how values affect teachers’ functioning/behaviors
moral responsibilities in relation to children
and practice of sharing children’s work
understanding unique capacities of individual children
See also trusting children (faith in children)
verbal abuse
Vitale-Wolff, David (student teacher)
idealism
learning to trust children’s thinking/theory-making
and the squirrel study
students’ personal relationships with
Wally’s Stories (Paley)
Weber, Lillian
White Teacher (Paley)
Whitney Museum
word cards
work, children’s
art as
talk as
Workshop Center at City College of New York
writing, children’s
children’s purposes in
and children’s rituals
as communication
journal writing
and kindergarteners’ different levels of knowledge
rooted in experiences
writing folders
See also literacy (teaching reading and writing)
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HOW KINDERGARTEN CAME TO AMERICA
Friedrich Froebel’s Radical Vision of Early Childhood Education Bertha von Marenholtz-Bülow
An enchanting 1894 account of the inventor of kindergarten, introduced to a new generation of educators and parents by Herbert Kohl.
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