A practical text for teachers working with young children, written by the author of "Personality Assessment Through Movement". The book recognizes the concern within today's education system for teaching children how to use their bodies.

Teaching children how to use their bodies is a central concern of any good system of education today, and not just in the particular context of physical education, but across a whole range of other activities within the school. Illustrated throughout with photographs, this book provides the in-service or student teacher with practical guidance to this whole larger field of "Movement Education" and its considerable potential for child development and assessment. It includes a set of compositions (story outlines, rituals, mimes, dramas) which the teacher can use as a basis for work with young children.

What is movement education?
movement lessons in schools
the art-of-movement lesson in the junior school
introduction to the compositions
duo compositions
compositions for young infants
ritual composition
educational and therapeutic use of movement
movement characteristics and personality traits
movement assessments
examples of students work.