Review

Sandtray Play and Storymaking

By Sheila Dorothy Smith (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 15.99, ISBN 9781849052054)

This book suggests that it is not training that teachers need to introduce sandtray play into their repertoire of classroom tools but a 'conscious attitude of receptivity to the child'. The author uses psychological insights to outline how sandplay can build academic, social and emotional skills in a wide range of settings, and how it can also be a profoundly therapeutic process.

Chapters outline particular workshops linked to building, telling, listening and writing, and approach each subject from a theoretical and practical viewpoint.

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