315: Elements of Grade 6: Over 250 full-color pages from main lesson
books and paintings illustrate
such subjects as Roman and Medieval History,
Astronomy, Physics, Mineralogy, and Geometric Drawing.
Eugene Schwartz's
week-by-week description of what is taught in main lesson blocks gives
helpful
background and a practical guide to this grade level. The play
Roma/Amor is also included on this
CD-ROM for Windows and for Mac.$17.50
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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