Trailing Clouds of Glory - Essays on Human Sexuality and the Education of Youth

From the clear thinking heart of expert on teaching teenagers, Douglas Gerwin, comes this exceptional collection of thought provoking and information-packed series of essays on all the practicalities and mysteries of human sexuality and the coming of puberty. Every parent and every teacher of students from age eleven up needs this book! It fills the imagination with rich and straightforward ways to explain to the young why sexuality os so rewarding and so challenging! Here is a gift for which every recipient will thank you. On experienced high school teacher said, "I so wish I had this book ten years ago!" Every aspect of the mystique of human sexuality is addressed from embryology through to AIDS and same-sex relationships. The book was twelve years in the collecting and assembling, so carefully done and thoughtfully put together it is.

About the author

Douglas Gerwin is co-director of the Research Institute for Waldorf Education in the USA. He has taught in Waldorf schools for more than twenty-five years. He lives in Massachusetts.

Summary

Brings together insights from experienced Waldorf teachers into how to approach the important but challenging subjects of gender and sexuality. Suitable for Classes 7 to 12.

Product details

• Assisted by: Douglas Gerwin (Editor), Douglas J. W. Gerwin (Editor), Gerwin Douglas (Editor), Margaret Gorman (Editor), Catherine Creeger (Translation)
• Publisher: BookSource
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.02.2015
• EAN: 9781936367603
• ISBN: 978-1-936367-60-3
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 753 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Teaching of a specific subject, Primary & middle schools, Educational: Personal, social & health education (PSHE), Primary and middle schools, Educational: Citizenship and social education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Elementary, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Health & Sexuality