Saturday 31 January 2009

If You Could Hear What I See...

Kathy Buckley... Please take your time and watch the video until the end on her website. You will not regret it. I promise.I came across Kathy through Tony Robbins.


"Kathy Buckley was born with a hearing loss that went undetected until she was eight. Those around her believed she was mentally affected. She was sexually abused, run over by a jeep and stricken with cancer - all before the age of thirty.

But rather than be consumed by grief, Kathy sought out laughter. She not only survived, she has gone on to become a successful comedienne and an award winning author. She is also a world-renowned motivational speaker.

Kathy shows that we create our own negativity. With very funny anecdotes, she explains how our choice of vocabulary makes a real difference, how to choose the positive and how we all grow in confidence once we recognise the importance of our own individual contribution.

Based in California but with a message that resonates with the most cynical British audiences, Kathy's indomitable courage in confronting life's challenges inspires anyone and everyone."

© Copyright JLA: All Rights Reserved


Please visit her website as she has no other clip available on you tube other than the one below.
Kathy's web-site: http://www.kathybuckley.com



Kathy Buckley

A real inspiration to all of us...I want you so much to open your eyes...

Lance and wife... When we think it is all too much... It is all too hard... Lance gives real inspiration to all..
Lance Armstrong from Wikipedia
"Full name Lance Edward Armstrong
Lance Armstrong (born Lance Edward Gunderson on September 18, 1971) is an American professional road racing cyclist who rides for UCI ProTeam Team Astana. He won the Tour de France a record-breaking seven consecutive years, from 1999 to 2005. He is the only individual to win seven times, having broken the previous record of five wins, shared by Miguel Indurain (consecutive) and Bernard Hinault, Eddy Merckx and Jacques Anquetil. He has survived testicular cancer, a germ cell tumor that metastasized to his brain and lungs, in 1996. His cancer treatments included brain and testicular surgery and extensive chemotherapy, and his prognosis was originally poor.

In 1999, he was named the American Broadcasting company Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year. In 2000 he won the Prince of Asturias Award in Sports.[2] In 2002, Sports Illustrated magazine named him Sportsman of the Year. He was also named Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year for 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005. He received ESPN's ESPY Award for Best Male Athlete in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006, and won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality Award in 2003. Armstrong retired from racing on July 24, 2005, at the end of the 2005 Tour de France, but returned to road racing in January 2009 season.[3]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Armstrong


Reportage Lance Armstrong Part 1


Lance Armstrong - Cycling Legend

Thursday 29 January 2009

You and me we meant to be walking free in harmony...

This posting is for my best friend's brother, Stephen. He is the most loving, sharp and is so focused when finding a balance in hard circumstances and also he is a most genuinely nice person. He had some serious issues to deal with in his life. When I first met him he was brilliant when I had to go through some issues I didn’t understand. He just knew instinctively how and what needed to be said and done. He loves to see people smile. This is the clip he sent this morning. Thank you ‘Stewon’ (this is how I call him) for being yourself and being there as always. God Bless You Darling! You are a great inspiration to all of your friends.

Morcheeba - Rome Wasn't Built In A Day

What do we ALL need? To belong, to be accepted and to make our own mark on the world...

The aim of Sourcesence is to shift the focus from the often unsatisfactory answers we might get to our quests, by widening the lens of observation when looking at the health, well being, growth and development of human beings. I merely wish to inspire, empower and encourage readers to seek ‘within’ and find answers for themselves.


Disaboom: Meet Josh Blue Interview (4 of 6)



Josh Blue (LCS Season 4 Ep. 9)







Josh Blue with his son Simon


"Well, I hoped that I would make you wonder and I also hoped to make you think."... Extract from one of my previous postings. Link to Hello and welcome: http://sourcesense.blogspot.com/search/label/Hello%20and%20welcome

Monday 26 January 2009

I promised you a while ago that I would tell you the story related to the film ‘Brother Sun Sister Moon’. This was the first clip I put up on this blog and it is titled ‘If you want your dream to be…’
Well, this is the story:
It was a cold and dark winter day in February 1982. At that time I was a second year graduate at the Petö Institute. I was just about to take my afternoon coffee break and I was heading towards reception to collect some pre-ordered coffee for all us who were having a break, when I bumped into a small group of conductors having a heated discussion behind the curtains at the adult department. (Felnőtt Ambulancia)
As I arrived they turned towards me… so what do you think Szathmáry?? Addressing people and using their surname was and still is widely acceptable and not unfriendly at work or in any professional settings in Hungary.
What did I think?… Frankly I was quite uncertain about my own point of view.
They were talking about the history of disability and about how each culture dealt with their disabled fellow humans.
All I knew and all I was certain about without a doubt, that everything I was taught to do in my practice and theory were resonating with my heart and soul.
I loved what I was learning about Konduktiv Pedagogia and the humane way we approached and structured the children’s and the adults’ life at Petö.
But the question was given to me… which was the right way?
I listened to many different points of views through that conversation, but I left the group with a quest in mind. What is the best for the individuals?
On the same day a fellow konduktor asked me whether I was free to go to the Film Museum with her, as there was a really good film she wanted to see. I agreed.
In the Budapest’s Film Museum at that time only arty and unusual films were shown, films, which were never circulated in commercial movies. So off we went to see ‘Brother Sun Sister Moon’…
When the film got to the scene, where Francis of Assisi was re-building the temple and his only helpers were the old, vulnerable and the disabled my heart sank. Tears filled my eyes and when the picture shown the little boy who couldn’t move his body only his head, sitting in the cold snow and was helping Francis how to position the stone in the right way… There it was, I got the answer to my quest and at that point I truly understood that every single life is precious and we all have a purpose and a gift, which is invaluable. What Francis would have done without that boy? Would he have accomplished his vision? I believe that Francis needed that boy to make it perfect and he also needed all of those who were with him when his family and friends rejected him. There is a purpose for everyone and everything in this life. It is our job to find our purpose behind the presenting façades and also to help others if we can to find their own purpose. There are no spare parts in the Universe we all have an invaluable contribution to make to life.

If You Want Your Dream To Be ... [brother sun, sister moon]

"We are what we repeatedly do" Aristotle


I have decided to put up Tony’s clips here in the belief that it might help someone in some way. I completed Tony’s mastery university, as at that time of my life I felt that he was able to give me what I wanted to know.
He is a huge guy… and also he is 6 feet 7 inches (201 cm) tall. Tony had a tough life to begin with, but he turned it around. He is one of the most loving and compassionate human beings I have ever met. I remember when I arrived to Fiji and stepped off the minibus, which took us to his resort he was standing at this beautiful open veranda furnished with enormous sofas and was saying goodbye to his son who was leaving the resort. He turned towards me and said: Hi, how are you? He held and shook my hands with both of his hands. HIS HANDS ARE HUGE! It was one of the most loving and reassuring handshakes I have ever had in my whole life. There are many ways to find the way back to our true selves to our own truth. Tony was one the few who gave me information, knowledge and experiences, which were not available anywhere else at the time of my searching. BUT he might not be ‘your cup of tea’.

Tony Robbins on Motivation in a Slump


What is an Extraordinary Life?



Tony Robbins


Sorry about the adverts that are coming up on the last clip.
It was not my intention to advertise Tony. I believe that everybody must find his or her own individual path in searching.

Saturday 24 January 2009

Alvin's Laws of Life

Can you see the ethos of Conductive Pedagogy in his philosophy and his general outlook to life ? Can you?




Motivational Speaker Alvin Law -- Alvin's Laws of Life

Friday 23 January 2009

Dyscalculia

Dyscalculia is a specific learning disability in mathematics. Dyscalculia is a word we use to describe when people have significant problems with numbers - but still have a normal or above normal IQ. It seems that people with dyscalculia not only have problems with math, but also struggle with being able to learn to tell time, left/right orientation, rules in games and much more.



Dyscalculia / Diszkalkulia





Eros Ramazzotti Feat. Cher - Piu Che Puoi

Parents

"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.” K G
Every parent is unique, children are unique, and the relationship between them is deeper and more complex than anyone could invent.

When working with Conductive Pedagogy we do not want to trivialise the richness of human experiences by letting you believe that interactions with your child is simple and predictable.

Our goal is to help you to understand who you are, find out who your child is and help you to develop parenting skills within the context of informed awareness of how children usually grow and develop and what and how certain things are needed to be done with a child whose life is effected with a neurological condition.

All parents can become more conscious if they choose to be. Consciousness is a natural state and available to everyone. The only requirements are to become aware that you are not as conscious as you want to be and the willingness to engage in the process of deep reflection. We believe that every parent can learn how to be a better one, and that is the spirit we offer you our observations and suggestions.
Our intention is most definitely to help parents not to blame themselves for the difficulties, but to guide them, how in our imperfect world and with our incomplete knowledge and experience about parenting we could find meaningful ways to bring about much welcomed transformation for a more complete, more joyful and more satisfying life for both parents and child.

We invite you to join us to explore this new vision for parenting and conductive upbringing that preserves your wholeness and the wholeness of your child.

Thursday 22 January 2009

"Du musst aus DIR DEN ENGEL ausgebaren" Petö

"Az angyalt kell magadbolkihoznod." Petö

"Petö azt tartotta, hogy "a jot kell kihozni az emeberekbol!" Meg volt gyozodve arrol, hogy ezt lehet es sikerult is kihoznia, eredmenyt elernie, ha idolegesen is, barkinel. Nekem is felirta egy cedulara egyszer:"Du musst aus DIR DEN ENGEL ausgebaren"
"Az angyalt kell magadbol kihoznod."

Hári Mária A Konduktiv Pedagogia Tortenete page 15
MPANNI Budapest 1997


http://sourcesense.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-saw-angel-in-marble-and-carved-until.html

Wednesday 21 January 2009

This posting is for Susie, for the family she has been supporting for many, many years and for all of us in Conductive Education…



Tina Turner - The Best



http://konduktorin.blogspot.com/2009/01/simply-best.html

♥♥♥

“Petö Pestalozzirol elnevezett ambulanciat letesitett, es az ide bejarok teritesi dijabol uzemeltette az osztalyt.

A Svajci Voroskereszt adomanyaibol pokrocokat kapott a gyerekek reszere. Dr Hans v. Fischer, a Centrale Sanitaire Suisse vezetoje ketszer latogatta meg az intezetet, es abbol az alkalombol egyszer a szovetseg hivatalos lapjaban, egyszer pedig levelben nyilatkozott.
Azt hiszem, hogy on egy olyan kezelesi eljarast vezetett be amely egyedul all az egesz vilagban. A kis athetotikus aki kessel es villaval eszik, orokre emlekezetemben marad. On a modszerevel egy olyan teruletre hatolt be, amelytol eddig az orvosi kezeles elzarkozott. A sulyos itelet: gyogyithatatlan, amely eddig ezen szerencsetlenek felett elhangzott, elveszitette ervenyet, amiota ez a kezelesi modszer letezik. A kis betegek akiket kezelnek, az egesz vilagon gyogyithatatlan nyomorekok otthonaiba kerulnek. A mozgasgyakoraltokon kivul csoportos kezeles es neveles donto szerepet jatszik.”

Petö Pestalozzirol elnevezett ambulanciaja …” Igy szerepel ez mar a
svajci egeszsegugyi hatosagok leveleiben is (1948. Junius 10)
CENTRALE SANITAIRE SUISSE “…die Besichtigung Ihres Werkes in der PESTALOZZI-AMBULANZ… Ich glaube, dass Sie hier eine Behandlungsmethode eingefurt haben, die in der ganzen Welt einzigartig dastehen durfte.” Der Prasident dr. med. Hans von Fischer”

Hári Mária A Konduktiv Pedagogia Tortenete page 28.
MPANNI Budapest 1997

http://sourcesense.blogspot.com/search/label/Pedagogy

http://sourcesense.blogspot.com/2009/01/pestalozzi-how-gertrude-teaches-her.html

http://www.archive.org/stream/howgertrudeteach00pestuoft

Tuesday 20 January 2009

A reading from one of Dr. Mária Hári's ♥ lectures on motivation.

This is an extract from Mark Twain’s book titled
‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’. Although the use of some of the words are not appropriate in today’s understanding about equality however, the general meaning of Twain’s concept is still relevant. I hope it helps you to understand the essence of the lecture she gave. When we heard this in Hungarian it was very clear, but perhaps it is more difficult to understand in the style at some places which it was written.


"Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step. The locust-trees were in bloom and the fragrance of the blossoms filled the air. Cardiff Hill, beyond the village and above it, was green with vegetation and it lay just far enough away to seem a Delectable Land, dreamy, reposeful, and inviting.
Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden. Sighing, he dipped his brush and passed it along the topmost plank; repeated the operation; did it again; compared the insignificant whitewashed streak with the far-reaching continent of unwhitewashed fence, and sat down on a tree-box discouraged. Jim came skipping out at the gate with a tin pail, and singing Buffalo Gals. Bringing water from the town pump had always been hateful work in Tom’s eyes, before, but now it did not strike him so. He remembered that there was company at the pump. White, mulatto, and negro boys and girls were always there waiting their turns, resting, trading playthings, quarrelling, fighting, skylarking. And he remembered that although the pump was only a hundred and fifty yards off, Jim never got back with a bucket of water under an hour – and even then somebody generally had to go after him. Tom said:
“Say, Jim, I’ll fetch the water if you’ll whitewash some.”
Jim shook his head and said:
“Can’t, Mars Tom. Ole missis, she tole me I got to go an’ git dis water an’ not stop foolin’ roun’ wid anybody. She say she spec’ Mars Tom gwine to ax me to whitewash, an’ so she tole me go ‘long an’ ‘tend to my own business – she ‘lowed she’d ‘tend to de whitewashin’.”
“Oh, never you mind what she said, Jim. That’s the way she always talks. Gimme the bucket – I won’t be gone only a a minute. She won’t ever know.”
“Oh, I dasn’t, Mars Tom. Ole missis she’d take an’ tar de head off’n me. ‘Deed she would.”
“She! She never licks anybody – whacks ’em over the head with her thimble – and who cares for that, I’d like to know. She talks awful, but talk don’t hurt – anyways it don’t if she don’t cry. Jim, I’ll give you a marvel. I’ll give you a white alley!”
Jim began to waver.
“White alley, Jim! And it’s a bully taw.”
“My! Dat’s a mighty gay marvel, I tell you! But Mars Tom I’s powerful ‘fraid ole missis – ”
“And besides, if you will I’ll show you my sore toe.”
Jim was only human – this attraction was too much for him. He put down his pail, took the white alley, and bent over the toe with absorbing interest while the bandage was being unwound. In another moment he was flying down the street with his pail and a tingling rear, Tom was whitewashing with vigor, and Aunt Polly was retiring from the field with a slipper in her hand and triumph in her eye. But Tom’s energy did not last. He began to think of the fun he had planned for this day, and his sorrows multiplied. Soon the free boys would come tripping along on all sorts of delicious expeditions, and they would make a world of fun of him for having to work – the very thought of it burnt him like fire. He got out his worldly wealth and examined it – bits of toys, marbles, and trash; enough to buy an exchange of work, maybe, but not half enough to buy so much as half an hour of pure freedom. So he returned his straitened means to his pocket, and gave up the idea of trying to buy the boys. At this dark and hopeless moment an inspiration burst upon him! Nothing less than a great, magnificent inspiration.
He took up his brush and went tranquilly to work. Ben Rogers hove in sight presently – the very boy, of all boys, whose ridicule he had been dreading. Ben’s gait was the hop-skip-and-jump – proof enough that his heart was light and his anticipations high. He was eating an apple, and giving a long, melodious whoop, at intervals, followed by a deep-toned ding-dong-dong, ding-dong-dong, for he was personating a steamboat. As he drew near, he slackened speed, took the middle of the street, leaned far over to star-board and rounded to ponderously and with laborious pomp and circumstance – for he was personating the Big Missouri, and considered himself to be drawing nine feet of water. He was boat and captain and engine-bells combined, so he had to imagine himself standing on his own hurricane-deck giving the orders and executing them:
“Stop her, sir! Ting-a-ling-ling!” The headway ran almost out, and he drew up slowly toward the sidewalk.
“Ship up to back! Ting-a-ling-ling!” His arms straightened and stiffened down his sides.
“Set her back on the stabboard! Ting-a-ling-ling! Chow! ch-chow-wow! Chow!” His right hand, meantime, describing stately circles – for it was representing a forty-foot wheel.
“Let her go back on the labboard! Ting-a-ling-ling! Chow-ch-chow-chow!” The left hand began to describe circles.
“Stop the stabboard! Ting-a-ling-ling! Stop the labboard! Come ahead on the stabboard! Stop her! Let your outside turn over slow! Ting-a-ling-ling! Chow-ow-ow! Get out that head-line! Lively now! Come – out with your spring-line – what’re you about there! Take a turn round that stump with the bight of it! Stand by that stage, now – let her go! Done with the engines, sir! Ting-a-ling-ling! Sh’t! s’h’t! sh’t!” (trying the gauge-cocks).
Tom went on whitewashing – paid no attention to the steamboat. Ben stared a moment and then said: “Hi- yi ! You’re up a stump, ain’t you!”
No answer. Tom surveyed his last touch with the eye of an artist, then he gave his brush another gentle sweep and surveyed the result, as before. Ben ranged up alongside of him. Tom’s mouth watered for the apple, but he stuck to his work. Ben said:
“Hello, old chap, you got to work, hey?”
Tom wheeled suddenly and said:
“Why, it’s you, Ben! I warn’t noticing.”
“Say – I’m going in a-swimming, I am. Don’t you wish you could? But of course you’d druther work – wouldn’t you? Course you would!”
Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said:
“What do you call work?”
“Why, ain’t that work?”
Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly:
“Well, maybe it is, and maybe it ain’t. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer.”
“Oh come, now, you don’t mean to let on that you like it?”
The brush continued to move.
“Like it? Well, I don’t see why I oughtn’t to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?”
That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom swept his brush daintily back and forth – stepped back to note the effect – added a touch here and there – criticised the effect again – Ben watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more absorbed. Presently he said:
“Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little.”
Tom considered, was about to consent; but he altered his mind:
“No – no – I reckon it wouldn’t hardly do, Ben. You see, Aunt Polly’s awful particular about this fence – right here on the street, you know – but if it was the back fence I wouldn’t mind and she wouldn’t. Yes, she’s awful particular about this fence; it’s got to be done very careful; I reckon there ain’t one boy in a thousand, maybe two thousand, that can do it the way it’s got to be done.”
“No – is that so? Oh come, now – lemme, just try. Only just a little – I’d let you, if you was me, Tom.”
“Ben, I’d like to, honest injun; but Aunt Polly – well, Jim wanted to do it, but she wouldn’t let him; Sid wanted to do it, and she wouldn’t let Sid. Now don’t you see how I’m fixed? If you was to tackle this fence and anything was to happen to it – ”
“Oh, shucks, I’ll be just as careful. Now lemme try. Say – I’ll give you the core of my apple.”
“Well, here – No, Ben, now don’t. I’m afeard – ”
“I’ll give you all of it!”
Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face, but alacrity in his heart. And while the late steamer Big Missouri worked and sweated in the sun, the retired artist sat on a barrel in the shade close by, dangled his legs, munched his apple, and planned the slaughter of more innocents. There was no lack of material; boys happened along every little while; they came to jeer, but remained to whitewash. By the time Ben was fagged out, Tom had traded the next chance to Billy Fisher for a kite, in good repair; and when he played out, Johnny Miller bought in for a dead rat and a string to swing it with – and so on, and so on, hour after hour. And when the middle of the afternoon came, from being a poor poverty-stricken boy in the morning, Tom was literally rolling in wealth. He had besides the things before mentioned, twelve marbles,part of a jews-harp, a piece of blue bottle-glass to look through, a spool cannon, a key that wouldn’t unlock anything, a fragment of chalk, a glass stopper of a decanter, a tin soldier, a couple of tadpoles, six fire-crackers, a kitten with only one eye, a brass door-knob, a dog-collar – but no dog – the handle of a knife, four pieces of orange-peel, and a dilapidated old window sash.
He had had a nice, good, idle time all the while – plenty of company – and the fence had three coats of whitewash on it! If he hadn’t run out of whitewash he would have bankrupted every boy in the village.
Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it – namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. And this would help him to understand why constructing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill is work, while rolling ten-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement. There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four-horse passenger-coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer, because the privilege costs them considerable money; but if they were offered wages for the service, that would turn it into work and then they would resign.
The boy mused awhile over the substantial change which had taken place in his worldly circumstances, and then wended toward headquarters to report."
Mark Twain Tom Sawyer Whitewashing the Fence, Chapter Two.

What if …

What if I told you that when I am really, really naughty…what I really,
really want from you Mummy and Daddy is to set limits for me consistently and lovingly so I can feel secure knowing that you are strong and you have my best interest at heart?
Would you do it for me? I love you Mummy and Daddy! ♥

Monday 19 January 2009

Random Thoughts

The present is full of fresh potential while the past is two-dimensional, a snapshot of times gone by.

Sunday 18 January 2009

This posting is for Ágnes who I have never met… and for all of you…
“Every seed is a longing.
Should you really open your eyes and see; you would behold your image in all images.
And should you open your ears and listen; you would hear your own voice in all voices.
It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one who understand it.” KG
Thank You! ♥♥♥♥


Morning Has Broken


Thursday 15 January 2009

Pestalozzi How Gertrude Teaches her Children

Pestalozzi How Gertrude Teaches her Children
On page 17 you can find a short summary of ideas, which were emphasised and were given great importance in Petö’s Conductive Pedagogy at my time at the Petö Institute.
Please click on link to access book:
http://www.archive.org/stream/howgertrudeteach00pestuoft









Pestalozzi with the orphans in Stans.

"Pedagogy is art to educate. The term indicates the methods and practices of teaching and education like all necessary qualities to transmit an unspecified knowledge.

Origin
The term of pedagogy drift of the Greek παιδαγωγία , of παιδός (/'paɪdɔs/) “the child” and ἄγω (/“a.gɔ/) “to lead, carry out, accompany, raise”. In antiquity, the pedagog was a slave who accompanied the child at the school, carried his business to him, but also made him recite its lessons and make its duties. Pedagogy is a word going up with 1495, according to the dictionary the Robert. The French Academy admits it since 1762.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the science of education indicated pedagogy. Today, the expression gets busy in the plural: the Sciences of education are studied while borrowing from several disciplines of the social sciences (Sociologie, Psychologie, Biologie, economy, Philosophie, etc).


History
Precursors
The humanism of the Renaissance sees being born some precursors from pedagogy. In France Rabelais proposes an ideal of the going beyond of oneself. It describes at the end of Gargantua a utopian abbey, the abbey of Thélème. Rabelais, monk of its state, knows the life monacale well, and in the description of this fictitious abbey it presents its idea of a humanistic abbey where beautiful young people people, from the two sexes, would come to study within an ideal framework of life. The stress is then laid on the moral aspect, rather than religious. The importance of physical education is reaffirmed.
To the same time, Ignace de Loyola gives to the order which it bases a vocation of teaching on the base of the new program of teaching, the Ratio Studiorum . The colleges which will be opened by the Jesuits in Italy, in France (college of Clermont in Paris, college of the Arrow, where Descartes will make its studies, college of Mauriac and Billom in Auvergne, etc.), then gradually in all Europe, will be the model of the secondary education of the colleges of the XIXe century.

For Czech Comenius, pedagogy must be useful and for all.

At the 17th century, Jean-Baptiste of the Room founds a laic order to teach free in the schools of village. It writes for the Masters a treaty of Civilité to the use of the children of the two sexes, and a program of studies, the Control of the Christian schools , which will be used as a basis for the organization of the Primary school education until the beginning of the XXe century.

At the 18th century, one returns against enfermement. One wants to train the young people in the contemporary world.


Theories of Rousseau
In 1762, Rousseau written Emile or education . The subject is “art to train the men” (foreword).
Rousseau states in this work its principle: “the child is born good and it is the company which corrupts it”. According to him, it is necessary that the child wants to learn and that it is informed of a manual trade, very rare thing at the noble ones of this time.

In Swiss, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi takes as a starting point these theories to found its school. It wishes to help the child in the real life , but by differentiating it according to the social classes. For him, the family is the best educational medium.

The work is condemned by the Parliament, in particular because of the Profession of faith of the Savoyard vicar. This ideal teaching program offers an innovative vision of childhood


XIXe century
In Germany: Paul Natorp and Georg Kerschensteiner. Each individual must be formed with a given function. The community must develop solidarity, the Civics the respect of the authority, and the patriotic feeling.

XXe century
At the 20th century, the concept of pedagogy changes. Pedagogy becomes a practice, a whole of methods. The pedagogs endeavor to use elements of Psychologie, it is in particular the blossoming of the movement of the new education which regards education a total act of construction of the person and not as a simple retransmission of knowledge.
See also: new education


In Western Europe, one takes into account the child. In the USSR, it is social dimension.

With the the United States, with John Dewey, it is experimental Pragmatique, , voluntarist and socializing.

The Médecine comes to help pedagogy. Maria Montessori, in Rome, creates the method bearing its name to influence the sensorimotor psychology of the nursery schools.

In France, the inspector Roger Bearing, with a free work method by groups, seeks to establish a climate of trust and of reciprocal comprehension. Célestin Freinet is another important actor of the evolution of the French teaching practices, but engagement Libertaire of this work prevented an official recognition a long time to them.

Nowadays, the direction of pedagogy returns more to the way in which will train child that to the contents itself of this formation. They are sometimes the processes implemented in acquisition of knowledge, sometimes of the attitude and the action of the pedagog, by that which accompanies. It is starting from these designs that include themselves/understand and the various currents of pedagogies are classified. In this direction, it is of the techniques implemented in a formative action or about teaching. The technical word including the use here that the made pedagog of its first tool: itself.

From there, the principal ways which open with the development of a pedagogy are to distinguish the knowledge educated with a pupil from the knowledge built by a person. The educated knowledge is connected to the concept of teaching, whereas the built knowledge calls upon the autonomy of the child.

In this direction, pedagogy is not only the work of the teacher. It would be rather the whole of the means - consciously implemented or not - educative community - the Co-teachers. Thus, the family, the school, the recreational centres, the clubs, are as many spheres where the frequent child of the “pedagogs”. It is the debate which the team of the “Crossroads of education launched”, in Perpignan, in October 2003.


Various approaches
Socio-constructivism and motivation
The Socio-constructivisme rests on the idea according to which the acquisition of durable knowledge is supported by the taking into account of the social field in which it is located. This theory was developed by Lev Vygotski while resting on the constructivism of Piaget.
In another direction, however, one can say that Lev Vygotski, for example in Pensée and language (Chapters 2 & 4 in particular) proposes a criticism of the thought piagétienne. He seeks to show indeed that certain acquisitions (in an exemplary way: that of the language) result from the crossing of two lines of development. One corresponds well so that described the developpementalism of Piaget: an individual adapts to a change while putting up to this innovation (accommodation) with a manner which introduces differences into the cognitive diagrams which it was carrying (assimilation) before. The second, it, is of different nature: it consists, according to Lev Vygotski, of the positive influence that older or more tested individuals (elder, adult, monitors, etc) exert on the individual in the course of formation. This second way of the training consists in the effects of the pressures social and cultural, external and, for example, school, on the individual development.

The motivation with the acquisition of knowledge is geared down by the fact of having to manage social relations: conflict reports/ratios, for example, of which the resolution goes hand in hand with the resolution of the cognitive problem. Thus, the fact of having to confront the points of view between two people who start from designs a priori opposite supports the emergence of a negotiation process in the plan cognitive, but so relational, and at the conclusion of this process, the actors of the conflict adapt truly a jointly worked out solution. The social motivation appears, therefore like powerful stimulating cognitive motivation.


Training by problems
In the Training by problems (APP) (in English problem-based learning ), learning them, gathered by teams, work together to solve a problem generally suggested by the teacher, problem for which they did not receive any particular formation, in order to make trainings of contents and to develop competences of solution to problem. The task of the team is usually to explain the Phénomène S subjacent with the problem and to try to solve it in a nonlinear process. The step is guided by the teacher who plays a part of facilitator or Médiateur.

Principal pedagogs
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778);
Condorcet (1743-1794);
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827);
Friedrich Fröbel (1782-1852);
Leon Tolstoï (1828-1910);
Paul Robin (1837-1912);
Sebastien Faure (1858-1942)
Georg Kerschensteiner (1854-1932);
Francisco To shoe (1859-1909);
John Dewey (1859-1952);
Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925);
Maria Montessori (1870-1952);
Ovide Decroly (1871-1932);
Edouard Claparède (1873-1940);
Janusz Korczak (1878-1942);
Adolphe Ferrière (1879-1960);
Roger Bearing (1881-1973);
Alexander Sutherland Neill (1883-1973);
Anton Makarenko (1888-1939);
Célestin Freinet (1896-1966);
Carl Rogers (1902-1987).
Andras Petö (1893-1961)???(I question marked the date, as it is incorrect)
Antoine of Garanderie (1920…).
Philippe Meirieu (1949-…).

See too
Effect Pygmalion
Chronobiologie
Docimology
Psychopédagogie

Alternate schools
School of Summerhill
the House of children of Sevres
experimental College of Saint-Nazaire
Schools Steiner
Diwan
Seaska

Methods
mutual School
Training Collaboratif
Experimentation Computer-assisted (ExAO)
teaching E-learning
Coaching
mutual Teaching (Lernen durch Lehren - LdL)

On the descolarisation
Catherine Baker
Unschooling

The teaching of the adults
Andragogie
Coaching
Formation
Self-training
Popularization

External bonds
teaching Resources around Jules Verne
pedagogy of an author of literature of youth
to live together and not to educate!
the concept of pedagogy
Towards a socio-pedagogy of self-training, conference on line of Joffre Dumazedier. * Facultad de Pedagogia - Facultad de Pedadogia Veracruz (Mexico)"

Link: http://www.speedylook.com/Pedagogy.html


"Pestalozzi goes beyond Rousseau in that he sets out some concrete ways forward - based on research. He tried to reconcile the tension, recognized by Rousseau, between the education of the individual (for freedom) and that of the citizen (for responsibility and use). He looks to 'the achievement of freedom in autonomy for one and all' Soëtard 1994: 308).

His initial influence on the development of thinking about pedagogy owes much a book he published in 1801: How Gertrude Teaches Her Children - and the fact that he had carried his proposals through into practice. He wanted to establish a 'psychological method of instruction' that was in line with the 'laws of human nature. As a result he placed a special emphasis on spontaneity and self-activity. Children should not be given ready-made answers but should arrive at answers themselves. To do this their own powers of seeing, judging and reasoning should be cultivated, their self-activity encouraged (Silber 1965: 140). The aim is to educate the whole child - intellectual education is only part of a wider plan. He looked to balance, or keep in equilibrium, three elements - hands, heart and head."
© Mark K. Smith First published May 8, 1997. Last update: October 01, 2008

Link:http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-pest.htm

CONDUCTIVE WORLD
http://www.conductive-world.info/2009/01/whenhow-did-konduktv-pedaggia-and.html

http://www.conductive-world.info/2009/01/whenhow-did-konduktv-pedaggia-and.html

CONDUCTIVE EDUCATION LIBRARY
http://ce-library.blogspot.com/2009/01/when-did-konduktiv-pedaggia-become.html

Susie Mallett’s Conductor

http://konduktorin.blogspot.com/2009/01/questions-of-conductive-upbringing.html

Wednesday 14 January 2009

Autism

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."Albert Einstein




Talk About Curing Autism. An Introduction For New Parents.





Why current thinking about Autism is completely wrong




Einstein: The Autism Connection



http://www.oprah.com/media/20080926_orig_jenny_webcast3

Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy LOVE STORY
:))

'The world can only change from within'

"When you are present in this moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future.
Then true intelligence arises, and also love.
The only way love can come into your life is not through form, but through that inner spaciousness that is Presence.
Love has no form."

- Excerpt from Eckhart Tolle's Stillness Amidst the World

A New Earth - Jim Carrey


A New Earth - Jenny McCarthy


Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy LOVE STORY
:))

"This book’s main purpose is not to add new information or beliefs to your mind or to try to convince you of anything,but to bring about a shift in consciousness, that is to
say, to awaken. In that sense, this book is not “interesting.”
Interesting means you can keep your distance, play around with ideas and concepts in your mind, agree or disagree.
This book is about you. It will change your state of consciousness
or it will be meaningless.
It can only awaken those who are ready. Not everyone is ready yet, but many are, and with each person who awakens, the momentum in the collective consciousness grows, and it becomes easier for others. If you don’t know what awakening means, read on. Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word. A glimpse is enough to initiate the awakening process, which is irreversible.
For some, that glimpse will come while reading this book. For many others who may not even have realized it, the process has already begun.This book will help them recognize it. For some, it may have begun through loss or suffering; for others, through coming into contact with a spiritual teacher or teaching,through reading The Power of Now or some other spiritually alive and therefore transformational book—or any combination of the above. If the awakening process has begun in you, the reading of this book will accelerate and intensify it.
An essential part of the awakening is the recognition of
the unawakened you, the ego as it thinks, speaks, and acts, as well as the recognition of the collectively conditioned mental processes that perpetuate the unawakened state.

That is why this book shows the main aspects of the ego and how they operate in the individual as well as in the collective.
This is important for two related reasons: The first is that unless you know the basic mechanics behind the workings of the ego, you won’t recognize it, and it will trick you into identifying with it again and again.
This means it takes you over, an imposter pretending to be you.
The second reason is that the act of recognition itself is one
of the ways in which awakening happens. When you recognize the unconsciousness in you, that which makes the recognition possible is the arising consciousness, is awakening.
You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you
cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that is necessary. You are that light." Eckhart Tolle

Sunday 11 January 2009


About Empowering ‘The Big E’.

Empowering means that I value you and I respect you so much that I would like to remind you of your true nature, of your true inner being which is powerful beyond measures. I expect you that you will be able to find the way, which makes sense to you.

Expectation is a key word in our work. I also know and understand that while I am empowering you I feel empowered so we both benefit from the process.

When I am working with you and empowering you my intention is to assist you and encourage you to see your individuality and your ‘one off’ unique existence in this lifetime so you can see, feel and utilise the bigger part of yourself, which is based upon your wellness and your creative power.

It can be very ‘disempowering’ when people are told that they have a neurological disability or as a matter of fact any problem or illness. I could write a whole chapter on the horror stories, which I have heard of how people are diagnosed. So empowering parents and empowering children and adults who have to deal with disabilities means that we must help them to find the power (the natural forces of health and wellness within) to search for their own solutions. Solutions that they feel most comfortable to implement, live by and benefit from at that particular time of their lives.

We provide strategies, ways and means, which they can use as guiding posts in their search for their own solutions. Petö said (allegedly) … ‘ when you don’t know what to do, the children will show you the way’…

When we have to face issues/problems, which we find hard to overcome, we often but not always feel victims. We are looking out for help and searching for answers outside of ourselves…wanting someone to make us better, but not always. The strength and value of outside support must be based on empowering.

I have seen parents who brought their children to me and when I took the footwear off the children the splints they had on made the children’s feet bleed. When I asked the parents ‘did you see that?’ They said ‘yes, but the consultant told me that it is good for my child’. Some parents are kept so ‘disempowered’ that they even stop questioning and using common sense to help their own children. No wonder that they struggle and feel lost.

When we are facilitated to be in charge we can move mountains, when we see ourselves as victims we cannot get far.
This is what Petö thought me… don’t look at the ‘bad’ leg or ‘bad’ arm you cannot build on that… look at the person who moves the leg and the arm… Victims need someone to move their legs and arms. People in charge will find the way to move their own limbs, reorganise their own body in time and space and learn to function despite of their underlying conditions. Every single little movement, which is produced, has to start with the person becoming innervated then facilitation can be carried out by us. People can only become innervated when they are emotionally and psychologically involved and willing to participate thus empowered.
"Living every day of your life fully, including the hard ones.
Being the best you have it in you to be. And someday, being able to give something back."
Shirley Nelson