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Vivian Gussin Paley
“To her, teaching was not about meeting a bunch of core requirements that you can quantify; it was about being a human being.”
-Mr. Hornstein
By: Ashley Doty
Brookie Weidman
Mercedes Arntz
Her story
Meet Vivian
- Born in Chicago, Illanois in 1929
- Bachelor's degree in ECE, master's degree in curriculum development
- Strong advocate for narrativel storytelling in the classroom
- Recieved numerous awards/honors in her career
- Importance of collaborative play and role of the teacher in facilitating/guiding children's play
Intriguing
Most Intriguing
- Paley had a deep understanding of the importance of story telling and make believe play in young children's development
- Paleys work challeneged the notion that activities are more childhood pastimes, instead she revealed how they serve as a window into the intricate world of children's thoughts, feelings, and relationships
Historic Trends of her Time
Histroric Trends of her Time
- Civil Rights Movement
- Feminism and Gender Equity
- Emergence of Early Childhood Education
- Growing Focus on Teacher Professional Development
- Influence of Jean Piaget
where her heart was
"Play is the answer to how anything new comes about."
Vivian Paley's educational philosophy centers on the belief that children are active, curious, and capable learners.
Her philosophy
RESPECT
Respect for Childrens Ideas
- Through listening and validating children's thoughts and stories, Paley respects their ideas, stories, and perspectives.
- Her research always emanates from an experience that needs explaining or a question that needs answering, to which she adds the additional undercurrent of why.
- Vivian strives for her students to become comfortable with theirselves and others.
- Paley places children at the center of their learning process, allowing them to lead their educational experiences through play and storytelling.
Vivians Impact
Vivian Paley insisted that stories, whether acted out or told by children, play an important role in their developmental growth.
Her influence
“Since fantasy play is the glue that binds together all other pursuits, including the early teaching of reading and writing skills, I am compelled to put it on display as clearly as I can."
- Vivian Paley
Vivians techniques and methods for storytelling have been adopted other places where public school systems have incorporated them into their curriculum.
She really cared
Vivian Wrote 13 Children's Books
Her Books
Kahoot! Game
Here are the titles of her books:
1) White Teacher (1979)
2) Wally’s Stories (1981)
3) Mollie is Three: Growing Up in School (1988)
4) Bad Guys Don’t Have Birthdays: Fantasy Play at Four (1988)
5) The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter: Uses of Storytelling in the Classroom (1990)
6) You Can’t Say You Can’t Play (1992)
7) The Girl with the Brown Crayon (1997)
8) Kwanzaa and Me: A Teacher’s Story (1995)
9) The Kindness of Children (1999)
10) Boys and Girls: Superheroes in the Doll Corner (2004)
11) A Child’s Work: The Importance of Fantasy Play (2004)
12) A Child’s Work: The Importance of Fantasy Play, Second Edition (2005)
13) The Importance of Fantasy Play (2009)
Code: 06761145
https://kahoot.it/challenge/06761145?challenge-id=7391fc73-938d-4fa3-947b-d8af76852e85_1698032582200
Resources
Brookie's
Cooper, P. (2019). Understanding Vivian Paley as a teacher researcher. NAEYC. https://www.naeyc.org/resources/pubs/vop/dec2019/understanding-vivian-paley-as-teacher-researcher
Harvard University Press. (2019, August 15). Just a moment... Just a moment... https://harvardpress.typepad.com/hup_publicity/2019/08/remembering-vivian-gussin-paley.html
Paley, V. G. (1993). You can’t say you can’t play. Harvard University Press.
Thank You!
Ashley's
Cooper, P. M. (2005). Literacy learning and pedagogical purpose in Vivian Paley’s ‘storytelling curriculum’. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 5(3), 229-251. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468798405058686
Kirzeder and Braendel, C. (2019, August 1). Vivian Gussin Paley, renowned early education researcher and Laboratory Schools teacher, 1929–2019. UChicago News. https://news.uchicago.edu/story/vivian-gussin-paley-renowned-early-education-researcher-and-lab-teacher-1929-2019
Saucier, J. (2022, June 23). Remembering educator and play advocate Vivian Gussin Paley, 1929–2019. The Strong National Museum of Play. https://www.museumofplay.org/blog/remembering-educator-and-play-advocate-vivian-gussin-paley-1929-2019/
Seelye, K. (2019, August 1). Vivian Paley, Educator Who Promoted Storytelling, Dies at 90. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/education/vivian-paley-dead.html?smid=url-share
Mercedes
https://journals-sagepub-com.hanlib.idm.oclc.org/doi/abs/10.1177/1468798405058686
https://news.uchicago.edu/story/vivian-gussin-paley-renowned-early-education-researcher-and-lab-teacher-1929-2019#:~:text=Vivian%20Gussin%20Paley%20believed%20that,role%20in%20a%20child%27s%20growth.
https://www.naeyc.org/resources/pubs/vop/dec2019/understanding-vivian-paley-as-teacher-researcher