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Author Paley, Vivian Gussin, 1929-2019

Title In Mrs. Tully's room : a childcare portrait / Vivian Gussin Paley
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (151 pages)
Contents Frontmatter -- In Mrs. Tully's Room
Summary Focusing on a single childcare centre, this book shows how the providers combine teaching ability and emotional responsiveness to help even the smallest children learn words, concepts, stories, and the management of their emotions
Watching two-year-old Alex and his toddler classmates act out his one-word "Mama" story, and hearing their teacher muse, "It seems the best reason to tell stories when you are little is to keep Mama in mind," Vivian Paley found herself drawn into a remarkable childcare centre. "In Mrs. Tully's Room" tells the story of the comforting and compelling community created by the centre's gifted director.;In joining Paley on her many visits to this centre, readers see how childcare providers combine teaching ability and emotional responsiveness to help even the smallest children learn words, concepts, stories, and the management of their emotions. Mrs. Tully's memories of her own childhood enrich her ability to understand her two-, three-, four-, and five-year-olds, and to draw them into the world of expressive storytelling.;"In Mrs. Tully's Room" makes a case for the pedagogical skill and psychological insight that childcare providers - so often underpaid and undervalued - can bring to their work. It also emphasizes how warm, quasi-familial, even mentoring relationships can develop between childcare providers and their preschool families.;The book aims to offer hope to parents and practical guidelines for daycare providers on how to use their imaginations, and those of their charges, to enrich the children's minds and hearts
Notes Print version record
Subject Tully, Lillian
SUBJECT Tully, Lillian fast
Subject Day care centers -- Illinois -- Chicago
Child care workers -- Illinois -- Chicago
Education, Preschool -- Illinois -- Chicago
Storytelling.
Storytelling ability in children.
EDUCATION -- Preschool & Kindergarten.
Child care workers
Day care centers
Education, Preschool
Storytelling
Storytelling ability in children
Illinois -- Chicago
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674041882
0674041887