Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: An "N of 1"
  • Introduction: Why interpret the clear?
  • Early literacy, play, and a teaching philosophy
  • Fantasy play and young children's search for meaning
  • Storytelling and story acting : meaning extended
  • Teaching as a moral act, classrooms as democratic spaces
  • Race, pedagogy, and the search for fairness
  • Fairness extended : superheroes, helicopters, and the unchosen
  • Epilogue: The classrooms young children need--an "N of many"
  • Appendix A: Guide to implementation of Paley's storytelling curriculum
  • Appendix B: Sample stories
  • Appendix C: Sample transcript of child dictation
  • Appendix D: Becoming a teacher of stories.