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Title details for Boys and Girls by Vivian Gussin Paley - Available

Boys and Girls

by Vivian Gussin Paley
Vivian Gussin Paley
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The classic work that revealed the complicated world of children's play, and what we can learn from it for education

For more than forty years, Boys and Girls has a classic account of the little-known world that young children create together when they play. Vivian Gussin Paley takes readers inside a kindergarten classroom to show them in detail how boys and girls play—and how, by playing and fantasizing in different ways, they work through complicated notions of gender roles and identity. The children's own conversations, stories, playacting, and scuffles are interwoven with Paley's observations and accounts of her vain attempts to alter their stereotyped play. In the decades since the book's original publication, play in kindergarten and early years of school has lost ground to structured teaching and even testing, which makes Paley's book, updated for a new era, more important than ever. To teach kids successfully, we must make space for play.

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  • English