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With Stars in Their Eyes: Brain Science and Your Child's Journey Toward the Self
Contributor(s): Oppenheimer, Sharifa (Author)
ISBN: 162148226X     ISBN-13: 9781621482260
Publisher: Steiner Books
OUR PRICE:   $25.20  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: January 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Classroom Management
- Psychology | Developmental - Child
- Family & Relationships | Parenting - Stepparenting
LCCN: 2018964652
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 7.5" W x 8.9" (1.20 lbs) 276 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Family
 
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Publisher Description:

In this book readers will find not only a heart-filled rendering of the gentle ways young children have been traditionally raised and educated, but also cutting edge research that supports these practices. With love as the foundation, and through the neural tapestry created by joyful movement, music, art, stories, and play, we feed and bathe the brain of the young child. These deep connections with life are woven together during childhood to become the wholeness we call "I."

Each chapter offers ideas for bringing this new science and these time-honored ways into the home and classroom. Parents, educators, and everyone who has ever loved and cared for a child will find research, humor, wisdom, and a new paradigm that marries ageless wisdom with the new science of the human brain and heart.

CONTENTS:

How to Use This Book

PART ONE

Introduction: The Science of Connection
1. Gentle Ways and Hard Science for the Early Years
2. The Love Connection
3. The Nature Connection
4. The Spiritual Connection

PART TWO

Introduction: The Science of Childhood
5. Exploring Self and the World through the Senses
6. Making Sense of Self and the World through Movement
7. Art and Stories: Tools to Imagine the Self
8. Creative Play: The Art and Practice of Becoming Oneself

Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Color Images


Contributor Bio(s): Oppenheimer, Sharifa: - Sharifa Oppenheimer was the founding teacher of the Charlottesville Waldorf School where she taught kindergarten for twenty-one years, and is the founder and director of The Rose Garden, a home based early childhood program in Virginia. She has helped develop new teachers through mentoring and offering practicum and internship opportunities to the teacher-training students at Sunbridge College in New York, as well as students in the LifeWays trainings. Sharifa travels nationally and internationally, offering lectures and workshops to teachers, school and parent groups, encouraging each one to discover their own healthy, heartfelt Family Culture. Sharifa is the mother of three grown sons, who were educated in the Waldorf tradition. She lives with her husband in an enchanted forest in Virginia. Sharifa Oppenheimer is the author of the bestselling book Heaven on Earth A Handbook for Parents of Young Children (SteinerBooks, 2006), which has been translated into Taiwanese and Chinese and is also a bestseller in those countries. She also worked collaboratively to create the book What is a Waldorf Kindergarten (SteinerBooks, 2007).