The Kindness of Children by Vivian Gussin Paley
Visiting a London nursery school, Vivian Paley observed the schoolchildren's reception of another visitor - a handicapped boy named Teddy, who was strapped into a wheelchair, wearing a helmet, and barely able to speak. A predicament arose, and the children's response offered Paley the purest evidence of kindness she had ever seen. Recounting similar stories of kindness by children, Paley's journey takes the reader into the different world of urban London, Chicago, Oakland and New York, and to a close-knit small town in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Her own story connects those of children from nursery school to high school, and circles back to her elderly mother, whose experiences as a frightened immigrant girl, helped through a strange school and a new language by another child, reappear in the story of a young Mexican American girl.Vivian Gussin Paley (1929-2019), a longstanding classroom teacher at the University of Chicago Experimental Schools and recipient of the American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1998, was a MacArthur Fellow.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674503588 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674503589 |
| Title | The Kindness of Children |
| Author | Vivian Gussin Paley |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 1999-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 134 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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