num_pages: 288
description: 14 lectures, Basel, April 20-May 16, 1920 (CW 301)  Following a lecture of November 27, 1919 requested by the Basel Department of Education, sixty members of the audience invited Rudolf Steiner to return and deliver a complete lecture course on his approach to education. These lectures are the result. Rudolf Steiner begins by outlining the gradual development of the child with the help of spiritual forces and enlightened educational practices, which form the basis for Steiner's approach to education. He describes the problems that modern educators face and provides practical solutions. Steiner explains the effects of morality on real freedom and how the development of a child's will leads to a free, flexible ability to think. He describes the life-long effects that teachers have on children through the ways they teach in the early grades. The subjects of these lectures cover a broad range, from the threefold nature of the human being to the teacher's responsibility toward their students' future; from arts such as music and eurythmy to the problems involved in training teachers; from zoology and botany to language, geography, and history. Like many of Steiner's lectures to public audiences, these are accessible and practical and provide a real overview to his ideas for renewing modern education. C O N T E N T S : Foreword by Eugene Schwartz 1. Spiritual Science and Modern Education2. Three Aspects of the Human Being3. Understanding the Human A Foundation for Education4. The Teacher as Sculptor of the Human soul5. Some Remarks about Curriculum6. Teaching Eurythmy, Music, Drawing, and Language7. The Problem of Teacher Training8. Teaching Zoology and Botany to Children Nine through Twelve9. Dialect and Standard Language10. Synthesis and Analysis in Human Nature and Education11. Rhythm in Education12. Teaching History and Geography13. Children’s Play14. Further Perspectives and Answers to Questions AppendicesNotesIndex This book is a translation of tge German edition, Die Erneuerung der pädagogisch-didaktischen Kunst durch Geisteswissenschaft , Rudolf Steiner–Nachlassverwaltung, 1977.
language: English
title: The Renewal of Education: Lectures Delivered in Basel, Switzerland, April 20-May 16, 1920
titlecomplete: The Renewal of Education: Lectures Delivered in Basel, Switzerland, April 20-May 16, 1920 (Foundations of Waldorf Education, No. 9)
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publisher: Anthroposophic Press