Includes bibliographical references (pages [160]-161).
Contents
Dignifying the struggle : teachers as problem solvers -- Social curriculum : shared assumptions -- Ritual and real : developing language in a kindergarten classroom / Eileen Mariani -- Getting underneath : caring and sharing among fives and sixes / Arona McNeill-Vann -- Letting the spill grow : conflict resolution in a first grade / Linda Mathews -- Outer structures/inner supports : teaching respect to fourth and fifth graders / Cathy Jacques -- How are you going to unbore yourself? Active learning in the fifth grade / Colette Kaplan -- Moving the teacher's desk : democracy in a fifth/sixth grade / Dorothy McCaffrey.