“Big world of small child”

meetings with member of IASWECE coordination group Philipp Reubke

All parents and professionals working with children are invited to participate in evening meetings with our guest from France Philipp Reubke.
Every child brings something amazing, he changes family world and immediately becomes its center. And not because he needs permanent nursing but because he carries special forces of light and love in himself. Small children, we may say, shine from inside and, despite its apparent fragility and helplessness, quickly master the world. Of cause parents and other adults try to help child to adopt in the world and acquire the necessary skills in order to meet commitments of society. All achievements of science and technique are used for this purpose and adult are so wondered when children teach to deal with gadgetry even quicker then they themselves. But in the case of most “successful” and quick adaptation to the world child turns into a little tired old man who knows a lot but cannot play and amaze and doesn’t shine from inside more…
Waldorf approach to yearly childhood education is based on the fact that every child comes into the world with his own capacities and possibilities and educator’s task is to see them and to create proper conditions for their realization. But it does not have to be specially created hothouse conditions because child lives in real world and to be well orientated in reality while maintaining his individuality. Probably every adult wants to preserve his authenticity and human dignity in a rapidly changing world. But this ability is laid in early childhood and it is one of the main purposes of Waldorf kindergarten just to form it.
Philipp Reubke was born in Germany. He was a pupil of the Waldorf School in Stuttgart and then studied philosophy and literature in Gottingen and Heidelberg. Since 1989 he lives in France. He works as kindergarten teacher from 1996 to 2011 in the Waldorf kindergarten in Colmar. Since 1999 he is councilmember in the International Waldorf kindergarten movement and board member of IASWECE since 2005. Now he works as member of the IASWECE coordination group and helps in the Waldorf kindergarten in Mulhouse as a volunteer.

Meetings take place March 21 – 25 from 18.15 till 19.45.
Meetings items:
March 21 – child observation;
March 22 – circle games;
March 23 – free play and the attitude of adult in free play;
March 24 – festivals;
March 25 – the inner attitude of the adult.