Encountering the self
Subtitle: transformation & destiny in the ninth year
By: Hermann Koepke ; translated by Jesse Darrell.
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press; Steiner Books
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Hudson, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118
Subjects: Waldorf method of education.; Child development.; Education -- Philosophy.
Description: Provides a lucid explanation of the events happening in the life of a child between the ninth and tenth years. This is the time when the child's ego incarnates more deeply. As a result, children at that age often experience themselves for the first time as separate individuals, different from their parents and peers, and essentially alone. As Koepke points out, this inner experience is often accompanied by a first encounter with death in the child's environment, a first inkling that life is fragile and does not go on forever.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Translation of: Das neunte Lebensjahr.