Abstract
07Jul 2019 CREATING HARMONIOUS SCHOOL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT: WALDORF EDUCATION PERSPECTIVE. Olena Mezentseva. Kyiv, Ukraine.
Highlights
Waldorf education was intended to be an effective, holistic, child-centered approach to the education of children and to be a force for larger cultural change
Practical life cannot be raised to artistic form because art has separated from life."3 "All the atrocities which surround us in any city of Europe we may happen to be in, would vanish if only we would cultivate for a few generations the sense of beauty which lives unspoiled in every child."4 "We need today to bring about the marriage between life and art which, can flourish only in the soil of a free life of spirit. . . . Imagine every schoolroom, not decorated in the way often thought artistic today, but shaped by an artist in such a way that each single form is in harmony with what his eye should fall upon when the child is learning his tables
Louise van Blommestein, the original crafts teacher at the Fortbildungsschule (“Continuation School”) in Dornach, recalled Steiner emphasizing that in all the artistic objects created for daily life “it was the purposeful relationship to the human being, for whom they were being made, that was important, and this relationship was to be expressed in design and color.”[8]. A building or a wooden spoon was fully functional only when all aspects of its effects on users were satisfied by the designed form
Summary
Waldorf education was intended to be an effective, holistic, child-centered approach to the education of children and to be a force for larger cultural change. Louise van Blommestein, the original crafts teacher at the Fortbildungsschule (“Continuation School”) in Dornach, recalled Steiner emphasizing that in all the artistic objects created for daily life “it was the purposeful relationship to the human being, for whom they were being made, that was important, and this relationship was to be expressed in design and color.”[8] A building or a wooden spoon was fully functional (or beautiful) only when all aspects of its effects on users were satisfied by the designed form This was possible only when the form was developed “organically” from its internal function and intended user activity, “as if grown out of the object itself.“9 Ideally, the forms designed would fulfill and visually declare their holistically conceived functions.
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