Resources

Students and Understanding Their Needs

  • Growing and Learning Using Two Languages, by David Carlson (Autumn 2001, Issue #10, pp. 23-26). A parent, language teacher, and linguist discusses his and his wife's language decision in the context of their daughter's life.
  • Loving to Learn: Protecting a Natural Impulse in a Technocratic World, by Richard House (Spring 2002, Issue #12, pp. 32-36). A Waldorf educator takes a look at issues of intrinsic motivation and developmentally-appropriate education in the context of mainstream education and the "being-qualities" required for learning in today's society.
  • Magical Parent-Magical Child: The Optimum Learning Relationship, by Michael Mendizza and Joseph Chilton Pearce (Autumn 2002, Issue #14, pp. 28-32). In this article, a new model of peak performance and optimum learning is introduced, one that is the subject of the authors' forthcoming book, also entitled Magical Parent — Magical Child: The Optimum Learning Relationship. For more information on this book, see www.ttfuture.org/magical.
  • Nourishing The Inner Life In Schools, by Rachael Kessler (Spring 2002, Issue #12, pp. 27-31). Explores questions of spiritual development in schools, its importance in the life of adolescents, and how to make a place "for the soul" without violating the separation of church and state, or deeply held beliefs by families. (An online action guide entitled "Teaching From the the Soul" suggests other resources related to this topic.)
  • Release the Body, Release the Mind, by Martha Goff Stoner (Spring 2000, Issue #4, pp. 21-23). A teacher of college literature and writing talks about her experiments with meditation, body movement, and other strategies for promoting different kinds of thoughts and opening questions about what role the body plays in learning.
  • Teenagers and Violence, Power and Purpose, by Debra Weistar (Summer 2002, Issue #13, pp. 24-29). An outdoor educator recounts her learning with teenagers about the need to acknowledge violence in oneself, in order to provide opportunities for transcending it.
 

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