Art and Soul: Rudolf Steiner, Interdisciplinary Art and Education

by Victoria de Rijke

Overview

This book brings together Steiner's philosophical, biodynamic and cultural contributions to education, where 'spirit' and ‘soul’ are the creative elements in human evolution. His thought is applied to selected examples of innovative artistic practice and pedagogy of the present. This volume is intended for researchers in the arts and education with an interest in Rudolf Steiner's huge influence on educational thought and policy.
This is an urgent point in time to reflect on the role of arts in education and what it might mean for our souls. An accessible yet scholarly study of interdisciplinarity, imagination and creativity is of critical widespread interest now, when arts education in many countries is threatened with near-extinction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030176037
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	10/12/2019
Series:	Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education , #25
Edition description:	1st ed. 2019
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: What has Happened to the soul of art Education?.- Educational Imaginings; Nicolas Pople.- Creative ‘Stuff’ in the Steiner Kindergarten: How Steiner Educators Understand the art Materials they work with; Mona Sakr.- Visible Music and Singing, Visible Speech and Listening: Steiner, Eurythmy and Scribble; Victoria de Rijke.- Blackboard Singing in the Dead of Night: Object Lessons in the art room; Howard Hollands.- Social Sculpture and Education:Schiller, Steiner, Beuys and Sacks; Wolfgang Zumdick.- Expressionism or Impressionism? A Split Syzygy; Gill David.- “Steiner and Me”: an Interview with Artist Teacher Mike Lawson-Smith; Mike Lawson-Smith.- CODA: Involution to Evolution; ‘he made the future live before us’; Victoria de Rijke.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This is a fine book edited by Victoria de Rijke. Her and her contributors expand the literature on the work of this important pedagogue and, these contributions, at their best, illustrate the spirit of Steiner's own work. The book will be of interest to new acquaintances of Steiner and to those who have more extensive know. I would firmly recommend it.” (Professor Paul Gibbs, CERS, Middlesex University, UK)