Research Catalog

Title

Under deadman's skin : discovering the meaning of children's violent play / Jane Katch ; introduction by Vivian Gussin Paley.

Author

Katch, Jane

Publication

Boston : Beacon Press, ©2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

Paley, Vivian Gussin, 1929-2019.

Description

xi, 131 pages; 23 cm

Summary

A educational approach to helping children in elementary school understand their violent tendencies and urges through role and frank self-examination.

Subject

• Children and violence
• Violence in children
• Social groups
• Enfant violent
• Enfant
• Violence
• Jeu de rôle

Note

• "Beacon Press books are published under the auspices of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The suicide game -- Murderer -- Rated R -- The party -- Runaways -- Obsessed -- Reserved -- He knows I know he knows -- The F-word -- Anaconda -- Vulnerable bad guys, electric fences, and poisonous snakes -- A vulnerable writer -- Strangled -- The rules of violence -- Girls! -- The white ninja -- The shooting game -- Hippo and baboon -- Bottled up -- Baba yaga -- Forgiveness -- Keeping calm -- Half bulldog, half chihuahua -- Exorcising the exorcist -- Tortured -- Mama's little baby -- Puppy power -- The baby business -- The finger -- The car race -- A cold duckling, a school shooting, and a home for a dead butterfly -- Placing blame -- Empathy -- A big, big teacher.

ISBN

• 0807031283
• 9780807031285
• 0807031291
• 9780807031292

LCCN

00009583

OCLC

• ocm44612889
• 44612889
• SCSB-1200121

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library