The teacher as temporal artist
Structuring a lesson is an art. The medium with which the creative teacher has to work is time. It can be compressed and stretched, knotted and undone. The harmonious relationship between both these things is what constitutes a significant part of the art of education, says Christof Wiechert, for many years a class teacher and former head of the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum. [more]
SLOW!
The credo of modern times is “more, bigger, faster”. This maxim for action has lost sight of the most important thing, the human being and nature. Yet resistance against such a development is stirring everywhere, be it in conscious protest or in the unconscious form of multiple disease symptoms. “Small is beautiful” has for a long time been the expression of this counter-movement. Today “Slow” stands as a symbol for a global movement which has taken hold in all fields of life. [more]
Publisher's View
Magic moments
Sacred moments sometimes occur in the life of a class. They cannot be summoned, planned or, least of all, held fast, but we can hold the door open for them and be vigilant that they don’t pass by unnoticed. What constitutes such sacred moments? [more]
Early childhood
What children wish for
Christmas is coming. Every year parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and godparents look for suitable presents. The toy industry is booming. Children are snowed under with toys and even if the pleasure is great at the beginning, many of them will soon lie abandoned – year after year – because only few toys are suitable for playing with. [more]
Living lessons
The spirit of Christmas
Why A Christmas Carol in class 8? Not only can the pupils identify with the transformation of the misanthrope Scrooge from Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol into a philanthropist but they can also learn skills which will serve them well into the future. [more]
Editorial
Making a friend of time
We mostly experience time as a constraint, an opponent whom we run up against each day: getting up, breakfast, to work, school or kindergarten, shopping, lunch, doctor’s appointment, treatment, hobby, evening meal, house work ... [more]
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