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We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
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Cynthia Levinson
amaebi
, September 10, 2013
My eight-year-old son and I have been reading this together, rather slowly-- each section requires discussion and both political and emotional response. By introducing the perspectives of children of 1963 who participated in civil rights work in Birmingham, Levinson makes it easy for a child reader to identify with the activists of the time. (My son knows which child he's most like-- James. But he cares about them all.) The personal stories, many period photographs, and detailed accounts of the progress and frustrations of working to eliminate official segregation make for a tough, moving story that is to be particularly celebrated this year, and that remains unfortunately relevant.
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You Cant Say You Cant Play
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Vivian Gussin Paley
amaebi
, August 04, 2012
I love reading Vivian Gussin Paley's books about her work with kindergarten and preschool children-- precisely because she works with them, and provides illuminating, accessible accounts of their cognitive and social dynamics. This book recounts a year's classroom experience with a new rule: children were not allowed to exclude others from play. The simplicity of motivation for the experiment and the complexity of how it played out-- and how teacher Paley observed and thought about it-- offers insight into children, adults, and societies. We're too horribly ready to think of rules as simple solutions to social problems without considering that they are, instead, structures people optimizie around in pursuit of their own objectives. Like the uneven bars or pommel horse of a gymnast. No wonder Paley was made a MacSrthur Fellow.
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