooper Examines The Work Of Educationalist Vivian Paley Highlighting The Argument That A Pedagogical Model Should Be Organized Around Two Complementary Principles: A Curriculum That Promotes Play And Imagination, And The Idea Of Classrooms As Places Where Children Of All Colour, Ability And Disposition Are Welcome. Prologue : An N Of 1 -- Introduction : Why Interpret The Clear? -- Pt. 1. Curricular Matters : A Pedagogy Of Meaning -- Early Literacy, Play, And A Teaching Philosophy -- Fantasy Play And Young Children's Search For Meaning -- Storytelling And Story Acting : Meaning Extended -- Pt. 2. Relational Matters : A Pedagogy Of Fairness -- Teaching As A Moral Act, Classrooms As Democratic Spaces -- Race, Pedagogy, And The Search For Fairness -- Fairness Extended : Superheroes, Helicopters, And The Unchosen -- Epilogue : The Classrooms Young Children Need--an N Of Many -- Appendix A : Guide To Implementation Of Paley's Storytelling Curriculum -- Appendix B : Sample Stories -- Appendix C : Sample Transcript Of Child Dictation -- Appendix D : Becoming A Teacher Of Stories. Patricia M. Cooper. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [211]-226) And Index.