Will Developed Intelligence: Handwork & Practical Arts in a Waldorf School

Handwork cultivates many admirable and positive results in developing human beings – even those already set! Brain research demonstrates repeatedly that handwork stimulates brain development, a multiplicity of neurons, and lights up almost the entire brain. Psychologists indicate that handwork generates inner peace and equilibrium. Students repeatedly testify that the skills they learn and their pride in the results of their handwork and beyond compare. All of these beneficial results lead to capacity and clarity in thinking. Logical thought is demonstrated in handwork. Design is required in handwork; decisions about how to use the results of handwork are demanding in the best of ways. Waldorf Education integrated handwork, woodwork, blacksmithing, basket making, stained glass window making, furniture making, and more handcrafts and practical arts into its curriculum from the beginning of the approach of Waldorf Education in 1919. Many rich aspects of human capacity and skill lie dormant or, worse, simply atrophy from lack of use in each human being. These skills exercised from early grade through high school stimulate an impressive level of thinking. This book carefully describes the handwork and practical arts curriculum in a Waldorf school, the remarkable results in the products and artifacts made, and the student handworkers' thinking creativity.
ASIN: 1936367904
VSKU: BVV.1936367904.G
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Author/Artist:Livingston, Patricia|Mitchell, David
Binding: Paperback
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