Vivian Gussin Paley, Ph.D., taught preschool and kindergarten at the University of Chicago’s acclaimed Laboratory School for over 30 years. She is the author of thirteen books about young children, including, You Can’t Say You Can’t Play, A Child’s Work: The Importance of Fantasy Play, and The Boy on the Beach: Building Community Through Play. A winner of numerous awards and honors, including a MacArthur Fellowship “Genius Grant,” Dr. Paley has long advocated that fantasy play is the mechanism through which children make sense of their worlds. Such meaning-making activity develops both the logic and flexibility needed to form a society based on friendship, fantasy and fairness.
Description
The art of story dictation and story acting. In a lively examination of the original classroom theater, we will act out the actual stories children tell and look for the teaching and learning opportunities they provide.