Waldorf Education’s Training For Children’s Creativity And Its Enlightenment

Waldorf education, which arose in the early20th century in Europe, is an important force in the new education movement. After nearly a century of development, it has now spread all over the world and become the world’s largest independent system of education in addition to religious education. Its educational achievements not only get the approbation of the western developed countries, also received the affirmation of the United Nations educational, scientific and cultural organization. Waldorf education as a kind of unique education system has a unique theoretical innovation in cultivating children’s creativity and rich practical experience, can provide some useful reference for our country’s foundation education.Waldorf education uses its start-up Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy and the mental psychology as its theoretical basis. Steiner thought people are a whole which consists of body, soul and spirit, human nature of development is the human spirit development. After in-depth study of children’s mind, emotion and thinking characteristics, he pointed out the three cycles of children’s development theory. Waldorf education is put forward to cultivate spiritual freedom and full development of children’s personality. The education requests the teacher to recognize that there are individual differences of individual children, teachers should be based on the perspective to understand children’s personality, temperament according to the different temperament of children and develop their personality, let children become a person with independent personality. Promote the free development of children’s unique personalities become Waldorf education basic goal. Fully respect and development of personality offer the guarantee on the personality characteristics in the cultivation of creativity for children.Waldorf education,which based on the whole views on children, was associated to construct a whole course to promote the whole brain development of children, and safeguard the overall development of all kinds of thinking. Waldorf curriculum in the elementary education stage using periodic course, integrate the different content of courses by themes. Waldorf school curriculum especially attaches great importance to the values of art courses, art courses, humanities courses, and science courses are developed equally. Schools not only attaches great importance to the mastery of all kinds of knowledge, at the same time the attention raises student’s beginning ability and promote students’emotional development, promote the whole development of students’ hands, brain, heart. In the process of teaching attaches importance to developing students’ intuitive thinking, inspiration and imagination, with the development of logical thinking on the equally important position, so as to develop the child’s whole brain, inspired the creative potential of children.Waldorf education pursues for teaching art. Steiner believed that art activities and artistic teaching can enrich the spiritual life of children, inspire their interest in learning, and cultivate their creative ability. Art not only can enrich children’s emotional and awaken the deep consciousness, also can improve the insight, judgment and creativity. Through artistic teaching, the children have the impulse of creation and regard learning as the creation of interesting rather than work from external force pain, and the children learn to think, find, feel, think and create. Waldorf education of artistic teaching method mainly for emphasis on the role of story in learning; play the role of music in learning; by adopting the method of writing and reading of life; pay attention to the description of characteristic and concept; In addition, the teaching process uses teaching rhythm.Steiner believed that education should cultivate independent spirit of the individual, and children grow up to be free of thinking; only free environment can cultivate free people. Waldorf schools, therefore, which are not controlled by the government in the economic and political as much as possible, sets up teachers’ committee and collective autonomy by teachers, thus ensuring Waldorf schools develop freely. Waldorf school courses don’t use the textbooks in the mainstream schools; all the teaching materials are prepared by the teachers in advance or individual, in the teaching process at any time according to need to be revised or adjusted, and through the artistic teaching to realize teachers’ independent teaching. Waldorf schools have no examinations. The school adopts the diverse, personalized assessment method for evaluation of children to let children study freely. The freedom of the environment for the cultivation of children’s creativity and development provides the necessary external conditions.Waldorf education to cultivate children’s creativity of theoretical innovation and practical experience for our country’s elementary education reform has important inspiration significance. In order to develop the creativity of children, basic education in China should create children’s free development environment, fully ensure the free development of children’s personality, ability to cultivate children’s spirit of questioning and criticism, let them form independent personality; Attaches great importance to art education, raise the proportion of art education in basic education, the teaching of art teaching, promote the development of the humanities, science and art, parallel, thus ensuring children’s whole brain development; Walk in the law of children’s cognitive development, basic education course reform, to promote the integration of disciplines; Training creative education, guide children’s development, to cultivate creative talents of all types and at all levels to lay a solid foundation.