Table of Contents
Introduction : the need for story /Anne Haas Dyson, Celia Genishi --Connections between story, self, and others : why do we tell stories? Multiculturalism, community, and the arts /Maxine Greene --Life as narrative /Jerome Bruner --The power of personal storytelling in families and kindergartens /Peggy J. Miller, Robert A. Mehler --Ways with stories : whose stories are told? Whose stories are heard? Multicultural literature for children : towards a clarification of the concept /Mingshui Cai, Rudine Sims Bishop --What is sharing time for? /Courtney B. Cazden --"The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice" : African American student writers /Geneva Smitherman --Gender differences and symbolic imagination in the stories of four-year-olds /Ageliki Nicolopoulou, Barbara Scales, Jeff Weintraub --"And they lived happily ever after" : cultural storylines and the construction of gender /Pam Gilbert --Weaving communities through story : who are we? Princess Annabella and the black girls /Vivian Gussin Paley --"I'm gonna express myself" : the politics of story in the children's world /Anne Haas Dyson --"All the things that mattered" : stories written by teachers for children /Sal Vascellaro, Celia Genishi --The contribution of the preschool to a native American community /Susan J. Britsch --Stories as ways of acting together /Shirley Brice Heath --Writing as a foundation for transformative community in the Tenderloin /Carol E. Heller --Conclusion : fulfilling the need for story /Celia Genishi, Anne Haas Dyson.