Dawn Mannay

This is the essential guide to the innovative qualitative research technique of sandboxing. Originating from play therapy, sandboxing enables children, young people and adults to create three-dimensional scenes using miniature figures and everyday objects in a sand-filled tray. Creating these sand scenes offers opportunities for individuals and groups to reflect on and represent memories, everyday experiences and ideas about the...

Co-authored by an international team of experts across disciplines, this important book is one of the first to demonstrate the enormous benefit creative methods offer for education research. You do not have to be an artist to be creative, and Creative Research Methods in Education encourages students, researchers, and practitioners to discover and consider new ways to explore the field...