Sandtray Play in Education [Paperback]

This is a manual for training teachers in the Sandtray Play in Education method. It introduces a holistic approach to childhood education that returns the child's natural medium of creative play to the learning environment. Sadly, most approaches to contemporary childhood education are not successful in teaching children the riches of language and numbers and the capacities to think, inquire and create. We are failing our children by not designing educational curricula that is appropriate to the learning styles of children.This is a manual for training teachers in the Sandtray Play in Education method. It introduces a holistic approach to childhood education that returns the child's natural medium of creative play to the learning environment. The book is the collaboration of learning specialist Kristin Unnsteinsdottir and Barbara Turner, Sandplay psychotherapist.Barbara Turner, PhD, is a psychotherapist specializing in Jungian Sandplay Therapy. Dr. Turner has made extensive inquiry in the the Sandplay therapy method and has authored a number of books on the subject, including the well-known, Handbook of Sandplay Therapy. Dr. Turner teaches Sandplay psychotherapy to mental health clinicians around the world. Kristin Unnsteinsdottir, PhD, works as the Learning Specialist at a small grammar school in Reykjavik, Iceland, where she helps children with their learning difficulties.