{"product_id":"under-deadmans-skin-discovering-the-meaning-of-childrens-violent-play","title":"Under Deadman's Skin: Discovering the Meaning of Children's Violent Play","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo begins \u003ci\u003eUnder Deadman's Skin\u003c\/i\u003e, 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?'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJane Katch\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Beacon Press\u003cbr\u003eFebruary 2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9780807031292\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 0807031291\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Golden Leaf Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48663960027351,"sku":"3106","price":7.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0825\/6159\/7655\/files\/PXL-20250105_232530392_2.jpg?v=1779716103","url":"https:\/\/txvx2c-sy.myshopify.com\/products\/under-deadmans-skin-discovering-the-meaning-of-childrens-violent-play","provider":"My Store 2","version":"1.0","type":"link"}