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A Guidebook by Elizabeth Seward
Teaching Through StoriesJane and Jeremy Learn to Knit
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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"Unhurried education, and teaching to the heart through stories, develop a lifelong love of a continually unfolding process of learning and loving the world.” Teaching Through Stories: Jane and Jeremy Learn to Knit will encourage you to take things into your own hands by giving you the tools to teach others. It’s effective and fun to teach using stories—this book tells you how!The first in a series on teaching handwork, this complete guide is written for teachers and others who want to teach this popular craft—or any subject—to children through storytelling, fostering personal connection in any educational setting. This handbook is a practical guide to creating and telling your own stories, and connecting with listeners, with examples from knitting lessons. It introduces important pedagogical foundations and offers suggestions for managing a busy handwork classroom. The last chapter shares ideas about selecting patterns and materials and over a dozen of the best patterns the author has developed or modified. Teaching Through Stories embodies an unhurried approach to education used successfully for a hundred years in Waldorf schools around the world. |
PRAISE FOR
TEACHING THROUGH STORIES
I began my Waldorf teaching career as a handwork teacher before becoming a class teacher and high school teacher. How I would have loved to have had Elizabeth Seward as a guide at my side. There is nothing else available like it.”
-Betty Staley, co-founder of Rudolf Steiner College, currently Advisory Board member of Alliance for Public Waldorf Education.
“. . . a master class in storytelling as the path to deep learning. . . . her emphasis on an ‘unhurried education’ wakes us from the teach-to-the-test fog that has overtaken much of American education”. |
"This book is a treasure!" "This is a wonderful book and resource for anyone teaching a child to knit" |
"I found your information on storytelling to be both profound and unique. I have also never seen any book that coached the reader as intimately as you have done. Should this book get the circulation that it deserves, you could well be responsible for re-enlivening the oral tradition of teaching. Brilliant work!"
- Nancy Parsons, Founder of Waldorf Books (waldorfbooks.com)
"A big hug of gratitude . . . Thank you for making my job seamless and enjoyable for all. . . . your book gives me a solid foundation to work from, and confident wings for variation."
- Patty Urda, Handwork teacher at Detroit Waldorf School
PURCHASE
YOUR COPY
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Book Details:
212 pages Black & White 8.5 x 8.5 inches |
ISBNs:
978-1-5255-4029-5 eBook 978-1-5255-4028-8 Paperback 978-1-5255-4027-1 Hardcover |
Keywords:
Knitting, Teaching Knitting, Handwork, Teaching Through Stories, Homeschooling, Waldorf, Education, Storytelling, Unhurried Education |
EVENTS 2019
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Holiday Sparkle Sunday October 20, 11 am - 4 pm
Alamitos Bay Yarn Co, 174 N. Marina Drive, Long Beach, CA Meet the Author, Browse the Book - in a 'destination yarn store' |
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Winter's Gift: Teach a Child to Knit classes
coming soon in November/ December Do you want to share your skills with a young person in your life? Have you 'tried' and are you looking for a better way? Classes are for children aged 6+ and a caring adult with Elizabeth Seward, author of Teaching Through Stories: Jane and Jeremy learn to Knit The Altered Stitch, 12443 Magnolia Blvd, Valley Village, 91607 
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