Dynamic Play and Creative Movement: Powering Body and Brain

Author(s) : Judith Peck

Dynamic Play and Creative Movement: Powering Body and Brain

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2022
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 234
  • Category :
    Expressive Arts Therapies
  • Catalogue No : 96861
  • ISBN 13 : 9781032184944
  • ISBN 10 : 9781032184

Reviews and Endorsements

"Dynamic Play and Creative Movement is timely, enlivening, and creative. It will show teachers, parents, school administrators, school boards, and those who teach teachers how a classroom can come alive— even as deeper learning becomes accessible. This is indeed exciting." - Beate Becker, MA, MS, BC-DMT, PA, CMA, SEP, LMHC.

"I believe this book to be on the leading edge of a growing field—of dance or movement therapy—which can serve important needs for postsecondary faculty teaching education and special education courses. Elementary school teachers, social workers, paraprofessionals, clinicians, and special education teachers looking to add these action-oriented concepts and methods into their curricula and classrooms would benefit, as well as parents hoping to stimulate maximum brain development in their children." - Mary C. Starke, professor of Clinical Psychology, Ramapo College of New Jersey.

"Judith Peck, Ed.D beautifully brings to life the inherent qualities in all children: energy, imagination, movement and creativity. The mind is never independent of the physical body. In this book Judith demonstrates how movement and creative expression are essential for learning and brain development." - Jean Seibel, MA, LCAT, BC-DMT, visiting professor Pratt Institute Graduate Dance Therapy Program.

"Dancers and footballers have to move to think. They think by moving. And so do children. In this much needed antidote to sedentary education, Judith Peck guides us skillfully through the research behind this claim, and the many benefits which movement bestows on children's intellectual as well as physical development. So, teachers, get moving!" - Guy Claxton, author of Intelligence in the Flesh.

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