Mollie Is Three: Growing Up in School

By Vivian Gussin Paley

Book Overview

"No adult can escape the adult perspective; but simply recognizing its inevitable limitations in a children's world enables a few gifted educators to accept the existence and validity of whole kindergartens full of different perspectives. One such person is Vivian Gussin Paley. . . . Her books. . .should be required reading wherever children are growing."-New York Times Book Review

"With a delightful, almost magical touch, Paley shares her observations and insights about three-year-olds. The use of a tape recorder in the classroom gives her a second chance to hear students' thoughts from the doll corner to the playground, and to reflect on the ways in which young children make sense of the experience of school. . . . Paley lets the children speak for themselves, and through their words we reenter the world of the child in all its fantasy and inventiveness."-Harvard Educational Review

"Paley's vivid and accurate descriptions depict both spontaneous and recurring incidents and outline increasingly complex interactions among the children. Included in the narrative are questions or ideas to challenge the reader to gain more insight and understanding into the motives and conceptualizations of Mollie and other children."-Karen L. Peterson, Young Children

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226644944
• ISBN13: 9780226644943
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

surprised by how much I learned

This book lets you into how a 3 year old think and process and interact with you and their world. Wow. What an eye-opener for me. Gave me lots of new information to put to use right away and make communication much more rich. D. Hopkins