Center Events:
Speaker Series
2000 Speaker Series
Vivian Paley
December 5-6, 2000
Vivian
Gussen Paley writes and teaches about the world of young children. She
examines their stories and play, their logic and their thinking, searching
for meaning in the social and moral landscapes of classroom life. A
kindergarten teacher for 37 years, Mrs. Paley brings her storytelling/story
acting and discussion techniques to children, teachers and parents
throughout the world. She is the recipient of the 1987 Erikson institute
Award for Service to Children and a MacArthur Fellowhip in 1989. She
received a Lifetime Achievement American Book Award from the Before Columbus
Foundation in 1998. In 1997, her book, The Girl with the Brown Crayon, was
give teh Harvard University press annual Virginia and Warren Stone Price as
the outstanding book about education and society and in 1999 the same book
brought her the NCTE David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in
Teaching of English. Also, Mrs. Paley received the John Dewey Society's
Outstanding Achievement Award for the year 2000. The titles of some of her
other books include White Teacher; Wally's Stories; Boys and Girls; You
Can't Say You Can't Play; Kwanza and Me; and The Kindness of Children.
