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  • The Ambiguity of Play

    From the Pilgrims who settled at Plymouth Rock to Christian Coalition canvassers working for George W. Bush, Americans have long sought to integrate faith with politics. Few have been as successful as Hollywood evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. During the years between the two world wars, McPherson was the most flamboyant and controversial minister in the United States. She built an enormously ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • The Folkstories of Children

    Series series Publications of the American Folklore Society
    What prompts children to tell stories? What does the word "story" mean to a child at two or five years of age? The Folkstories of Children, first published in 1981, features nearly five hundred stories that were volunteered by fifty children between the ages of two and ten and transcribed word for word. The stories are organized chronologically by the age of the teller, revealing the progression ... Leer más

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  • Recess Battles

    Playing, Fighting, and Storytelling

    Winner of the Opie Prize from the Children’s Folklore Section of the American Folklore SocietyAs children wrestle with culture through their games, recess itself has become a battleground for the control of children's time. Based on dozens of interviews and the observation of over a thousand children in a racially integrated, working-class public school, Recess Battles is a moving reflection of ... Leer más

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  • Jump-rope Rhymes

    A Dictionary

    Edición de Roger D. Abrahams ...
    Series series American Folklore Society Bibliographical and Special Series
    I had a little brother.His name was Tiny Tim.I put him in the bathtubTo teach him how to swim.He drank all the water.He ate all the soap.He died last nightWith a bubble in his throat.Jump-rope rhymes, chanted to maintain the rhythm of the game, have other, equally entertaining uses:You can dispatch bothersome younger siblings instantly—and temporarily.You can learn the name of your boyfriend ... Leer más

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  • Sibling Relationships

    their Nature and Significance Across the Lifespan

    First published in 1982. Since the emergence of developmental psychology early this century, theorists and researchers have emphasized the family’s role in shaping the child’s emergent social style, personality, and cognitive competence. In so doing, however, psychologists have implicitly adopted a fairly idiosyncratic definition of the family— one that focuses almost exclusively on parents and ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Recess Battles

    Playing, Fighting, and Storytelling

    As children wrestle with culture through their games, recess itself has become a battleground for the control of children's time. Based on dozens of interviews and the observation of over a thousand children in a racially integrated, working-class public school, Recess Battles is a moving reflection of urban childhood at the turn of the millennium. The book debunks myths about recess violence and ... Leer más

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  • The Folkstories of Children

    Series series Publications of the American Folklore Society
    What prompts children to tell stories? What does the word "story" mean to a child at two or five years of age? The Folkstories of Children, first published in 1981, features nearly five hundred stories that were volunteered by fifty children between the ages of two and ten and transcribed word for word. The stories are organized chronologically by the age of the teller, revealing the progression ... Leer más

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  • Children's Folklore

    A SourceBook

    A groundbreaking collection of essays on a hitherto underexplored subject that challenges the existing stereotypical views of the trivial and innocent nature of children's culture, this work reveals for the first time the artistic and complex interactions among children. Based on research of scholars from such diverse fields as American studies, anthropology, education, folklore, psychology, and ... Leer más

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    Essays toward a Hopeful Theory of Writing and Teaching Writing

    de Peter Elbow ...
    With Writing without Teachers (OUP 1975) and Writing with Power (OUP 1995) Peter Elbow revolutionized the teaching of writing. His process method--and its now commonplace "free writing" techniques--liberated generations of students and teachers from the emphasis on formal principles of grammar that had dominated composition pedagogy. This new collection of essays brings together the best of Elbow ... Leer más

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  • Caught in Play

    How Entertainment Works on You

    Most of us have become so immersed in a book or game or movie that the activity temporarily assumed a profound significance and the outside world began to fade. Although we are likely to enjoy these experiences in the realm of entertainment, we rarely think about what effect they might be having on us. Precisely because it is so pervasive, entertainment is difficult to understand and even to talk ... Leer más

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  • Life and Narrative

    The Risks and Responsibilities of Storying Experience

    Series series Explorations in Narrative Psychology
    The challenge of life and literary narrative is the central and perennial mystery of how people encounter, manage, and inhabit a self and a world of their own - and others' - creations. With a nod to the eminent scholar and psychologist Jerome Bruner, Life and Narrative: The Risks and Responsibilities of Storying Experience explores the circulation of meaning between experience and the recounting ... Leer más

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