Quick Look
Explores how teachers and parents together can form a supporting, cooperative circle for children. Addresses issues of consumerism, play, media and sports.
Description
Parents and grandparents face new and increasing challenges in their roles as children's caregivers. This book explores how both school and home together can form a supporting, cooperative circle which holds children safe and warm in the world.
Poplawski describes the developmental stages of children and explains the concepts behind many Steiner-Waldorf educational practices.
This will be a useful and thought-provoking book for anyone working with or caring for children.
Topics include:
Taming the Media Monster
The Power of Play
Toys Are Not Us: Escaping from the Maw of Consumerism
Children and Sports - Finding a Balance
Etheric? Astral? Ego? An Esoteric View of the Human Being and Its Value in the Education of the Child
Paradise Lost: The Nine-Year Change
The Four Temperaments
Watching Your Temper(ament)
Author
Thomas Poplawski has been a staff writer for Renewal: A Journal of Waldorf Education for over 12 years. He has trained as both a eurythmist and a psychotherapist. He is the author of Eurythmy: Rhythm, Dance and Soul (Floris Books). He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
