by Vivian Gussin Paley · Harvard University Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780674080317
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«The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter» is the educational essay by Vivian Gussin Paley, published by Harvard University Press in paperback (163 pages).
Vivian Gussin Paley analyzes the social functions of symbolic play and storytelling in a preschool classroom, using as a thread Jason, an isolated child who integrates through fantasy. The work recreates real scenes where children are natural storytellers and reflects on authority, limits, and the teacher's role.
The subtitle is 'The Uses of Storytelling in the Classroom'; the work includes a foreword by Robert Coles and corresponds to a revised edition.
For early childhood educators and readers interested in children's fantasy and classroom social dynamics.
Vivian Gussin Paley was an American pre-school and kindergarten teacher and early childhood education researcher. She taught and did most of her research at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, as well as the author of numerous books.
