{"product_id":"the-child-as-a-sense-organ-an-anthroposophic-understanding-of-imitation-processes-9781621481836","title":"The Child as a Sense Organ: An Anthroposophic Understanding of Imitation Processes","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe initial period of childhood is essentially about adapting to and incarnating on Earth and establishing a provisional balance between the \"spiritual\" and the \"physical,\" between the prenatal cosmic and the earthly factors. During this time, according to Rudolf Steiner, \"all the forces of a child's organization emanate \u003cem\u003efrom the neurosensory system. . . . By bringing respiration into harmony with neurosensory activity, we draw the spirit-soul element into the child's physical life.\" \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Selg investigates how children's early experience of the world begins as an undifferentiated sensory relationship to their phenomenological environment. This aspect of a child's incarnation leads to leaning through imitation and to the process of recognizing \"the Other\" as a separate entity with which to interact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this cogent work, Peter Selg describes the early stages of childhood from the perspectives of conventional scientific and spiritual-scientific-- anthropological and anthroposophic--research with the purpose of encouraging a new educational attitude in working with young children. In his numerous references to early childhood development, this was Rudolf Steiner's most important and urgent purpose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Steiner Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781621481836\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.31d","brand":"Peter Selg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43471183904949,"sku":"9781621481836","price":12.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_2492b534-fa93-43f5-8250-9eeae132f3d3.jpg?v=1704823824","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-child-as-a-sense-organ-an-anthroposophic-understanding-of-imitation-processes-9781621481836","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}