The boy on the beach : building community through play
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The boy on the beach : building community through play
The University of Chicago Press, c2010
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- The boy on the beach
- Letters from Taiwan
- Hurricanes and howling wolves
- Letters
- A lonely wolf
- Letters
- Stanley is here
- Letters
- Baby unicorns and glue fairies
- Bad stuff
- More chaos: old person on fire!
- Letters
- Moving rocks
- The ocean and the island
- Letters
- Almost a day at the beach
- We together have a friendship
- Stanley's fish
- Making scenes
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内容説明
Four-year-old Eli plays in the sand on the beach, playing fireman, protector, and scout, battling waves and defeating invisible monsters. But then a new playmate, Marianne, arrives with her doll, and the boy's stories adapt to accommodate hers: the fireman saves the doll from drowning, but then the doll's mother and father put it safely to bed. What can the richly imagined, impressively adaptable fantasy world of these children tell us about childhood, development, education, and even life itself? For fifty years, educator Vivian Gussin Paley has been exploring such questions - by paying close attention to the imagery, language, and lore of young children. With "The Boy on the Beach", she continues to do so, using her time-honored method of letting children tell the stories of their play in their own words, revealing the developing logic and learning that enable them to create meaning from the complicated world around them.
Combining those careful accounts of make-believe with gentle but incisive analysis and a series of letters between Paley and a fellow teacher in Taiwan, "The Boy on the Beach" reveals the ways that children use their powers of invention to develop the flexibility needed to form a society based on friendship, fantasy, and fairness - an ideal that all educators should foster. Full of wonderful, inimitable stories from the classroom, "The Boy on the Beach" is vintage Paley, a wise and delightful reminder of the importance of play and the enduring appeal of stories.
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