Art and Soul: Rudolf Steiner, Interdisciplinary Art and Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: What Has Happened to the Soul of Art Education?

   • Victoria de Rijke

   Pages 1-20

3. Educational Imaginings

   • Nic Pople

   Pages 21-39

4. Creative ‘Stuff’ in the Steiner Kindergarten: How Steiner Educators Understand the Art Materials They Work With

   • Mona Sakr

   Pages 41-59

5. Steiner, Eurythmy and Scribble: Visible Music and Singing, Visible Speech and Listening

   • Victoria de Rijke

   Pages 61-76

6. Blackboard Singing in the Dead of Night: Object Lessons in the Art Room

   • Howard Hollands

   Pages 77-96

7. Social Sculpture and Education: Schiller, Steiner, Beuys and Sacks

   • Wolfgang Zumdick

   Pages 97-115

8. Expressionism or Impressionism? A Split Syzygy

   • Gill David

   Pages 117-138

9. “Steiner and Me” an Interview with Artist Teacher Mike Lawson-Smith

   • Mike Lawson-Smith

   Pages 139-155

10. CODA: Involution to Evolution; ‘He Made the Future Live Before Us’

    • Victoria de Rijke

    Pages 157-171

11. Back Matter

    Pages 173-184

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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.

• Steiner-Waldorf
• Spiritual architecture
• Transpersonal Arts in Therapy
• CODA: Involution to Evolution
• Anthroposophy

“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)

 

• Arts and Education, Middlesex University, London, UK

  Victoria de Rijke

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