ABSTRACT

In this chapter, Murray White describes his work with primary age children in raising self-esteem. In group work, which he calls 'Circle Time', the techniques required in this approach are described. Murray White received an award for the best educational idea in 1990 from the Institute of Social Inventions.

We create the societies we desire through our schools, but the societies we dream of and proclaim as ideal... are very rarely mirrored in the learning institutions to which we entrust our children. (Irwin, 1991)