Happily Ever Resilient: Using Fairy Tales to Nurture Children through Adversity - Softcover

Goloway, Stephanie

 
9781605547442: Happily Ever Resilient: Using Fairy Tales to Nurture Children through Adversity
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1605547441 ISBN 13: 9781605547442
Publisher: Redleaf Press, 2022

Synopsis

All children deserve the tools to fight off whatever dragons they encounter and move happily through life.

In Happily Ever Resilient Dr. Stephanie Goloway uses current trauma research and beloved multicultural variants of classic children’s fairytales to create joyful, playful learning experiences for young children.

Part one of the book covers why using fairytales in early childhood classrooms supports resilience and literacy in all children, especially important for children who have experienced trauma and toxic stress, including those living with family substance use disorders. Part two covers how to do this. Each chapter includes

  • Story Magic: information about the fairytale and its multicultural variants, how the story connects with the protective factors of resilience, and suggestions for storytelling and storyacting

  • Caring Magic: activities that help children make connections with each other and adults in their lives, related to the story

  • Doing Magic: suggestions for adapting classroom learning centers to support children’s engagement with both the fairytale and resilience, along with projects that promote initiative and executive functions

  • Superpower Magic: activities, songs, and games related to the story that foster self-regulation as well as ways the story can be used to support calm, integrated transitions and routines

    • By tapping into the extraordinary magic of fairytales early childhood educators can create the ordinary magic of resilience.

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    About the Author

    Stephanie Goloway is a lifelong advocate for the power of the imagination, play, and storytelling. She is a professor emeritus of early education and child development at the Community College of Allegheny County in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr. Goloway holds an EdD in Early Childhood from Walden University.

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    Publisher
    Redleaf Press
    Publication date
    2022
    Language
    English
    ISBN 10 
    1605547441
    ISBN 13 
    9781605547442
    Binding
    Paperback
    Number of pages
    160