Playful Education

Using Play Therapy Strategies to Elevate Your Classroom

Dee C. Ray

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781032254128
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000790887
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Classroom Management

Playful Education provides a guide for you to activate the powers of play to boost your teaching practices and increase your effectiveness as an educator. Based on Virginia Axline and Garry Landreth's play therapy, this book is an operational and practical guide on using play therapy to strengthen your holistic learning development and relationships with students. Chapters offer practical responsive interventions for children with behavioral and academic challenges and preventative practices. You will learn the purpose and goals of implementing play times, (i.e., PlayBreaks), with individuals and groups of students, skills necessary to facilitate playtimes, and how to transfer play skills to the larger classroom. Educators will learn the foundations of play therapy and how they can be used to guide play within a classroom setting. Expanding beyond the classroom, this book is loaded with playful activities to enhance child-teacher relationships and integrate play throughout the school.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• The Child, The Teacher, and Play: An Introduction
• PART I
• Play Therapy and the Role of Play in the Schools
• 1 What Is Play Therapy and What Does It Have to Do with Schools?
• 2 The Power of Play in the Holistic Learning and Development of Children
• 3 Play and Development
• 4 Play and Self-Regulation
• 5 Play and Social Relationships
• PART II
• Activating the Powers of Play Between Teacher and Child: The PlayBreak
• 6 Bringing Together the Powers of Play to Activate Learning
• 7 The PlayBreak: A Special Playtime
• 8 The PlayBreak Attitudes
• 9 The PlayBreak Skills
• 10 Putting It All Together: The PlayBreak in Action
• 11 The Power of the PlayBreak: Case Study
• PART III
• Moving Play into the Classroom and School Culture
• 12 Transferring the PlayBreak Skills into the Classroom
• 13 Integrating Play in School Culture: Building Partnerships with Parents, Teachers, and Administrators