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This book features a comprehensive examination of the parent - teacher relationship in all its dimensions, from parent evenings and conferences to communication, conflict, and the life-cycle of parent involvement in their school. In between the chapters on practical advice are sections that consider the issues from a deeper, spiritual dimension. This book is intended to stimulate conversation, self-reflection, and relational practices that awaken community life in and around our schools. ________________________________________  \"The world of parent - teacher relations has grown more complex over the years and at its worst can feel like a minefield. Torin de-mines and demystifies the experience with information, insights, stories, and warmth, creating a safe passage for teachers and parents.\"  - Joan Almon, Waldorf educator and cofounder of Alliance for Childhood  \"Readers of my books will appreciate Torin's approach to parent - teacher relations. He looks at the key issues through various lenses and gives both practical and spiritual advice to all who seek to build healthy relationships around our school-age children. I highly recommend this new book!\"  - Thomas Moore, bestselling author of Care of the Soul  \"What Torin has so sensitively crafted here will give you greater simplicity and spaciousness in school community life. I highly recommend this book to all parents and teachers, but especially to those connected to Waldorf schools.\"  - Kim John Payne, M.Ed., author of Simplicity Parenting and Beyond Winning  \"This book is a call for parents and teachers to work more effectively together on behalf of our children. Torin uses a variety of approaches to stimulate conversation and help us strengthen the communities around our schools. 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During this time, according to Rudolf Steiner, \"all the forces of a child's organization emanate from the neurosensory system. . . . By bringing respiration into harmony with neurosensory activity, we draw the spirit-soul element into the child's physical life.\"    Peter Selg investigates how children's early experience of the world begins as an undifferentiated sensory relationship to their phenomenological environment. This aspect of a child's incarnation leads to leaning through imitation and to the process of recognizing \"the Other\" as a separate entity with which to interact.    In this cogent work, Peter Selg describes the early stages of childhood from the perspectives of conventional scientific and spiritual-scientific-- anthropological and anthroposophic--research with the purpose of encouraging a new educational attitude in working with young children. In his numerous references to early childhood development, this was Rudolf Steiner's most important and urgent purpose.            CHAPTERS    1. The Incarnation Process in the First Seven Years 2. The Imitation Process: \"Like an Eye that Touches\" 3. The \"Other\" as Active Opposite Counterpart 4. Education: The Challenge and the Approach  Appendix: Imitation and Life before Birth           \"Steiner directed attention to the special character of the senses in childhood, particularly in the first few years of life. Through their senses, children are fully exposed to (and to some extent at the mercy of) objects and people around them.... In many of his lectures, especially those dealing with education and developmental physiology, Rudolf Steiner emphasized that the anthropology of early childhood must not only recognize the child as a 'comprehensive' or 'universal' sense organ, but must also give that recognition top priority in any consideration of what is involved in the child's life and experiences. 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These deep connections with life are woven together during childhood to become the wholeness we call \"I.\"   Each chapter offers ideas for bringing this new science and these time-honored ways into the home and classroom. Parents, educators, and everyone who has ever loved and cared for a child will find research, humor, wisdom, and a new paradigm that marries ageless wisdom with the new science of the human brain and heart.   CONTENTS:    How to Use This Book   PART ONE   Introduction: The Science of Connection 1. Gentle Ways and Hard Science for the Early Years 2. The Love Connection 3. The Nature Connection 4. The Spiritual Connection   PART TWO   Introduction: The Science of Childhood 5. Exploring Self and the World through the Senses 6. Making Sense of Self and the World through Movement 7. Art and Stories: Tools to Imagine the Self 8. 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Parables use comparison, allegory, imagery, analogy, or a short story to convey a larger meaning.\" (from the book)   Torin Finser writes that parables involve \"looking down\" (or out) to find an often-overlooked object, and then \"looking up\" to the eternal truth that can be brought down to children. How can we do both? Can we teach our children to see not only what is on the desks before them, but also what surrounds them in nature and in circles above them in the starry heavens and beyond? Parables may help us!           CONTENTS:    Preface  What is a Parable?  Why Parables?  Objective and Subjective  Parables and Nature  Some Examples  Forming a Parable  In Praise of Science  Another Way  The Unknown  Parables and Time  Parables through the Season  Parables and Self-development of the Teacher  Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43414782771245,"sku":"9781621482307","price":23.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/1298\/2317\/files\/9781621482307.jpg?v=1782626064"},{"product_id":"9781621482376","title":"Commentary on Rudolf Steiner's Agriculture Course","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn these eight lectures, Dr. Scharff offers a profound overview of biodynamic methods, including the philosophy and esoteric foundations, as well as the most practical matters. In lecture 5, for example, he delves deeply into the biodynamic preparations discussed by Rudolf Steiner in his Agriculture Course, exploring each one individually:    500 - manure placed in the sheath of a horn 501 - silica placed in the sheath of a horn  502 - yarrow placed in the sheath of a bladder  503 - chamomile placed in the sheath of an intestine  504 - nettle placed in the sheath of peat-earth  505 - oak bark placed in the sheath of a skull  506 - dandelion placed in the sheath of the mesentery  507 - valerian scattered in the sheath of the air    For those who are interested in or are wish to practice biodynamic farming or gardening methods, this collection of eight lectures by Dr. Paul Scharff will become an invaluable companion and guide.   FROM THE BOOK:    \"Let us turn to the first lecture [of the Agriculture Course]. For a long time, I rather puzzled about the introduction. Rudolf Steiner begins by talking about the being of Anthroposophia. He indicates that what he is giving is actually a gift of this being. Most think of Anthroposophy as a body of knowledge, not as a spiritual being who imparts knowledge. The course thereby seems to be a product of the exchange between Rudolf Steiner and a spiritual being who gives the anthroposophical content out of the spiritual world.... Who is the being who carries the wisdom of the human being, can share this with initiates such as Rudolf Steiner, and then help us to understand the task of working with the earth, enculturating the earth? How can this being help evolve a new agriculture?\" (lecture 1)   \"As we open the Agriculture Course to contemplate the earth, we immediately come upon the problem of economics. We can close the course by contemplating the cancer of the human organism and the cancer of the economic process, the unfolding of useless production and overproduction. On the one hand, there is overproduction and cancer. Such is the northern evolving economic world. On the other hand, in the third world and undeveloped countries there is stagnation, a dreaming, an unfolding of dream-heads that cannot unfold the earth. The intellect of the West, the potato head, will try to go to the undeveloped countries to unfold new economic processes. The problem will be that there will be a tendency to use the same type of intellect and the same type of economic thinking that will lead to an overproduction and a wasting and draining of the earth's resources that have not been developed. We see this already with the destruction of the rainforests, and the introduction of high-tech agriculture in third-world countries. Fortunately, a few are waking to the problem. 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Working through shock, grief, and even depression is a necessary step in life following a death in one's community.   Torin Finser--long-serving faculty member of the Waldorf Teacher Edu-cation Program at Antioch University New England--presents stories, fairy tales, personal anecdotes, and even the Egyptian Book of the Dead to help children and adults deal with loss through spiritual insights into the meaning of death and suggestions for how a school community can build resilience by coming together after the loss of a colleague or fellow student.   The False Door between Life and Death is an indispensible resource to prepare teachers and par-ents who are likely to face a death at some time in their community.   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With brisk and insightful essays—written by a man clearly working in the midst of his subject matter—he moves through seven core themes of youth education—growth, method, curriculum, terms, principles, governance, and administration—and ends with a hopeful look at the future.Employing pithy observations, bold myth-busting insights into key terms (what they mean and do not mean, including “math gnomes”), child development, and much more, How the Future Can Save Us is an engaging and exciting read for both new and experienced teachers, parents and caregivers, and any student of education. It offers a fresh, hopeful, unconventional, and reinvigorating take on Waldorf education—where it comes from, what it means today, and how it still holds promise for the future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43414782869549,"sku":"9781621482543","price":46.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/1298\/2317\/files\/9781621482543.jpg?v=1782626069"},{"product_id":"9781621483250","title":"Introductions to Eurythmy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroductions to eurythmy performances, 1913-1924 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e(CW 277a)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It certainly is not our wish to compete in any way with any other form of dance and such that might superficially resemble what we are doing. We know very well that our contemporaries are able to offer something much more polished than what we can offer within our own specialized realm. But the point for us is not to present something that already exists in some other form. The point is to create a special form of art, called forth by movements of the human body, by the mutual movements and positioning of artists divided up into groups.\" (Feb. 24, 1919)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume features introductory addresses given by Rudolf Steiner to the first audiences of the newly minted art of eurythmy. Before each eurythmy performance at which he was present, Steiner gave such an introduction. His intention, as he remarked on several occasions, was not to elucidate the meaning of eurythmy intellectually--a vain and inartistic endeavor--but rather to orient the audience to this new undertaking in the realm of art. Steiner took many approaches to this end, describing in his introductions a range of themes, from the origins of eurythmy as a Goethean art form to its role in pedagogy and therapy. As this volume gathers a large collection of these introductions, repetition is inevitable but not without value. A slight nuance of expression can awaken new insight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom its inception, Steiner emphasized that eurythmy would be \"a matter of \u003cem\u003ethe word\u003c\/em\u003e, not [of dancing to] music.\" Later, he called eurythmy \"the art that has grown entirely from the soil of anthroposophy.\" In these introductions, he stresses the connection of this new art form with Goethes concept of metamorphosis:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We need only recall how it was that Goethe rose up to the idea that each individual organ of the plant should be viewed as a transformation of the other organs that manifest within the same plant.... If we permeate ourselves with the intuitive insights latent within this view of nature, then it is possible to transpose this insight into artistic feeling and artistic form. That is what our art of eurythmy has attempted to accomplish with regard to certain artistically formed movements of the human body itself. And our way of attaining that ideal is by here transposing into movement what Goethe initially intuited within the realm of form.\" (Feb. 24, 1919)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is just one of the many keys to unlocking the open secret of this new art form--inaugurated a century ago but still in its infancy--with applications in the fields of education and therapy. 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