Taking children seriously – applications of counselling and therapy in education

This book points out the relationship between emotions and intellect, between feeling and thinking, and between all these and behaviour. It emphasises a need for educationalists to recognise the potential for feelings to contribute to enriched learning experiences, and for the capacity of emotional factors to disrupt, block or destroy the pupils ability to learn. Circle Time is cited as an approach which takes children and teachers seriously as emotional beings. (Decker S, Kirby S, Greenwood A, Moore D. 1999)