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Books
A full list of educational resources is currently held at the STAT office.

 Primary Schoolchildren And The Alexander Technique.

A booklet written by Sue Merry

For Alexander Teachers, classroom teachers and parents who are interested in the Alexander Technique in primary education. This is a low-cost, home published, 48 page A5 booklet. It covers working with the AT with a class of primary school children. It discusses common classroom problems e.g. furniture. Also contains lots of practical ideas for activities with children and includes a teaching story (the adventures of Terry Tall and Digby Down!) Can be used with groups and/or individuals. This book has sold many copies world wide and helped many AT teachers to find a way to start to work with young children. Once this current print-run is exhausted it will no longer be available in this format. It costs £5.00 + £1.50 p&p Call Sue on Tel: 020 8546 7790 Also now available from AlexTech Books: http://at-ffm.de/books/ATBOOKS080.htm 

The Labyrinth of Gar

A book for children by Sue Merry

This book started out as an AT teaching story for 7 to 12 year olds at Educare. I read/wrote one or two chapters a week. Finally I have had it published. It is a 185 page paperback illustrated by Amy Merry www.amymerry.com with additional illustrations by the children of Educare Small School. It is an adventure story which relates the adventures of three children in a strange, magical and very dangerous land. It introduces the principles of the Alexander Technique in a fun way. It can be used as a teaching aid to help to teach the AT to junior school children or given to a child as a read alone book. You can also learn how to draw a labyrinth! This beautifully produced self-published book is now available from AlexTech Books: http://at-ffm.de/books/1905059159.htm

Moving To Learn

A book by Michele Arsenault

A classroom guide to understanding and using good body mechanics. I have been given a copy and have found it very helpful. Michele went into a primary school in the USA and then worked out from scratch how she was going to teach the AT in that context. 

She has taken a different path to myself, adopting a more science-based approach. Her introduction to the book was an extraordinary thing for me to read as she seems to have travelled on a very similar journey to myself. She went from having no experience of teaching children, through realising the particular problems connected with working in a school environment, to finding her own ways of dealing with these problems. The blurb on the back cover describes the book thus:

"Moving To Learn is a full-year program of learning activities adaptable for grades K-8. A uniquely innovative science curriculum, MTL leads children through an elementary investigation of the physical laws governing all structures and motion. Children are highly motivated to learn about themselves and discovering how their bodies are capable of standing upright and moving with ease offers an ideal context for science and learning.

In Moving To Learn, the child's own body serves as a research laboratory in the branch of physics called mechanics, which deals with the analysis of forces on matter. In studying force, mass, balance and related concepts in terms of their own structure and movement, children gain not only the knowledge and outlook of science but also direct practice in using their bodies efficiently.

The materials were originally developed for use by Alexander Technique teachers, but the classroom teacher, health and body-use educators through the college level will find many activities that are easily brought into existing science curricula."
The Moving To Learn Society, Inc. can be contacted at: 4246 Peachtree Rd. NE, Suite 6, Atlanta, GA 30319  Tel: USA (770) 454-117. I think the only way to get a copy of this book now is via the above address. It used to be available from STAT books, but they no longer exist.

DVD
The Little School Remembered

 - Erika Whittaker interviewed by Sue Merry and Angelo Cinque

The Little School was the unofficial name for Irene Tasker's and F.M. Alexander's school for children, which ran first at Ashley Place and later, with Margaret Goldie, at Penhill . Although Erika did not teach at the school, she helped on occasion. She was associated with the school from the age of 16 until she finished her training in 1934. Recorded in June 2000.
[ 40 mins VHS PAL] £19.95.  Also now available on DVD from:

david reed media

Links

The Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (STAT)

Information on the Technique plus a full list of teachers and links to international, affiliated organisations.

The Complete Guide to the Alexander Technique  USA website run by Robert Rickover has lots of information including articles about the AT and children.

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