Essential Conferences for Summer, 2007
Articles: -Handwork and Intellectual Development -----ADHD: A Challenge of Our Time -The Cry for Myth -Freedom of Choice or Freedom From Choice? -Computers in Education -Helping Your Child's Teacher Communicate
Grade Seven
Lectures on Audio CD
Images on CD-ROM
| 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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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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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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117: Coming to Our
Senses: Computers in Education
As the century ends, educators are increasingly looking to technological
solutions for a host of problems in our schools. In spite of limited
research and less positive evidence, computers in particular are being
adapted for a wide variety of classroom tasks. TV and movies, on the other
hand, provide an educational experience for millions of children that runs
parallel to their formal schooling. Eugene asks whether there are other ways
to enrich education and bring joy into learning. Do the risks of
"techno-pedagogy" outweigh the short-term excitement that it generates? Is
"virtual reality" a substitute for the real thing? $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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