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The Value of Art for the Adolescent

Category: Art in Education | Date: 5 July 2016

Author: A.W. Mann Date published: Unknown Contact details: Contact tab available on Waldorf library site Published in Education as an Art Vol. 29, No. 2 – Spring/Summer 1971 Source: http://www.waldorflibrary.org/articles/29-the-value-of-art-for-the-adolescent   Before us on the screen is the figure of a Pharaoh. His body is uncomfortably still and rigid. He looks as if he...

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Painting Problems – The exercising of colour sense

Category: Art in Education | Date: 5 July 2016

Author: Van James Date published: Unknown Contact details: enquiries@christopherushomeschool.org   (Reprinted with kind permission from Child and Man, Vol.24, No.1, nov 1989) Have you ever heard the complaint, “Why do all the children’s paintings look the same?” If you’ve asked yourself this question after having viewed the work of students in the lower...

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Painting and Drawing in Waldorf Schools: Class 1 – 8

Category: Art in Education | Date: 5 July 2016

Author: Thomas Wildgruber Date published: February 01, 2013 Contact details: Option available to comment on article   A Review by Donna Simmons There was great excitement in the Christopherus office when a great, fat envelope from Floris Books arrived. I was in town visiting the office and Leigh and I had just sat down with some coffee to review sales reports when the mail...

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Finding Truth in Art, Beauty in Science

Category: Art in Education | Date: 5 July 2016

Author: Eileen Hutchins Date published: Unknown Contact details: Contact tab available on Waldorf library site Originally published in Child and Man (UK), Vol 5, #2 Winter 1968   THE attitude towards music, painting and rhythmical movement as school subjects has very much changed during the last 50 years. A few decades ago these were not part of the normal curriculum but were...

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Art and the Adolescent

Category: Art in Education | Date: 5 July 2016

Author: Ted Roberts Date Published: In Child and Man, Volume 12, #1, 1977 (UK)   The age of puberty has never provoked as much controversy as it does today; educationalists, sociologists, psychiatrists and parents are confronted with problems which become increasingly difficult almost day by day. Educationalists call for parent partici­pation, parents call for stricter guidelines...

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