The Spiritual Ground Of Education

Author : Rudolf Steiner
Publisher : SteinerBooks
ISBN 13 : 9780880105132
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spiritual Ground of Education written by Rudolf Steiner and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 2004 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 9 lectures, Oxford, England, August 16-29, 1922 (CW 305) These lectures follow from those presented in Soul Economy. Given during a conference on spiritual values in education and life and attended by many prominent people of the time, Steiner's Oxford lectures present the principles of Waldorf education at the highest cultural level. The Manchester Guardian reported: "Dr. Steiner's lectures...brought to us in a very vivid way an ideal of humanity in education. He spoke to us about teachers who, freely and unitedly, unrestricted by external prescription, develop their educational methods exclusively out of a thorough knowledge of human nature. He spoke to us about a kind of knowledge needed by the teacher, a knowledge of the being of man and the world, which is at the same time scientific and also penetrates into the most intimate inner life, which is intuitive and artistic." These lectures form one of the best introductions to Waldorf education. Contents: Introduction by Christopher Bamford The Spiritual Ground of Education The Perception of Soul and Spirit The Spiritual Ground of Physical Education The Art of Educating Young Children The Art of Educating Older Boys and Girls Teachers As Artists in Education The Organization of the Waldorf School Moral Teaching & Eurythmy in the Waldorf School Teachers in the Waldorf School German source: Die geistig-seelischen Grundkr fte der Erziehungskunst. Spirituelle Werte in Erziehung und sozialem Leben (GA 305).

Author : Rudolf Steiner
Publisher : SteinerBooks
ISBN 13 : 0880108541
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spiritual Ground of Education written by Rudolf Steiner and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Through the introduction by Michael Howard and Steiner's ten lectures, this volume offers an account of the sources and purposes of art, as well as a particularly helpful approach to art as a spiritual practice. So, far from being dated, Steiner's account of art and its relation to spiritual experience is at least contemporary and probably ahead of its time. As this book ably shows, Steiner's insights concerning art, particularly when approached and practiced as a spiritual activity, might be exactly what art, artists, and contemporary culture urgently need." --Robert McDermott (from the foreword) Seeing his task as the renewal of the lost unity of science, art, and religion, Rudolf Steiner created in the worldview he called Anthroposophy a new, cognitive scientific and religious art, the implications of which--recognized by such divergent artists as Wassily Kandinsky and Joseph Beuys--are only now becoming fully apparent. Art as Spiritual Activity includes a comprehensive, thought-provoking introduction of more than a hundred pages by Michael Howard, who writes: "The most fundamental issue for arts today...is the spiritual foundation of arts.... Steiner demonstrates that our individual creative activity is not solely a personal affair. Our creations do not originate out of nowhere, nor solely out of ourselves, but from an objective world of spirit with which we are intimately related in the depths of our being. He shows that our creations have significance beyond ourselves and beyond the recognition they receive: works of art are vehicles of spiritual qualities. In bringing these spiritual qualities into the sphere of human life, the artist becomes responsible for the spiritual effects the work of art has on the artist, other people, and ultimately on human evolution." Art as Spiritual Activity introduces a new way of thinking about, looking at, and creating art.

Author : Rudolf Steiner
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Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Ground of Education written by Rudolf Steiner and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Spiritual Ground of Education written by Rudolf Steiner and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Fentress Gardner
Publisher : SteinerBooks
ISBN 13 : 9780880104395
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education in Search of the Spirit written by John Fentress Gardner and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 1996 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real education will always seek to strengthen what is best in the human soul: its longing for the experience of spiritual truth that brings into the self an objective appreciation of the noble aspects of its own nature, together with a subjective sense of real affinity with the rest of humanity, the earth planet as a whole, and the great cosmos above and beyond. The premise of this book is that a human being is a being of body, soul, and spirit, whose core is "eternal spirit," from which center one should strive to live. From this perspective, the aim of true education is to help our children activate this deepest center in themselves. For this, living, intuitive thinking must be brought to life in a new way. The organ for such thinking is the heart, where will and feeling join in uniting self and world, morality and truth, love and action. This book is in three parts. The first poses the problem; the second describes the Waldorf approach as a solution; and the third deals with questions of special interest to parents and educators alike, such as authority, discipline, and freedom; the nature of "genius"; and the question of cultural pluralism. The first edition of this book was titled "The Experience of Knowledge" in response to a clear call for experience in education. Certainly, if the sole purpose of education is to acquire information, learning becomes dry, abstract, and deadening. To have meaningful consequence in a person's life, "coming to know" must become an experience. Too often, however, such experience is understood simply as doing -- field trips, class projects, and so on. But "doing," if unconnected to the whole person, is just activity. To become true experience, it must speak out of, and toward, a student's secret center: the spirit. Hence, the author affirms that authentic education is always in search of the spirit.

Author : John P. Miller
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791483762
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holistic Learning and Spirituality in Education written by John P. Miller and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Holistic Learning and Spirituality in Education, scholars from around the globe address the theory, practice, and poetics of holistic education. Some of the topics explored include educating the soul; partnership education; nourishing adolescents' spirituality; education and the modern assault on being human; the Eros of teaching; personal creativity as soul work; pedagogies of compassion; and meditation, masculinity, and meaningful life.

Author : John P. Miller
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791443422
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education and the Soul written by John P. Miller and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With emphasis on preparing students for jobs, standards, and achievement testing, many think that North American education has become inwardly deadening, yet this book provides a counterbalance as it offers a way to nurture the soul in classrooms and schools.

Author : Richard J. S. Blunt
Publisher : Novalis Press (ZA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waldorf Education written by Richard J. S. Blunt and published by Novalis Press (ZA). This book was released on 1995 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thorough primer on Waldorf education provides the reader with a complete and easily accessible introduction to Rudolf Steiner and Waldorf educational theory. Beginning with a short biography of Steiner and a review of his writings and the various works about him, the author goes on to discuss Steiner's concept of Man, and his ideas regarding the stages of development and their implications for education. At this point, Blunt undertakes a dear analysis of the Waldorf system including its aims, principles, and methods. Here he discusses the training of Waldorf teachers, the various subjects and how they are approached, and ends with a description of how an average Waldorf school operates on each class level.This is a wonderful introduction to the entire Waldorf process for anyone thinking about enrolling their child in one of the schools or for anyone merely interested in the Waldorf system of education.

Author : Dudley Plunkett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351042483
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secular and Spiritual Values written by Dudley Plunkett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1990, educational debate in the western world was dominated by pragmatic, utilitarian values. The prevailing assumption was that education should be geared towards fitting people into the world of work. Dudley Plunkett broke new ground in this debate by seeking to reconcile secular and spiritual values in educational policy and practice. Secular and Spiritual Values presents a critique of the influence of enterprise culture on education. It argues that the resurgence of interest in the spiritual today represents a return to an essential aspect of human nature, and maintains that the spiritual perspective can provide a context for the regeneration of values in education. It indicates a way forward which, while not denying pragmatism, rationalism or holistic values, calls for openness to a spiritual reality that is seen as primary. It also assesses the practical implications and priorities for action if education is to contribute to the exploration of the spiritual as well as the intellectual and emotional dimensions of human experience. This book has grown out of the author’s twenty-five years’ experience in educational studies, and from his particular preoccupation with values in education. It should still be of interest to those concerned with the nature and purpose of education: teachers, parents, educational policy-makers and administrators and academics in the field.

Author : Rudolf Steiner
Publisher : Health Research Books
ISBN 13 : 9780787308223
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Man's Life on Earth and in the Spiritual Worlds written by Rudolf Steiner and published by Health Research Books. This book was released on 1960 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: