Phases of Childhood: Growing in Body, Soul and Spirit

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Phases of Childhood: Growing in Body, Soul and Spirit Lievegoed, Bernard C. J. Summary -- How can education work in harmony with a child's developing relationship with the world ar ound?-- How can education take account of body, soul, and spirit?Bernard Lievegoed takes a child's full humanity -- body, soul and spirit -- as his starting point. -- How can education work in harmony with a child's developing relationship with the world around?-- How can education take account of body, soul, and spirit?Bernard Lievegoed takes a child's full humanity -- body, soul and spirit -- as his starting point. From this, a philosophy and pedagogy emerge in which, he argues, children can become happy, wise and skilled adults only when education takes the development of these three aspects into account from the very beginning.Drawing on the educational ideas of Rudolf Steiner, and on a philosophical tradition going back to Goethe and Schiller, Lievegoed turns away from the materialist nineteenth-century notion of 'knowledge is power' which still pervades mainstream education today. He describes the three main stages of child development -- pre-school, schoolchild and teenager -- in a clear and concise way. Lievegoed shows that each stage of roughly seven years has its own character, and its own genetic and biographical potential.The author goes on to explore the practical application of these insights as an education method in harmony with the child's developing relationship with the world around them. Highlights Easy to enjoy: 208 pages · Paperback By Lievegoed, Bernard C. J. Details ISBN: 9780863152504 Author: Lievegoed, Bernard C. J. Format: Paperback Pages: 208 Language: English Publication date: 1 February 1997 Condition: Used – Good About the authors Lievegoed, Bernard C. J. and Bernard Lievegoed More about this book Reviews Today's education depends largely on materialist 19th century ideas derived from the notion of knowledge as power. The child's growth in beauty, wisdom and culture plays only a small part, if any in the modern curriculum. Show more