GA 301

The Renewal of the Pedagogical-Didactic Art through Spiritual Science

Die Erneuerung der pädagogisch-didaktischen Kunst durch Geisteswissenschaft

Fourteen lectures for teachers from public schools, Basel 20 April to 11 May 1920.

This so-called "Basel Teachers' Course" provides an introduction to the educational foundations of the Waldorf School in Stuttgart, which was founded in 1919. It was aimed at interested teachers from public schools.

Contents

Following a lecture of November 27, 1919 requested by the Basel Department of Education, sixty members of the audience invited Rudolf Steiner to return and deliver a complete lecture course on his approach to education. These lectures are the result. Rudolf Steiner begins by outlining the gradual development of the child with the help of spiritual forces and enlightened educational practices, which form the basis for Steiner's approach to education. He describes the problems that modern educators face and provides practical solutions. Steiner explains the effects of morality on real freedom and how the development of a child's will leads to a free, flexible ability to think. He describes the life-long effects that teachers have on children through the ways they teach in the early grades. The subjects of these lectures cover a broad range, from the threefold nature of the human being to the teacher's responsibility toward their students' future; from arts such as music and eurythmy to the problems involved in training teachers; from zoology and botany to language, geography, and history. Like many of Steiner's lectures to public audiences, these are accessible and practical and provide a real overview to his ideas for renewing modern education.

Spiritual science and modern education / Threefold structure of the human being / Knowledge of the human being as the basis of education / The educator as the builder of the future content of the human soul / Some aspects of the curriculum / Eurythmic, musical, drawing and language lessons / Education as a problem of teacher training / Zoology and botany lessons from the 9th to the 12th year / Dialect and written language / Synthesis and analysis in the human being and in education / The rhythmic element in education / History and geography lessons / Children's play

Literatur

• Rudolf Steiner, Robert F. Lathe (Translator), Eugene Schwartz (Introduction): The Renewal of Education: Lectures Delivered in Basel, Switzerland. CW 301. 2nd edition. Anthroposophic Press 2002. ISBN 978-0880104555; eBook ASIN B006W0FB5Q

German

• Rudolf Steiner: Die Erneuerung der pädagogisch-didaktischen Kunst durch Geisteswissenschaft, GA 301 (1991), ISBN 3-7274-3010-9 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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