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Lifelong Learning through the Arts
The Rose Harmony Children's Program reintroduces the concept of learning as an integral part of everyday family life in a non-institutional environment. A movement toward viewing one's life work as a lifelong unfolding process, is the essence of a vision of work as art. The Child is Essentially an Artist
Our view is that the child is developmentally an artist, and may only lose artistic instincts later in life. The Program seeks to preserve the wonderment for learning, and prepares children for life. Students work within a group of mixed ages. Through partnerships in Education we aim to expand the educational environment beyond the traditional institution.
Learning in a Non-Institutional SettingEach morning the school community gathers together for singing, seasonal stories and announcements. Following this there is a two-hour main lesson in arithmetic, language arts, history or science. Before the lesson is presented and books are opened, the children are bathed in rhythmic movement of all sorts, poetry, song, recitation, and joy ...
Teaching and TrainingRose Harmony trains future teachers and professional facilitators. Rose Harmony is staffed by trained professionals with expertise in artistic forms of education. An apprenticeship program offers teachers-in-training experience working with master teachers and works with therapists, physicians and artists to develop curricula within the artistic medium. Training programs and conferences are offered to individuals and groups seeking to create their own learning centers. A Learning Community of AdultsWhile the Rose Harmony Children's Program grew around the necessity of educating children, it has evolved into a center for supporting the development and education of both teachers and parents. Parents meet regularly to discuss issues as they arise in the educational process, and to share how to create learning environments in the home. This work is expected to be documented and available as research material on the Rose Harmony website.
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The necessity of educating our children evolves into self-development and self-education for the adults surrounding them: building community from inside out. A high quality of learning emerges when adult and child alike are involved in a process of development.
The Curriculum seeks to integrate the rigorous disciplines of literature, music, theater, movement and master crafts with the fundamental studies of arithmetic, reading, writing, foreign language, history, the natural and social sciences.
The place looks like a home, and then again it looks like a school. This large 19th Century country house does become quite school-like at 8:15 each Monday–Friday morning. The spirit of the home in the school and the school in the home, however, is, in fact, deeply intentional and is perfectly in synch with the idea that learning should take place in a familial environment.
Not everyone is able to be a great painter or musician — nor is this the goal of education. In most cases the individual benefits from exposure to all the arts but thrives in one or the other. The art of education consists of directing the process of working through the elements, the material of the arts, till they spark a unique and individual awakening: self knowledge.
This awakening to oneself, and thus to the world, needs to occur again and again if maturity is to be achieved. All human beings need to awaken to the possibility of self mastery to gain access to those ultimate arts which belong to all: the art of thinking, the art of acting morally, the art of life itself.