Description
From her experience of working with children of all ages, Marieke Anschütz provides a guide to children’s different temperaments and their role in child character, health and personality development.
The book includes illustrations from home and school, in the context of the Steiner-Waldorf classroom. The author discusses how these ideas may be used to manage, and relate to, groups and individuals.
C O N T E N T S:
1. A question: by way of foreword
2. Types and typologies
3. A source of confidence
4. Back to the origins
5. A new formulation of an old concept
6. Four in one
7. The four temperaments in colour
8. Born four times
9. Up to the age of fourteen
10. After twice seven years
11. The number of the earth
12. The four Evangelists
13. The black square
14. Fairy tales as a guide
15. Moving mountains
16. Seeing the wood through the trees
17. Eating what’s on the table
18. Four children in the class
19. In conclusion: an answer
One of the best and most accessible resources on the subject of the four temperaments and children. Anschütz gives us a guide to children’s different temperaments and their role in child character, health and personality development. She illustrates her ideas with examples from home and school, using the context of the Waldorf/Steiner school classroom, and discusses how to use these insights in managing and relating to groups and individuals. This is an fascinating journey that will be enlightening and invigorating to both parents and teachers.
