Solving the Riddle of the Child, 詩書坊

NT$980

Solving the Riddle of the Child

Solving the Riddle of the Child
作者

Christy MacKaye Barnes 

中文說明   
英文說明

The Art of Child Study
It may be a truism to say that every teacher should make efforts to understand his pupils.
Our real understanding, after all, can be a sure foundation and support for children’s
whole development; and without this, our lessons will be a random undertaking that
connects with our pupils, at best, in a superficial way only. A skilled teacher seeks to
understand his pupils so that he can raise learning beyond mere compulsion or drill.
It was Rudolf Steiner’s ideal that the weekly pedagogical meetings in Waldorf schools
should support teachers’ continually developing insight into their pupils. He exhorted
them to ‘become psychologists’ but did not mean this in the commonly understood
sense. He demonstrated this ‘art of evolving insight’ in the faculty meetings in which
he participated on many occasions. One can say that it is an essential part of the quality
of our work as teachers for us to develop these skills of perception, reflection, and insight.
Christof Wiechert here picks up these suggestions of Steiner’s anew. He elaborates from
them the art of the child study as a key tool in nurturing pupils development and, at the
same time, teachers’ growing powers of insight. In short, the approach described here
can enliven the educational and social dimensions of a whole school community.

Book Review

The very essence of Waldorf education lives in the Child Study. Observing
the children is primary task of every Waldorf teacher. The entire curriculum
should be formed out of this child observation practice and new organs of
perception are developed from this practice. This is why Rudolf Steiner was
so insistent about administration being done by those who are with the
children every day, not by others who have nothing directly to do with
teaching the children. The real revolution lives in this open secret of Waldorf
education: that the observation of children is the heart of the curriculum…
Not the subjects listed nor the dictates of those outside a particular group
of children about what “every child should know.”

Christof Wiechert’s book, Solving the Riddle of the Child: the Art of the
Child Study
 addresses this truth, this open secret with elegance and
comprehensive clarity. Every Waldorf school faculty should take the book
up as a study at some point along their development together!

A child study is a technique unique to Waldorf schools that has the child
become the focus of observation on the part of the whole faculty. A faculty
meeting then devotes itself to lining up observations about the child’s
physical organization and appearance, the child’s behavior in class, and
with other children, and as a learner, and also how the child is in his or her
own world – likes and dislikes, social ease, imaginative abilities, willingness
to learn and to work. Then the faculty lives with the questions that the child
prompts out of these observations. If it is possible, some ideas of what can
be done to help and harmonize the child’s experience in school and in the
world come forward as a plan on the child’s behalf.

Rather than giving a formula for approaching a study of a child, Wiechert
describes three different phases of the study. He cautions against jumping
to conclusions too quickly, applying what we know about another child to
this new child, and avoiding the puzzle that every child presents. He instructs
that the discomfort that we feel with the mystery of each child is the very portal
through which we must walk as teachers to find the essence of each child and
to cultivate our own capacities of perception.

All the grace of Christof Wiechert’s many years of experience shine through
the pages of this book. He provides us with a challenge and a procedure to
use to meet that challenge. The challenge is in itself the very same as that of
Waldorf education. The call of Rudolf Steiner to formulate a new approach
to education lives in this work of child study. That the child instructs and that
teachers follow with ideas that are informed by life experience is the lodestar
of all that is new, all that constitutes a genuine revolution, in Waldorf education.

Wiechert’s masterful style of explaining his ideas and observation make this
an invaluable tool for any teacher, any faculty, any parent. In our times when
children are giving consistent signals that something is terribly wrong about
our way of reaching them – the mainstream barrage of information, technology,
stimuli, speed, etc. – the answers that live in the care given to a child in a
well-done collaboratively approached child study holds solutions that defy
the modern world. Wiechert defines through the procedures he explains the
very core of the slogan “Receive the Child in Reverence.” What could be
more reverent than to allow child to be displaying symptoms of his or her
discomfort, instead being annoying and “resisting” learning the way we
say it ought to be done?

The artistically organized book starts with the history of Steiner’s work in
the Waldorf school, developing the curriculum he was asked to develop by
the enlightened industrialist, Emil Molt. Molt understood after WWI that
something new needed to be done to make a future that supported human
beings instead of destroying them. Steiner was enthusiastic about the call.

Wiechert then describes the basis on which the child study is set and then
describes how it can be done, in three phases. He explains the points of
discomfort that inevitably come in a teacher’s even asking for help
through child study, “Because sending the child out of class is not a
permanent solution…” or “ because the teacher feels that she is not
addressing the child’s true problem…” or “the teacher is asking for
help in addressing the child’s headstrong will.” The very humility
required as a teacher to state help is needed and to ask colleagues
for support for a child, addresses the nature of collegial work as a new
idea in Waldorf education. To admit to feeling stuck with the riddle of
one child or another is to create new opportunities for the whole
teaching faculty to learn. Identifying the points of discomfort as necessary
in the process liberates us all from the usual social norms of “saving face”
through admitting what we do not know. Of course, every child remains
a riddle to all who care for the child. How to “read” the child’s
symptoms with love and attentive interest is the task!

At the end of the book the author gives a small but comprehensive
bouquet of examples of actual child studies and those that had instant
results and those that continue to shroud the child’s symptoms in
mystery. These examples are very helpful and clear.

Every teacher should read Christof Wiechert’s book: class teachers,
specialty teachers, therapeutic support teachers, tutors, coaches, and
parents too! It is refreshing to be reminded of the true nature of the
child, of education, of our teaching. Christof Wiechert’s book does
all these things expertly and with compassion. His artistic skill as
cultivator of a full concept, as a story teller, as a teacher, make this
a remarkably accessible and helpful training tool for any teacher to
better understand the task of child observation and child study.
The seminal nature of the child and the study of the child are
perfectly underscored in this masterful work.

頁數 224頁
備註  ISBN :978-3-7235-1527-3
評論

品牌
快速尋找
 
使用關鍵詞尋找您想要的產品.
進階搜尋
2 x 靈性科學入門
1 x 我是你-華德福教育學的兒童研討會
1 x 華德福教師教學手冊
2 x Grandfather Twilight(黃昏爺爺)
1 x 運命
2 x The Donkey's Dream(驢子的夢)
2 x 能量醫療
1 x 色彩精靈
1 x 華德福學校一二年級的數學課
1 x 病是教養出來的 3 : 十二感官之初階感官
1 x 一到四年級華德福幾何學教育的形線畫
1 x 聆聽中的人 從醫學談音樂實質
1 x 找回自己內在的醫生
1 x 玩,也能學好數學
1 x 社會理解及全觀性別與性教育
1 x 異位性皮膚炎,21世紀流行病的真相與治療
1 x 華德福學校三年級的數學課
1 x 新世紀農耕
2 x 十二感官:應用篇
1 x 簡單父母經:現代父母養育子女必備經典
1 x 超越生死門
1 x 悅樂樂:音樂的重要性
1 x 糖-嗜甜成癮
1 x 人學
1 x Play On ! 直笛、其他管樂器 在華德福音樂教育的運用
1 x 病是教養出來的 1:孩子的四種氣質
1 x 心魂週曆圖卡版
1 x 為孩子說故事
1 x 以靈性指引社群建造
1 x 人如何動?
1 x 兒童的發展(MC-003)
1 x 兒童健康指南-零至十八歲的身心靈發展
1 x 性別、愛與伴侶關係
1 x BD學者Dennis Klocek談BD(B-306)
2 x 生命傳記:建立個人傳記或故事敍寫的練習本
1 x 人智醫學及其療癒方法
1 x 清潔--照顧空間與人的需要
1 x 在宇宙韻律裡耕種 - 日月星辰與根葉花果籽
1 x 讓孩子與數學真實相遇 / 華德福數學課程
1 x 人類與動物的研究-四至六年級主課程(BC-144)
1 x 如何穫得更高世界之認知?(簡)(精裝本)
1 x 心連心.親子情
1 x 植物研究手冊(BC-189)(繁體)
1 x When the Sun Rose(當太陽像玫瑰一樣昇起)
1 x 命中註定的疾病 / 我的病和我有什麼關係?
1 x 聽星星在唱歌
1 x 華德福教育創始人魯道夫‧史坦納論教育
1 x 探索聽覺教育之路-華德福音樂課程及養成之路
1 x 探索樸門:超越永續的原則與道路
1 x 找到內在的平衡--人智學心魂鍛鍊20個練習
1 x 精神健康中醫講堂:心身醫學與形、氣、神的自我調理精要
1 x 華德福經典童書.Jakob Streit 系列 樂普頭 : 小地精與妖精的故事
2 x 超大雪人(H-005-BSNT)
1 x 囡仔詩系列 /台灣水果童謠
1 x 華德福經典童書03蜜蜂書:小康瑞和爺爺一起天然養蜂的故事
1 x 金屬/穿帶器
1 x 找到內在的平衡--人智學心魂鍛鍊20個練習(套組)
1 x 宇宙織錦 /雜誌/ 01(B-101)
1 x 黑檀木手縫針收納筒
1 x 囝仔詩系列 /台灣節日童謠
1 x 數學也可以這樣學
1 x 限時特價 精靈娃娃材料包(組)
1 x Enlarge Physical Education and Movement in Waldorf Schools Enlar
1 x 聖誔樹 /中(片)(H-008-12)
1 x 優律思美所孕育的身心靈
1 x 聖誕限定組合(雪人+樹)(H-005-ALL)
1 x 枕頭娃娃材料包(H-083)
1 x 數學也可以這樣學2:跟大自然學幾何
1 x 請讓我慢慢長大
1 x 木輪子/組 (兩個)(H-008-25)
2 x 特大木人-Extra Large(W-006)
2 x 巨大燈塔(木)(W-009)
2 x Discussions With Teachers
2 x 木質線軸(大)(H-038)
3 x 大木人#20(W-001)
1 x 超值優惠/鐘紡毛海系列 6623 (捲)(wool-045)
1 x 大木人(組) /25入(W-001-1)
1 x 特惠 / 紐西蘭 專業羊毛針/ B組
1 x 迷你木人(Tot Peg Doll)-#1009(W-007)
2 x Serendipity(含運另外寄)
2 x 木人-家庭組(H-005-FM)
2 x 人智學醫療系統(B-104)
2 x 進口娃娃頭髮(捲髮款)(50G)(H-016)
2 x 戴帽木人I(H-008-6)
1 x 一個美好的蛻變 魯道夫·史代納如何觀照人生的第三個七年
1 x 宇宙織錦 /雜誌/ 02(B-102)
1 x 特惠 /迷你橡樹木人組 / (10入)(W-008)
1 x 木杯子II -Wood Bean Cups(H-008-5)
1 x 香菇組合/7件(H-008-22A)
NT$31,450
分享產品
Share via E-Mail