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St. Andrew's own Jeremy Harvey celebrates publication of new book

2 July 2006

Reader at St. Andrew's Jeremy Harvey has just published his new book "Valuing and Educating Young People - Stern Love the Lyward Way".

The subject of the book, George Lyward, had a gift for working with disturbed young people, and the therapeutic community he ran earned an international reputation for its success in rehabilitating adolescents who were excluded from school. Valuing and Educating Young People explains Lyward’s ideas on education and emotional development, and shows how his methods are relevant to contemporary practice.

Valuing and Educating Young People advocates learning through conversation and describes how education can be an enriching process that raises young people’s self-esteem if approached with patience and fun. It offers advice on providing discipline and maintaining control without overreacting to misbehaviour, and on how to establish an atmosphere of respect and encouragement.

Jeremy  shows how Lyward’s creative approaches offer valuable lessons for teachers trying to reach challenging students and for all professionals involved in groupwork with adolescents.  To quote Lywood: "We are concerned with providing security within which release and re-education can come to those who have pulled down the shutters on themselves or bitten society."

Jeremy's new book will shortly be available through local bookshops and can be ordered on-line from the publishers or from Amazon.co.uk. Jeremy's previous book "Marion Dunlop - Teacher and Healer" is also available.

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