CARLGREN Frans - Educating for Freedom. Rudolf STEINER's pedagogy

The pedagogy presented in Education to Freedom rejects the pragmatic, in fact, post-Herbartian model of educational technology, which boils down to manipulation of man, restoring his spiritual dimension: The Waldorf school teacher does not mold the pupil, does not force him into ready-made models of "social roles," does not impose a crafted worldview on him, but helps him in his effort to become, to develop his personality in the effort of being a human being as a conscious being in the world, in his autonomous development towards inner freedom to judge and determine himself and the world. The spiritualist-theosophical (anthroposophical) foundation of Rudolf Steiner's philosophy may seem controversial to the Reader because of its radically alternative and universalist character, and so may appear to him the pedagogy derived from it, but the Waldorf schools for almost a century of their activity have demonstrated their undeniable practical educational and didactic value, creating - in the difficult conditions of competition with state school systems - a real alternative to them.
The book reports on this activity of already more than 900 schools in the world (including several in Poland). Written in an extremely communicative manner, richly illustrated, it presents a picture of the pedagogy of the joy of a colorful childhood of play, imitation and creative fantasy, seeking youth, but not without the benefit of authority, development towards independent judgment and the maturity of non-inferior adulthood.

Publisher: Genesis, 1994.
Format: 235 x 165 mm, 265 pages.
Softcover.

UNIQUE ITEM

Book in very nice condition.