In Mrs. Tully's Room: A Childcare Portrait

By Vivian Gussin Paley

Book Overview

In Mrs. Tully's Room makes a quiet but powerful case for the pedagogical skill and psychological insight that childcare providers--so often underpaid and undervalued--can bring to their work. It also emphasizes how warm, quasi-familial, even mentoring relationships can develop between childcare providers and their preschool families.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674011163
• ISBN13: 9780674011168
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.7" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Paley does it again

This little story is a quick read. Having retired, Vivian Paley now tells the story of a school she visits and comes quickly to love. They are doing stories in the 2's class - which might involve just one word from a child. which is later lovingly acted out by the whole class. As an early childhood educator, I read Paley to get ideas and wisdom for my own classroom. But this is a book that parents could enjoy as well, and it should certainly let others know through the warmth and wisdom of the school what good early care should be!