Author: BRIEN MASTERS
Title: Steiner Education and Social Issues
Description: Rudolf Steiner Press, 2007. Paperback. Pp: 261. Is the philosophy by which we choose to educate our children responsible, at least partially, for the attitudes and general tone of our societies? A recent UNICEF report on wealthy countries ranked the United States and the United Kingdom at the bottom of a table that measures quality of life for young people across a wide range of headings, including poverty, health, drugs, friendships, and happiness. Experts observed that the nations that performed best in the survey have created "child-friendly" societies in which young people, for example, are not pressured to achieve academically until their teens. By contrast, the cultures of the US and UK are geared toward economic success, with education as a means of sifting-through increasing testing-the high achievers who will produce the goods. Brien Masters, an educationalist for more than 50 years, states that education has a central role to play "in bringing into human lives those qualities that can take us forward to a progressive future." He proposes that Rudolf Steiner's educational approach, as practiced mainly in the Waldorf schools around the world, is well equipped to enable this. In this book-through a series of short, engaging chapters and based on his broad personal experience of teaching and teacher training-Masters tackles a wide range of modern social issues, from drugs and nutrition to boredom, the influence of TV, and multiethnic societies. Steiner Education and Social Issues is a wise and informative guide for parents, teachers, and anybody interested in the future development of our culture. C O N T E N T S Introduction 1. Steiner: A Revolutionary in Education THE TEACHER: A FIFTH COMPONENT IN EDUCATION THEORY2. Curtain Raiser: Multiple Intelligences3. The Ego's "Three Sheaths"4. "Secrets of the World Streaming through in a Living Way"5. Extrapolating Standard Education Theory from Steiner's Oeuvre6. Initial Teacher Training and Ongoing Teacher Education7. Professional Meditative Practice8. Taking Another Lick at the Maths Lollipop9. A Milestone for the Ego10. The Psychology and Physiology of the Septennial Phases of Childhood CHILDREN AND TEACHERS11. "Rights of the Child"12. "Mood of the Fifth" and the Pentatonic Scale13. Burning the Midnight Oil14. Benefits and Hazards15. Waldorf Non-negotiables16. Literacy: Mere Decoding or a Gateway to Literature?17. Waldorf, the Arts and Culture18. The Instinct for Child-rearing and Pedagogical Instinct TEACHER-PUBIL, TEACHER-COLLEAGUE, TEACHER-PARENT RELATIONSHIPS19. Truth, Beauty, Goodness20. Dross and Gold in the Four Temperaments21. The Oft-ignored Ingredient in School Readiness22. Teacher-Pupil Pedagogical Relationships23. Will Activity24. Delegation and Collegiality25. Educational Terrorism? THE WIDER VISION (WELTMENSCH)26. Individual and Collegial Group27. What Happened to the European Conventions and Declarations.?28. Who You Meet Is What Counts29. The Adaptability of the Waldorf Curriculum30. Achieving Waldorf31. The Sense-perceptible World and Its Counterpart Epilogue: Education is LifesavingAppendix: Press Letter on Toxic ChildhoodIndex. ISBN: 9781855842007. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
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Title: Steiner Education and Social Issues
Description: Rudolf Steiner Press, 2007. Paperback. Pp: 261. Is the philosophy by which we choose to educate our children responsible, at least partially, for the attitudes and general tone of our societies? A recent UNICEF report on wealthy countries ranked the United States and the United Kingdom at the bottom of a table that measures quality of life for young people across a wide range of headings, including poverty, health, drugs, friendships, and happiness. Experts observed that the nations that performed best in the survey have created "child-friendly" societies in which young people, for example, are not pressured to achieve academically until their teens. By contrast, the cultures of the US and UK are geared toward economic success, with education as a means of sifting-through increasing testing-the high achievers who will produce the goods. Brien Masters, an educationalist for more than 50 years, states that education has a central role to play "in bringing into human lives those qualities that can take us forward to a progressive future." He proposes that Rudolf Steiner's educational approach, as practiced mainly in the Waldorf schools around the world, is well equipped to enable this. In this book-through a series of short, engaging chapters and based on his broad personal experience of teaching and teacher training-Masters tackles a wide range of modern social issues, from drugs and nutrition to boredom, the influence of TV, and multiethnic societies. Steiner Education and Social Issues is a wise and informative guide for parents, teachers, and anybody interested in the future development of our culture. C O N T E N T S Introduction 1. Steiner: A Revolutionary in Education THE TEACHER: A FIFTH COMPONENT IN EDUCATION THEORY2. Curtain Raiser: Multiple Intelligences3. The Ego's "Three Sheaths"4. "Secrets of the World Streaming through in a Living Way"5. Extrapolating Standard Education Theory from Steiner's Oeuvre6. Initial Teacher Training and Ongoing Teacher Education7. Professional Meditative Practice8. Taking Another Lick at the Maths Lollipop9. A Milestone for the Ego10. The Psychology and Physiology of the Septennial Phases of Childhood CHILDREN AND TEACHERS11. "Rights of the Child"12. "Mood of the Fifth" and the Pentatonic Scale13. Burning the Midnight Oil14. Benefits and Hazards15. Waldorf Non-negotiables16. Literacy: Mere Decoding or a Gateway to Literature?17. Waldorf, the Arts and Culture18. The Instinct for Child-rearing and Pedagogical Instinct TEACHER-PUBIL, TEACHER-COLLEAGUE, TEACHER-PARENT RELATIONSHIPS19. Truth, Beauty, Goodness20. Dross and Gold in the Four Temperaments21. The Oft-ignored Ingredient in School Readiness22. Teacher-Pupil Pedagogical Relationships23. Will Activity24. Delegation and Collegiality25. Educational Terrorism? THE WIDER VISION (WELTMENSCH)26. Individual and Collegial Group27. What Happened to the European Conventions and Declarations.?28. Who You Meet Is What Counts29. The Adaptability of the Waldorf Curriculum30. Achieving Waldorf31. The Sense-perceptible World and Its Counterpart Epilogue: Education is LifesavingAppendix: Press Letter on Toxic ChildhoodIndex. ISBN: 9781855842007. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9781855842007
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- Book number: 2543018
- Book number: 2543018
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