'Solving the Riddle of the Child ...': The Art of Child Study - Softcover

Wiechert, Christof

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3723515274 ISBN 13: 9783723515273

Verlag: Verlag am Goetheanum, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

It may be a truism to say that every teacher should make efforts to understand his pupils. Our real understanding, after all, can be a sure foundation and support for children’s whole development; and without this our lessons will be a random undertaking that connects with our pupils, at best, in a superficial way only. A skilled teacher seeks to understand his pupils so that he can raise learning beyond mere compulsion or drill. It was Rudolf Steiner’s ideal that the weekly pedagogical meetings in Waldorf schools should support teachers’ continually developing insight into their pupils. He exhorted them to ‘become psychologists’ but did not mean this in the commonly understood sense. He himself demonstrated this ‘art of evolving insight’ in the faculty meetings in which he participated on many occasions. One can say that it is an essential part of the quality of our work as teachers for us to develop these skills of perception, reflection and insight. Christof Wiechert here picks up these suggestions of Steiner’s anew. He elaborates from them the art of the child study as a key tool in nurturing pupils development and, at the same time, teachers’ own growing powers of insight. In short the approach described here can enliven the educational and social dimensions of a whole school community.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Christof Wiechert was born in The Hague and studied education and geography, and worked for thrity years as a Waldorf teacher in The Hague. He co-founded the Waldorf teacher seminar in the Netherlands and is a board member of the Anthroposophical Society in the Netherlands. From 1999 to 2010, he was head of the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum, and remains active for the Free University at the Goetheanum. Christof dedicates himself to pedagogical and anthroposophic topics at home and abroad. He is married and has five children.

Matthew Barton is a translator, editor, teacher, and poet, and taught kindergarten for many years at the Bristol Waldorf School. His first collection of poems was Learning To Row (1999). He has won numerous prizes for his work, including an Arts Council Writer's Award and a Hawthornden Fellowship.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Verlag am Goetheanum
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3723515274
• ISBN 13: 9783723515273
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232
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