Susan C Engel

Real Kids: Creating Meaning in Everyday Life

The Stories Children Tell : Making Sense of the Narratives of Childhood

Context Is Everything : The Nature of Memory

Stories Children Tell : Making Sense of the Narratives of Children

Context Is Everything : The Nature of Memory

Context Is Everything: The Nature of Memory

Red Flags or Red Herrings?: Predicting Who Your Child Will Become

Take the worry out of parenting… These days, parenthood and anxiety seem to go hand in hand, especially given that it’s harder than ever to raise happy, well-adjusted kids in our complicated world. And all parents long to figure out just who their child will become when he or she grows up. But with ...

The Stories Children Tell: Making Sense of the Narratives of Childhood

In this work, a developmental psychologist examines the methods and meanings of children's narratives. Engel explores: the different functions of the storytelling process; the way the storytelling process changes as the child grows older; the different types of stories children tell; and the develop...

Anne of Green Gables (BBC Children's Classics)

Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert have sent to the orphanage for a boy. So when a skinny, red-haired girl turns up, she is not quite what they had in mind. Anne Shirley soon sets the quiet island community of Avonlea talking of little else. With her incessant chatter and intense imagination, things are n...

Boys and Girls: Superheroes in the Doll Corner

With the publication of Boys and Girls in 1984, Vivian Gussin Paley took readers inside a kindergarten classroom to show them how boys and girls play—and how, by playing and fantasizing in different ways, they work through complicated notions of gender roles and identity. The children’s own conversa...

Context is Everything: The Nature of Memory

This informative and engaging book explores how factors such as the place, company, purpose and situation can profoundly affect the essence and experience of a memory. Blending vivid anecdotes with the startling findings of memory research, Engel examines the implications of context and purpose for ...

The End of the Rainbow: How Educating for Happiness (Not Money) Would Transform Our Schools

Amid the hype of Race to the Top, online experiments such as Khan Academy, and bestselling books like The Sandbox Investment, we seem to have drawn a line that leads from nursery school along a purely economic route, with money as the final stop. But what price do we all pay for the singular focus o...

The Stories Children Tell: Making Sense of the Narratives of Children

In this work, a developmental psychologist examines the methods and meanings of children's narratives. Engel explores: the different functions of the storytelling process; the way the storytelling process changes as the child grows older; the different types of stories children tell; and the develop...

A School of Our Own: The Story of the First Student-Run High School and a New Vision for American Education

A School of Our Own tells the remarkable story of the Independent Project, the first student-run high school in America. Founder Samuel Levin, a high school junior who had already achieved international fame for creating Project Sprout—the first farm-to-school lunch program in the United States—was...