Description
Arts and Crafts in Waldorf Schools makes a case for the importance of creativity and craft-based classes throughout a child’s life in school.
- Covers all aspects of arts, crafts and handiwork, including woodwork, forestry, metalwork and pottery
- Written by experienced Waldorf craft teachers
- Shows how arts and crafts help children to develop on many different levels
Written by experienced Waldorf craft teachers, this comprehensive book presents many ideas for craft-based classes and explores the importance of arts and crafts in children’s development.
C O N T E N T S:
Preface
Introduction by Michael Martin, Aonghus Gordon, and Wolfgang Schad
PART ONE: FROM PLAY TO WORK
1. From play in learning to joy in work / Ernst Bühler
2. The age of “work maturity” / Michael Martin
PART TWO: CRAFTS IN THE MIDDLE SCHOOL
3. Preface to part two / Michael Martin
4. Getting ready for craft lessons (Class 5) / Johannes Geier
5. Shifting emphasis in craft lessons (Class 6) / Michael Martin
6. Crafts in the Middle School (Classes 5-8) / Walter Dielhenn
7. A forestry main-lesson class trip (Class 7) / Liesel Gudrun Gienapp
8. Reflections on moveable toys (Class 7) / Michael Martin
9. Investigating the nature of wood (Classes 6-8) / Klaus Charisius
10. Artistic elements in the crafts / Michael Martin
11. Color in the craft room / Michael Martin
PART THREE: CRAFTS IN THE UPPER SCHOOL
12. Arts and crafts and the human being (Class 10) / Michael Martin
13. Form-giving elements and techniques (Classes 9–12 / Michael Martin
14. Pottery lessons (Classes 9-12) / Gerd von Steitencron
15. Pottery workshops and modelling rooms / Michael Martin
16. The shoemaking block (Class 9) / Gerard Locher
17. Working with metals (Classes 9 and 10) / Herbert Seufert
18. Working with iron / Wolf von Knoblauch
19. Copper and iron workshops / Michael Martin
20. The joinery main-lesson blocks (Classes 9 and 10) / Friedrich Weidler
21. Wood and carpentry workshops / Michael Martin
PART FOUR: FORMATIVE ARTISTIC LESSONS IN THE UPPER SCHOOL
22. Lessons in modeling and shaded drawing / Michael Martin
23. Metamorphosis and modeling lessons / Anna-Sophia Gross
24. Working with stone (Classes 10-12) / Rainer Lechler
25. Stone carving in the Upper School (Classes 11 and 12) / Winifred Stuhlmann
26. Woodcarving and art (Class 13) / Uwe Bosse
PART FIVE: FURTHER THINKING
27. Work and rhythm / Herbert Seufert
28. Methods in the formative lessons / Michael Martin
29. The influence of work on thinking / Michael Martin
30. An integrated approach to craftwork / Aonghus Gordon
Notes
Index of activities and materials
