316: Elements of GradeSeven: Over 450 full-color pages from main lesson
books and paintings
illustrate such subjects as Late Medieval and
Renaissance History, Physiology, Chemistry,
Physics, Algebra, and
Perspective 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. This is a CD-ROM for Windows and for Mac
OS-X and higher.
$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
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
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
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 thereal thing? $17.50
