Essential Conferences for Summer, 2007
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Grade Six
Lectures on Audio CD
Images on CD-ROM
| 206: The Waldorf Home Companion, Grades Five and Six Topics covered include: The study of History and the harmonization of the child; the karma of the teacher, parents, and children; natural science and laboratory science; lawfulness and individuality. $17.50 |
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201: Adolescence
Along with Betty Staley's book Between Form and Freedom, Eugene Schwartz's Adolescence: The Search for the Self is regarded as one of the classic books on the teenage years by a Waldorf teacher. Because the book has been out of print for several years, Eugene presents its contents in this reading, which is accompanied by 5 pages of charts, diagrams, and student illustrations. $17.50
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116: History in the
Waldorf School, a CD-ROM
Illustrated with many pages from student main lesson books, this CD-ROM provides a comprehensive survey of the history classes taught in the Waldorf school from grades five through eight. Eugene’s commentary places the study of history in the broader context of the Lower School curriculum. Requires MS PowerPoint 97 or later to view. $17.50
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200: Science in the Waldorf School: Grades 4 – 8
is a “virtual student exhibition” which embodies the full range of science teaching in the elementary school years. Over 230 pages from main lesson books, accompanied by thousands of words of explanation and commentary by Eugene Schwartz, appear in vivid color on 170 PowerPoint “slides.” These slides may be viewed on an individual computer screen, or, like photographic slides, they may be projected on a screen to be viewed by an audience. $17.50
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126: Meeting the Middle School Challenge Asked by AWSNA to follow up on the concerns he had expressed ten years ago in his lecture The Sixth Grade Crisis, Eugene Schwartz presents a cogent critique of Waldorf practice in the twenty-first century. Eugene discusses the overemphasis on “brain-bound” research in the Waldorf movement and the slavish emphasis on “credit points” and “requirements” in the teacher training institutes. As an antidote to homework and tests, Eugene provides some stimulating insights into the teacher’s karma with her students and parents, and suggests soul-filled approach to the middle school years. $17.50
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119: Religion in the Waldorf School Jewish, Buddhist and Sufi families are inextricably linked with Waldorf schools in North America, argues Eugene Schwartz, and yet the Christian orientation of Waldorf education creates a tension that underlies the American Waldorf movement. Can we better understand this bond, and thereby effect a "creative tension" that may serve as a model for an increasingly pluralistic worldwide Waldorf school culture? $17.50 |
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114: How Waldorf
Education Meets the Needs of Adolescence
As everyone knows today, adolescents have strong personal opinions and are not interested in receiving guidance from adults; they express their uniqueness and individuality through their clothes, body piercing or tattooing, and they are biologically programmed to eagerly explore the mysteries of sexuality. Right? Wrong! This lecture explores these misconceptions and a number of other "modern myths about adolescence." These surprising insights may prove to be thought-provoking, and perhaps liberating, to parents and teachers of adolescents. $17.50
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212: Phases of Life From Age 7 to 14 In these important years, the respiratory and circulatory systems come into balance, and the etheric and physical bodies strive for harmony. As the power of memory and the feeling for beauty develop, the child is increasingly open to the powers of education, and dreaminess slowly gives way to more awakened perception. $17.50 | |
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121: Anthroposophy and Christianity, Part Two: Christianity on Earth Themes include: the relationship of lower-ranking hierarchical beings to the "gods" of ancient paganism, and the special role of the ancient Israelites in developing monotheism. Among the topics covered in this comprehensive lecture are: the nature of Jesus of Nazareth as described in Steiner's Gospel studies; the role of sacrifice and renunciation in world evolution; the old Mysteries and the new approach to the spiritual world, and what it means to call a Waldorf school "Christian." $17.50 | |
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325: Christianity as History: Grade 6 Main Lessons on the Life of Jesus of Nazareth Shortly before he was to teach the segment of Roman History dealing with the life and death of Jesus of Nazareth, Eugene Schwartz received a phone call from a parent whose sixth grader had grown seriously ill and was likely to miss the next several days of school. Would Eugene be willing to record the main lessons he taught on this important and controversial subject? Eugene agreed, and the recording of several days of main lessons, which includes questions (and comments!) by a decidedly pluralistic group of sixth graders, makes for a unique CD. This recording is especially helpful for any teacher about to embark on this subject On three CDs: $25.00
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