Seminar One of the CRSE at Taruna

Seminar One: 

• Exploring the Anthroposophical foundations of Rudolf Steiner Waldorf Education. What does it mean to be human? What/who are we educating for? Education of the whole child. Life as a journey of development.

• The incarnating child, a broad overview from birth to 21, unfolding capacities, a developmentally responsive curriculum.

• Steiner’s pictures of the three-fold and four-fold human being, the soul faculties of thinking, feeling and willing.

• Self-development of the teacher.

• Meeting the world through the senses.

• Particular focus on the early childhood environment, the kindergarten years. Walking, speaking, thinking. Development of the will, the child as a sense being, the importance of play, of rhythm and of imitation. Understanding children’s drawings. Visit to a local Waldorf kindergarten.

Activities include a selection of:

Morning Circle activities, games, movement, singing, eurythmy, te reo Māori, painting, drawing, modelling, crafts, storytelling, speech, poetry, observation exercises.

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