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" A Child's Work : "
Vivian Gussin Paley
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726145
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b545877
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Vivian Gussin Paley
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A Child's Work : : the Importance of Fantasy Play.\ Vivian Gussin Paley
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Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009
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(123 pages)
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0226644987
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: 9780226644981
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contents; one young children; two the language of play; three charlotte and cinderella; four the first rungs of the ladder; five the invention of theater; six looking for peter rabbit; seven frogs, kittens, and bad guys; eight before there was school, there were stories; nine big A and little a; ten anxious families, philosophical children; eleven the art of conversation; twelve who owns the subject?; thirteen simon's story; fourteen proving what we know; fifteen the subject was a puzzle piece; sixteen tom and jerry; seventeen pretenses and perceptions; eighteen what if? nineteen franklin in the blockstwenty musical chairs; twenty-one a letter from england.
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The buzz word in education today is accountability. But the federal mandate of "no child left behind" has come to mean curriculums driven by preparation for standardized tests and quantifiable learning results. Even for very young children, unstructured creative time in the classroom is waning as teachers and administrators are under growing pressures to measure school readiness through rote learning and increased homework. In her new book, Vivian Gussin Paley decries this rapid disappearance of creative time and makes the case for the critical role of fantasy play in the psychological, intell.
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Education.
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Psychology.
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LB1139.35.P55V585 2009
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