Wally's stories
By: Vivien Gussin Paley.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Kindergarten -- Methods and manuals; Creative thinking -- Education, Primary
Description: Publisher's description: Vivian Paley's account of her kindergarten classroom, where children are encouraged to learn by using their fantasies and stories. The book describes the evolution of both teacher and students as they grow to understand each other through this unusual teaching method. The author shows that in the course of creating their own dramatic world, five-year-olds are capable of thought and language far in advance of what they accomplish in traditional classroom exercises.