Will Developed Intelligence: Handwork & Practical Arts in a Waldorf School

Livingston, Patricia; Mitchell, David

ISBN 10: 1936367904 / ISBN 13: 9781936367900

Verlag: Waldorf Publications, 2016

Beschreibung

Light cover wear, text is unmarked.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 250530035

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Will Developed Intelligence: Handwork & Practical Arts in a Waldorf School
• Verlag: Waldorf Publications
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1936367904
• ISBN-13: 9781936367900
• Einband: paperback
• Zustand: Very Good
• Gewicht: 37 Unzen

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Inhaltsangabe

Handwork cultivates many admirable and positive results in developing human beings – even those already set! Brain research demonstrates repeatedly that handwork stimulates brain development, a multiplicity of neurons, and lights up almost the entire brain. Psychologists indicate that handwork generates inner peace and equilibrium. Students repeatedly testify that the skills they learn and their pride in the results of their handwork and beyond compare. All of these beneficial results lead to capacity and clarity in thinking. Logical thought is demonstrated in handwork. Design is required in handwork; decisions about how to use the results of handwork are demanding in the best of ways. Waldorf Education integrated handwork, woodwork, blacksmithing, basket making, stained glass window making, furniture making, and more handcrafts and practical arts into its curriculum from the beginning of the approach of Waldorf Education in 1919. Many rich aspects of human capacity and skill lie dormant or, worse, simply atrophy from lack of use in each human being. These skills exercised from early grade through high school stimulate an impressive level of thinking. This book carefully describes the handwork and practical arts curriculum in a Waldorf school, the remarkable results in the products and artifacts made, and the student handworkers' thinking creativity.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

David Mitchell was a Waldorf teacher for 35 years. Latterly he was Chair of Publications for the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America (AWSNA). He died in 2012.

Patricia Livingston taught handwork for 27 years at the Rudolf Steiner School in New York City. Now retired, she lives near Great Barrington, Massachusetts.