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Under Deadman's Skin: Discovering the Meaning of Children's Violent Play

Name: Under Deadman's Skin: Discovering the Meaning of Children's Violent Play
Brand: Beacon Press
SKU: 9780807031292
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Contributors:

Jane Katch

Publisher:

Beacon Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Education, Social Science

Book Subcategory:

Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Behavioral Management, Children's Studies

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Release Date:

2/18/2002

ISBN 13:

9780807031292

Weight:

0.34 lbs

Size:

8.26 x 4.93 x 0.34 inches

Pages:

144

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The five-and six-year-olds in my class have invented a new game they call suicide. I have never seen a game I hate so much in which all the children involved are so happy.

So begins Under Deadman's Skin, a deceptively simple-and compellingly readable-teachers' tale. Jane Katch, in the tradition of Vivian Paley and Jonathan Kozol, uses her student's own vocabulary and storytelling to set the scene: a class of five-and six-year-olds obsessed with what is to their teacher hatefully violent fantasy play. Katch asks, 'Can I make a place in school for understanding these fantasies, instead of shutting them out?'

Over the course of the year she holds group discussions to determine what kind of play creates or calms turmoil; she illustrates (or rather the children illustrate) the phenomenon of very young children needing to make sense of exceptionally violent imagery; and she consults with older grade-school boys who remember what it was like to be obsessed by violence and tell Katch what she can do to help. Katch's classroom journey-one that leads her to rules and limits that keep children secure-is an enabling blueprint for any teacher or parent disturbed by violent children's play.

About the Author
Jane Katch is the author of Under Deadman's Skin: Discovering the Meaning of Children's Violent Play and and They Don't Like Me: Lessons on Bullying and Teasing from a Preschool Classroom. She is a regular contributor to Educational Leadership magazine. A veteran teacher, she counseled emotionally disturbed children with Bruno Bettelheim at the Orthogenic School and taught kindergarten with Vivian Paley at the University of Chicago Lab School. She now teaches young children at the Touchstone Community School in Grafton, Massachusetts, and lives in Connecticut with her family. Find her online at www.janekatch.com.

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