Balance in teaching : Stuttgart September 15-22, 1920 and October 15-16, 1923 / Rudolf Steiner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steiner, Rudolf, 1861-1925.

Series:

Collected works of Rudolf Steiner ; 302a.

Collected works of Rudolf Steiner ; 302a

Foundations of Waldorf education ; 11

Standardized Title:

Erziehung und Unterricht aus Menschenerkenntnis. Selections. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Steiner, Rudolf, 1861-1925.

Steiner, Rudolf.

Waldorf method of education.

Anthroposophy.

Physical Description:

xvii, 116 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Great Barrington, MA : Steiner Books, [2007]

Summary:

Apollo and Dionysus embody polar complementary forces that work in opposite ways to develop the child and young adult, but they also help teachers educate children to grow into strong and, above all, healthy human beings. Rudolf Steiner describes how children first come into the world primarily under the radiant formative guidance of Apollo; but already in the early years, and certainly by the second dentition, the turbulent stirrings of Dionysus begin to arise in these increasingly independent young human beings. The central task of teachers is to permit these alternating forces to play themselves out in the developing children and adolescents without overwhelming them. How to do this?

This question stands at the heart of two series of lectures that Rudolf Steiner gave towards the end of his life for teachers at the original Waldorf school in Stuttgart, Germany. The first set was given as follow-up to an intense two-week teacher education course that Steiner had offered these teachers just before the school opened in 1919. In a series of four lectures given a year later, in September 1920, Steiner described the polar opposite forces that work on the developing child and spelled out in rare detail how teachers could use the curriculum to balance these forces. The second set, held just over three years later, in October of 1923, focused more on the historically changing mission of the teacher- from Greek gymnast and Roman rhetorician to modern professor- and laid out the need for teachers to collaborate more intimately with the medical profession in the healthy unfolding of youth.

Contents:

Part 1 Balance in Teaching

Lecture 1 The Educational Task of Central Europe: Stuttgart, September 15, 1920 1

Lecture 2 The Three Fundamental Forces in Education: Stuttgart, September 16, 1920 14

Lecture 3 Supersensible Physiology in Education: Stuttgart, September 21, 1920 30

Lecture 4 Balance in Teaching: Stuttgart, September 22, 1920 43

Part 2 Deeper Insights into Education

Lecture 1 Gymnast, Rhetorician, Professor: A Living Synthesis: Stuttgart, October 15, 1923 65

Lecture 2 Forces Leading to Health and Illness in Education: Stuttgart, October 16, 1923, Afternoon 80

Lecture 3 A Comprehensive Knowledge of the Human Being as the Source of Imagination in the Teacher: Stuttgart, October 16, 1923, Evening 94

The Foundations of Waldorf Education 107

Rudolf Steiner's Lectures and Writings on Education 108.

Notes:

Two series of lectures, originally published separately.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [108]-109) and index.

ISBN:

9780880105514

0880105518

OCLC:

165477945