Boys and Girls

In "Boys and Girls," Vivian Paley has re-created a year of kindergarten teaching in which she explored the differences in the ways children play and fantasize. Each year, swords and purses in hand, the children rush to proclaim themselves boys or girls. Watching the Cinderellas and Darth Vaders pursue their separate fantasies, Paley questions the cliches and prejudices of the teacher's curriculum that reward girls' domestic play while discouraging boys' adventurous fantasies. The children's own conversations, stories playacting, and scuffles are interwoven with Paley's observations and accounts of her attempts to alter the children's stereotyped play. Their search for self-definition will reawaken our own childhood memories, and Paley's sensitive efforts to uncover her prejudices will illuminate our own biases, values, and expectations for our children.

ISBN 0226644928   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9780226644929 (What's this?)   Pages 128 Publisher The University of Chicago Press   Volumes 1 Imprint University of Chicago Press   Weight (grammes) 170 Format Paperback   Published in Chicago, IL Publication date 01 Apr 1986   Height (mm) 203 Writer of foreword Philip W. Jackson   Width (mm) 132 Library of Congress 84000093   Spine width (mm) 9 DEWEY 305.23   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

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