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Touch in Schools
A revolutionary approach to
replace bullying by respect
and to reduce violence
Sylvie Hétu & Mia Elmsäter
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Price: $14.99
Paperback | 200 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9736659-1-8 |
Summary
Touch in Schools illustrates how the widespread embedding of positive touch and movement in school curricula, and into school activities more generally, is contributing to a revolutionary sea change across the globe in young children’s emotional well-being. When schoolchildren shoot and kill other children, adults must take collective responsibility for what is merely a symptom of a much deeper malaise increasingly afflicting children in modern culture. Dramatic symptoms of a global crisis in Western schooling systems include more children developing mental illness, burgeoning child and teenage suicides, and record dropout rates. The program presented in this book (the Massage in Schools Programme, or MISP) involves the simple form of children massaging each other, and gives children a welcome opportunity to connect with each other in a playful, naturalistic way that cultivates the living empathy that is so gravely missing in today’s increasingly narcissistic culture.
About the Authors
Sylvie Htu (BSc in education, Montreal University) is trained as a kindergarten and elementary school teacher and a Steiner teacher, and has worked in day care, and in primary and secondary schools. Mia Elmster has run a Montessori day care center. Both are members of the International Association of Infant Massage Executive Education Committee, and have worked with that association for over twenty-five years teaching hundreds of families the art of communication with nurturing touch. They have both worked as international trainers for that association in several countries around the world. The book Touch in Schools is their contribution to the world to help children experience healthy touch every day within their family setting and at schools.
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