PARENT STUDY GROUP
Steiner Education: More than Colour and Craft
Join Linda Mayer, our College Chair, and Primary School Coordinator Cathy Jones, on Fridays from 9.15am to 10.15am, to read and discuss Rudolf Steiner's The Kingdom of Childhood, and deepen your understanding of how and why we teach the way we do at Shearwater.
We hope to expand these meetings to embrace creative activities, as well considering how we can bring Steiner's indications to life in our contemporary times, in the context of our classrooms and in family life, so that we can work together in harmony.
The Parent Study Group meets in the little music room that was previously the craft and gift shop, near the entrance to the School.
We hope to expand these meetings to embrace creative activities, as well considering how we can bring Steiner's indications to life in our contemporary times, in the context of our classrooms and in family life, so that we can work together in harmony.
The Parent Study Group meets in the little music room that was previously the craft and gift shop, near the entrance to the School.
The Kingdom of Childhood is a series of lectures by Rudolf Steiner Steiner, given in 1924 to a group of pioneers dedicated to opening a new Waldorf school in England. The talks, in which Steiner presents the idea of the three seven-year periods of child development and gives many classroom examples, are often considered one of the best introductions to Waldorf/Steiner education.
These talks are filled with practical illustrations and revolve around certain themes — the need for observation in teachers; the importance of not stressing the intellect too early; children's need for teaching that is concrete and pictorial; the education of children's souls through wonder and reverence; the importance of first presenting the ‘whole,’ then the parts, to the children's imagination.
Courtesy of The Rudolf Steiner Archive
These talks are filled with practical illustrations and revolve around certain themes — the need for observation in teachers; the importance of not stressing the intellect too early; children's need for teaching that is concrete and pictorial; the education of children's souls through wonder and reverence; the importance of first presenting the ‘whole,’ then the parts, to the children's imagination.
Courtesy of The Rudolf Steiner Archive