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They Don't Like Me: Lessons on Bullying and Teasing from a Preschool Classroom
Contributor(s): Katch, Jane (Author)

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 ISBN: 0807023213     ISBN-13: 9780807023211
Publisher: Beacon Press
OUR PRICE: $13.30  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: August 2004
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Annotation: How we can teach children to fight the impulse to bully and give them the tools to resist bullying when it does occur
Jane Katch is a master teacher and wonderfully astute observer of the four- and five-year-olds in her preschool classroom. In her new book she investigates why so many young children, who are only newly aware of the existence of the group, immediately try to cement their place in it by keeping others out. As she takes us into the world of her classroom and shows us how her kids act and react, she comes to new understandings of why some kids bully and scapegoat, how other kids get through the experience, and how she as a teacher might intervene to help all children.
"If you want to understand the power dynamics of kids, if you want to know what teasing and bullying looks like in early elementary school, then you must read They Don't Like Me." --Michael Thompson, coauthor of Best Friends, Worst Enemies
"Jane Katch offers us a rare gift, the insider's view of her remarkable classroom as she and her children struggle to understand what is fair and just in the explosive arena of those who intimidate and those who feel intimidated . . . A vivid and honest narrative." --Vivian Gussin Paley, author of You Can't Say You Can't Play
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Education | Parent Participation
- Political Science
- Education | Administration - General
Dewey: 371.58
LCCN: 2003010498
Physical Information: 0.35" H x 5.4" W x 8.69" L (0.41 lbs) 133 pages
Features: Price on Product, Table of Contents
 
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In her new book, Jane Katch explores the painful problems of bullying, teasing, and exclusion. Why, she wonders, does a young child, just becoming aware of the existence of the group, feel such a strong need to keep another child out? And is it possible to teach children to create social groups that aren't defined by excluding others?

With her acute eye and deft pen, Katch watches her class of four- and five-year-olds begin to form exclusionary groups and tells us what happens as she tries to intervene. Talking with her brother, who teased her as a child; with high school kids; and, as always, with her class, Katch comes to new understandings of why some kids bully and scapegoat, how other kids get through the experience, and how she as a teacher might intervene. They Don't Like Me is at once a fascinating, absorbing look into the social lives of children and a book for teachers and parents who are trying to understand how to prevent exclusion and how to support children who are being teased and bullied.
 
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