Editorial
Crafts and art
Everyone knows it – school practitioners, educational theorists, brain researchers, indeed entrepreneurs confirm it: the “creative forces of aesthetics”, the “emotional boost of artistic expression” belong to the basic prerequisites of education. [more]
Publisher's View
Wake-up call
Recently, when watching an old film, I have occasionally got the feeling: “Hey, don’t you realise you’re much too close to each other and standing in too large groups? Why aren’t you paying attention?” Only then my brain gets into gear and explains to me that a) it is a historical film, i.e. made before March 2020, b) we are all still learners and therefore c) the last word has not been spoken as to where this madness begins and ends. [more]
Hand, Craft & Art
Wood, metal and stone
Wood, metal and stone not only require different tools but also quite different skills and states of mind. Humans and trees are connected through the breathing – their breathing corresponds with ours. But what the trees bequeath us, what they gift us and what we take from them is the hard, bony frame. [more]
Hand, Craft & Art
The art in practical work. Handwork lessons in Waldorf school
For those unfamiliar with Waldorf education, it possesses some strange features and handwork lessons are considered by some to be among them. Even the name alone! Where similar lessons exist in mainstream schools, they are mostly called “textile design” which somehow sounds more modern and demanding. But this fails to refer to the development and cultivation of manual dexterity which is intended with the handwork lessons at Waldorf schools. Furthermore, in “handwork” the latter half of the word reminds us of the perseverance which is required when workpieces are produced over the course of a whole school year. [more]
Hand, Craft & Art
Art education – a workshop report from upper school
Generally speaking, art is not compatible with industrial reproduction in the art lessons of the Waldorf school. The question is whether technically reproduced media – such as for example photography or video – can’t nevertheless be used creatively in school. [more]
Highly gifted
High-flyers also need flying lessons. The potential and problems of highly gifted children
High-flyers, nerds, misfits ... the list of names which highly gifted children are called is a long one. In early childhood they can easily be identified as high-flyers. But often they are thwarted in their urge to try things out and think them through. Subsequently when they start school, full of anticipation, they are brought to a halt again because then these children are told: wait! [more]
Highly gifted
Highly sensitive adolescents in psychotherapeutic practice
Julia Lichte is a body therapist using depth psychology (HAKOMI®) and trauma therapist in Lübeck. She has many years of experience accompanying highly sensitive people. [more]
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