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Waldorf Education Resources
Series
The Human Being and the Animal World
Paperback
August 2008
9780863156403
More details
- Publisher
Floris Books - Published
31st August 2008 - ISBN 9780863156403
- Language English
- Pages 144 pp.
- Size 5.5" x 8.5"
$18.00
The Human Being and the Animal World is a resource book for teaching about animals in comparison to human beings. It is recommended for Waldorf school classes 4 and 5 (ages 9 to 11).
Charles Kovacs taught in Edinburgh, which gave a strong Scottish flavor to the animals discussed in the first half of the book, which include seals, red deer, and eagles. In the later chapters, Kovacs covers elephants, horses, and bears.
Charles Kovacs
Charles Kovacs (1907–2001) was born in Vienna, Austria. He left in 1938 and joined the British Army in East Africa. After the War he settled in Britain, and in 1956 he took over a class at the Rudolf Steiner School in Edinburgh, where he remained a class teacher until his retirement in 1976. He died in 2001. His extensive lesson notes have been a useful and inspiring resource material for many teachers; he also gave over 300 lectures to adults and was in demand as a speaker. He is the author of numerous books for Waldorf teaching, as well as The Spiritual Background to Christian Festivals and The Apocalypse in Rudolf Steiner's Lecture Series.