“THUS AM I.” Helping Children Trough Family Breakup Gaze Both Ways straddles the world of primary and high school in social science; a time when the needs of the young change dramatically. If they are, or have been, victims of family breakup, then their social imperative change here also. The following is an attempt to […]
BOOK: Gaze Both Ways
Gaze Both Ways: The 12 Aspects of Character
Mysterium Iniquitatus – Mysterium Pietus The 12 Aspects of Character – A St. John Mystery This chapter on the moral development of humankind has been included in an exposition of Steiner high school education due to the fact that, at the 18th year, the students are standing in the vestibule of adulthood, where one’s good […]
Gaze Both Ways: Religion in Steiner Education?
My Karma Ran Over My Dogma! RELIGIOUS TEACHING IN STEINER EDUCATION My most precious possession as a young child was the gold and silver christening cup I received from the local Methodist Church. I enjoyed also the Sunday School Stories. I did not respond so positively, however, to the later dogma of an insistence on […]
Gaze Both Ways: Steiner Education in Japan
TALE OF TWIN FISHES Steiner Education in Japan “If cultural bridges are not built between East and West this century.” Said Rudolf Steiner “then ones of warfare will be.” Oh how right he was! This, among many of his imprecations to expand the horizons of our spiritual life by deepening our relationship to Asia, was […]
Gaze Both Ways: The 7th and 8th Grade Student
FROM FOLK SOULS TO GROUP SPIRITS All Alone in a Teeming World “Why so sad?” said Maraylya, the silver-haired Aboriginal woman as she sat with her male Anglo-Saxon, middle-aged, middle-class companion. They were staring form a high cliff into the bluest of blue Pacific waters which surged lazily under an equally blue sky. The early […]
Gaze Both Ways: Consumer Affairs
APPLES AND ARROW ACCURACY Consumer Affairs – Class 8 – Middle Lesson “If things are not all right in the classroom, they will not be all right anywhere.” – Sir James Ralph Darling. Well in the wide world of consumerism, there is grave doubt that things were all right in the classroom. This complex realm […]