Phases of Childhood: Growing in Body, Soul and Spirit
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Holistic child development: body, soul, spirit synergy.
If you're passionate about education that nurtures the whole child, "Phases of Childhood" could resonate deeply with you. It's not just a book; it's a philosophy that challenges mainstream, materialistic approaches to learning. Lievegoed's perspectives, influenced by Steiner and grounded in the idea of aligning education with a child’s natural development, offer practical insights for crafting a learning environment that honors the physical, emotional, and spiritual stages of growth. It's an enlightening read that might change how you perceive childhood education.
Phases of Childhood: Growing in Body, Soul and Spirit
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ISBN: 9780863154812
Publisher: Floris Books
Date of Publication: 2005-07-15
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.86
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How can education work in harmony with a child's developing relationship with the world around it? Bernard Lievegoed takes a child's full humanity -- body, soul and spirit -- as his starting point. From this, a philosophy and pedagogy emerge in which, he argues, children can become happy, wise and skilled adults only when education takes the development of these three aspects into account from the very beginning. Drawing on the educational ideas of Rudolf Steiner, and on a philosophical tradition going back to Goethe and Schiller, Lievegoed turns away from the materialist 19th-century notion of 'knowledge is power' which still pervades mainstream education today. He describes the three main stages of child development -- pre-school, schoolchild and teenager -- in a clear and concise way. Lievegoed shows that each stage of roughly seven years has its own character, and its own genetic and biographical potential. The author goes on to explore the practical application of these insights as an education method in harmony with the child's developing relationship with the world around them.
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