Let the children sing / Leonora Langley.

Lewes, East Sussex : Book Guild, 2004.

x, 212 pages ; 23 cm

Includes index.

Cover illustration by Michele Angelo Petrone.

Copy 1. Donor: MAP Foundation.

Pt. 1. Introduction: a vision statement explaining how we need 'to give a voice to the millions of children whose feelings are being ignored and their emotions stifled at home and at school' -- The pre-school years: the importance of parenting in relation to children's emotional development -- Education today: how our education system currently deals with children's feelings and emotions -- A future for education: ways in which the education system needs to be transformed to help children access their feelings and emotions more readily -- Pt. 2. Feeling the way ahead: a compilation of exclusive interviews with children's services, children, parents, teachers, classroom assistants, headteachers, university professors, educationists, educational psychologists and psychotherapists on how we might better enable young people to gain more fulfilment and enjoyment from their home lives and school environments in relation to greater awareness of emotional development and the nurturing of feelings -- Useful organisations.