Toward Wholeness

by Richards, Mary Caroline

• ISBN13: 9780819560629
• ISBN10: 0819560626
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1980-07-01
• Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr

Summary

For Rudolf Steiner, life can be truly understood only if it is experienced as art is experienced, as inner activities expressed through physical materials. On this ground of the union of inner experience and sensory life, he developed his unique, holistic approach to education. Richards views Steiner schools as expressing a new educational consciousness appropriate for our time, a "grammar of interconnections" among scientific observational, artistic imagination, religious reverence, and practical activity in which every part bears a deep connection.

Author Biography

MARY CAROLINE RICHARDS is a potter, teacher, and poet. She received her doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, and has been a member of the faculty at the universities of California and Chicago, Black Mountain College, and the City College of New York, She is the author of Centering: in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person and The Crossing Point Selected Talks and Writings, both published by Wesleyan.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction to Rudolf Steiner and the Author's Approach	3	(19)
Introduction to Waldorf Schooling in America	22	(20)
The Education of the Child: A Spiritual Anatomy and Basic Text	42	(21)
To Feel the Whole in Every Part: Education As an Art	63	(18)
Teacher Training and Handwork	81	(21)
More on Curriculum/Methods/Teachers/Children	102	(19)
Camphill in America: Mental Handicap and a New Social Impulse	121	(25)
Education and Community: A School of Life and a Reschooling of Society	146	(10)
Waldorf Education and New Age Religious Consciousness	156	(14)
The Teacher	170	(9)
Transformation	179	(11)
Conclusion: Steps Toward a New Culture	190	(5)
Appendix 1 Directory of Waldorf Schools, Institutes, and Adult Education Centers	195	(4)
Appendix 2 A Brief Chronology of Rudolf Steiner's Life and Works	199	(4)
Bibliography	203