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Friday, May 25, 2007
Review of Working with Wonder
Working With Wonder'A Handbook for Holistic Education in Natural Sciences'
Review by J. L. Marais (See "Learning with Granny")
Working With Wonder by Ruth Rabinowitz is not a glossy reference book for children. It is, however, a comprehensive 294 page handbook on sharing natural sciences with the young.
The book is full of unique resources to assist the teacher, parent or grandparent to raise the learners level of expectations of themselves and give them confidence to want to participate in the lesson at whatever level of learning they are at. It will draw a positive response and the enthusiasm to investigate our youth's own choice of natural 'wonder'.
As I turned the pages, along the path that Ruth Rabinowitz has traveled to compile this publication, I re-lived my own life and supplemented a past of my own - which we all have and can all share with the young developing minds of the learner. Her valuable handbook is an inspiration to teachers to use those inborn traits that led them to choosing education as a career.
As a medical doctor and a student of science herself, Dr. Rabinowitz MP, has meticulously categorized some of the ways that the subjects in all fields of Natural Science can be enjoyed and understood.
From her experience in creativity groups, dance and drama teaching, she shares examples for group participation in her valuable publication.
Working with Wonder...To examine the facts with practical experiment or established confirmation.To appreciate the myths, their meanings and purpose.To express silently in mimeTo play fairly in the gameTo characterize with art *To express rhythmically in danceTo compose emotionally in dramaTo explore memory and meaning in music.
The handbook contains numerous diagrams *(visual learning) in various levels of difficulty - for ages 6-18 years.
Working With Wonder dedicates a chapter to poetry, with some well known verses by classic writers as well as some South African poets. Poetry is very much at the forefront in this handbook. I have found poetry to be one of the finest ways of understanding, retaining and expressing knowledge as well as feelings. Teachers will derive great pleasure in sharing and participating in this time tested holistic teaching method.
Dr. Rabinowitz quotes the late Carl Sagan on the importance of dynamic education: "As a result of the rapid social and technological changes over the last few centuries, the World is not working so well. The solution is to teach people to think, not only analytically, but creatively and conceptually as well."
As I closed the book, a verse by the late R. L. Stevenson came to mind."The World is so full of such wonderful thingsWe should all be as happy - as happy as kings"
More Information:
Book Title: Working With Wonder 'A Handbook for Holistic Education in Natural Sciences'
Author: Ruth Rabinowitz
Published Aug. 2002© Ruth RabinowitzISBN: 0-620-28822-1
For purchasing details e-mail biorabinowitz@yahoo.com
Science in Africa - Africa's First On-Line Science Magazine
Copyright 2002, Janice Limson. All Rights Reserved
Review by J. L. Marais (See "Learning with Granny")
Working With Wonder by Ruth Rabinowitz is not a glossy reference book for children. It is, however, a comprehensive 294 page handbook on sharing natural sciences with the young.
The book is full of unique resources to assist the teacher, parent or grandparent to raise the learners level of expectations of themselves and give them confidence to want to participate in the lesson at whatever level of learning they are at. It will draw a positive response and the enthusiasm to investigate our youth's own choice of natural 'wonder'.
As I turned the pages, along the path that Ruth Rabinowitz has traveled to compile this publication, I re-lived my own life and supplemented a past of my own - which we all have and can all share with the young developing minds of the learner. Her valuable handbook is an inspiration to teachers to use those inborn traits that led them to choosing education as a career.
As a medical doctor and a student of science herself, Dr. Rabinowitz MP, has meticulously categorized some of the ways that the subjects in all fields of Natural Science can be enjoyed and understood.
From her experience in creativity groups, dance and drama teaching, she shares examples for group participation in her valuable publication.
Working with Wonder...To examine the facts with practical experiment or established confirmation.To appreciate the myths, their meanings and purpose.To express silently in mimeTo play fairly in the gameTo characterize with art *To express rhythmically in danceTo compose emotionally in dramaTo explore memory and meaning in music.
The handbook contains numerous diagrams *(visual learning) in various levels of difficulty - for ages 6-18 years.
Working With Wonder dedicates a chapter to poetry, with some well known verses by classic writers as well as some South African poets. Poetry is very much at the forefront in this handbook. I have found poetry to be one of the finest ways of understanding, retaining and expressing knowledge as well as feelings. Teachers will derive great pleasure in sharing and participating in this time tested holistic teaching method.
Dr. Rabinowitz quotes the late Carl Sagan on the importance of dynamic education: "As a result of the rapid social and technological changes over the last few centuries, the World is not working so well. The solution is to teach people to think, not only analytically, but creatively and conceptually as well."
As I closed the book, a verse by the late R. L. Stevenson came to mind."The World is so full of such wonderful thingsWe should all be as happy - as happy as kings"
More Information:
Book Title: Working With Wonder 'A Handbook for Holistic Education in Natural Sciences'
Author: Ruth Rabinowitz
Published Aug. 2002© Ruth RabinowitzISBN: 0-620-28822-1
For purchasing details e-mail biorabinowitz@yahoo.com
Science in Africa - Africa's First On-Line Science Magazine
Copyright 2002, Janice Limson. All Rights Reserved
WORKING WITH WONDER
Working with Wonder is an educator’s handbook for the holistic teaching of natural and social sciences, for persons aged 6 to 16 or 60. It has fourteen chapters which respond to questions one asks about the world: How did it originate? How does it work? What makes humans different from animals? How have people changed the natural world? How do we live in a world with AIDS? Chapters include The Origin of the Universe; The Structure of the Atom; Evolution; How the Body works; Emotions; Civilization; Justice; Discoveries and Inventions; Earth Air Fire and Water- the Environment; and 5 others. It includes elements of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Archaeology,
History, Life Sciences and Earth Sciences.
The book makes learning experiential and fun, rather than a mere accumulation of facts. Each chapter comprises Scientific Facts; Games Movement and Mime; Stories or legends for dramatization for three age groups ( 6-8,9-11,12 upwards); Art Music and Dance projects; Projects for work at home; Experiential Drama (for 3 age groups), whereby groups of learners identify problems in their communities and respond to them using information from the related chapter.
This form of right and left brained learning gives people an understanding of the way the world works, fosters their creativity and entrepreneurship by teaching them how to solve problems by asking the right questions, a skill which set Albert Einstein apart from most other scientists.
In his Foreword to the book, Minister of Education, Professor Kader Asmal wrote:
Working with Wonder provides a host of teaching approaches that may be used at many levels. The text supports group work and role-play, brings drama into the science classroom and science into the language class. The diversity of human kind is celebrated.
One of the tragedies of the reliance on textbook bound forms of education has been the silencing of oral traditional modes of leaning. A book such as this begins to open those neglected areas and shows to all those who would see, just how powerful the oral mode may be in reaching the emotions. This is especially important where group methods are introduced. By encouraging oral participation one moves beyond the chore of rote memorization into a domain where learning might be enjoyable.
This is a book that strives to develop the skills that learners need to collect, analyze, organize and critically evaluate all information. And this is what our national qualifications framework seeks to achieve. As such Working with Wonder is a pioneering text that has a comfortable fit with where our outcomes based education system is heading. I am confident that teachers and learners will find much that is useful and indeed inspirational in this valuable contribution to a transformed curriculum.
He later added:“ This truly unique resource book reflects your passion as an educator. For this I am most grateful as I am sure many teachers and pupils will be in the years to come.”
In an interview with author Ruth Rabinowitz on radio 702 Barry Ronge stated:
“ Working with Wonder strips away the dullness from education. You provide facts but expand them with fantasy and mythology. If you work with it you understand why and how things are; you learn problem solving by asking questions that allow you to solve them.
It would be wonderful if you could find a sponsor to put a copy of this book into every library or better still, give one to every teacher for use in the classroom. Do people who have a track record in fostering education understand how valuable a book like this is? It connects people with each other and the world, and with the potential in themselves!”
Teachers at Crawford Schools had the following to say: “Please send us more copies of your Wonderful book. The teachers have gone dilly about it.”
Science in Africa on line science magazine editor J.L Marais states:
“As I turned the pages along the path that Ruth Rabinowitz has traveled to compile this publication, I relived my own life and supplemented a past of my own-which we all have and can share with the young developing minds of the learner. Her valuable handbook is an inspiration to teachers to use those inborn traits that led them to choosing education as a career.
As a medical doctor and scientist herself Dr Rabinowitz has meticulously categorized some of the ways that subjects in all fields of Natural Science can be enjoyed and understood. From her experience in creativity groups, dance and drama teaching, she shares examples for group participation in her valuable publication;
Working with Wonder…..
To examine the facts with practical experiment
To appreciate the myths , their meaning and purpose,
To express silently in mime
To characterize with art
To express rhythmically in dance
To compose emotionally in drama
To explore memory and meaning in music
Working with Wonder dedicates a chapter to poetry, with some well known verses as well as some South African poets. I have found poetry one of the finest ways of understanding, retaining and expressing knowledge as well as feelings. Teachers will derive great pleasure in sharing this time tested holistic teaching method.
The late Carl Sagan, commenting on the importance of dynamic education said: As a result of the rapid social and technological changes over the last few centuries, the world is not working well. The solution is to teach people to think, not only analytically, but creatively and conceptually as well. As I closed the book, a verse by the last Robert Louis Stevenson came to mind “the world is so full of such wonderful things, we all should be as happy as happy as kings.”
Working with Wonder is an educator’s handbook for the holistic teaching of natural and social sciences, for persons aged 6 to 16 or 60. It has fourteen chapters which respond to questions one asks about the world: How did it originate? How does it work? What makes humans different from animals? How have people changed the natural world? How do we live in a world with AIDS? Chapters include The Origin of the Universe; The Structure of the Atom; Evolution; How the Body works; Emotions; Civilization; Justice; Discoveries and Inventions; Earth Air Fire and Water- the Environment; and 5 others. It includes elements of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Archaeology,
History, Life Sciences and Earth Sciences.
The book makes learning experiential and fun, rather than a mere accumulation of facts. Each chapter comprises Scientific Facts; Games Movement and Mime; Stories or legends for dramatization for three age groups ( 6-8,9-11,12 upwards); Art Music and Dance projects; Projects for work at home; Experiential Drama (for 3 age groups), whereby groups of learners identify problems in their communities and respond to them using information from the related chapter.
This form of right and left brained learning gives people an understanding of the way the world works, fosters their creativity and entrepreneurship by teaching them how to solve problems by asking the right questions, a skill which set Albert Einstein apart from most other scientists.
In his Foreword to the book, Minister of Education, Professor Kader Asmal wrote:
Working with Wonder provides a host of teaching approaches that may be used at many levels. The text supports group work and role-play, brings drama into the science classroom and science into the language class. The diversity of human kind is celebrated.
One of the tragedies of the reliance on textbook bound forms of education has been the silencing of oral traditional modes of leaning. A book such as this begins to open those neglected areas and shows to all those who would see, just how powerful the oral mode may be in reaching the emotions. This is especially important where group methods are introduced. By encouraging oral participation one moves beyond the chore of rote memorization into a domain where learning might be enjoyable.
This is a book that strives to develop the skills that learners need to collect, analyze, organize and critically evaluate all information. And this is what our national qualifications framework seeks to achieve. As such Working with Wonder is a pioneering text that has a comfortable fit with where our outcomes based education system is heading. I am confident that teachers and learners will find much that is useful and indeed inspirational in this valuable contribution to a transformed curriculum.
He later added:“ This truly unique resource book reflects your passion as an educator. For this I am most grateful as I am sure many teachers and pupils will be in the years to come.”
In an interview with author Ruth Rabinowitz on radio 702 Barry Ronge stated:
“ Working with Wonder strips away the dullness from education. You provide facts but expand them with fantasy and mythology. If you work with it you understand why and how things are; you learn problem solving by asking questions that allow you to solve them.
It would be wonderful if you could find a sponsor to put a copy of this book into every library or better still, give one to every teacher for use in the classroom. Do people who have a track record in fostering education understand how valuable a book like this is? It connects people with each other and the world, and with the potential in themselves!”
Teachers at Crawford Schools had the following to say: “Please send us more copies of your Wonderful book. The teachers have gone dilly about it.”
Science in Africa on line science magazine editor J.L Marais states:
“As I turned the pages along the path that Ruth Rabinowitz has traveled to compile this publication, I relived my own life and supplemented a past of my own-which we all have and can share with the young developing minds of the learner. Her valuable handbook is an inspiration to teachers to use those inborn traits that led them to choosing education as a career.
As a medical doctor and scientist herself Dr Rabinowitz has meticulously categorized some of the ways that subjects in all fields of Natural Science can be enjoyed and understood. From her experience in creativity groups, dance and drama teaching, she shares examples for group participation in her valuable publication;
Working with Wonder…..
To examine the facts with practical experiment
To appreciate the myths , their meaning and purpose,
To express silently in mime
To characterize with art
To express rhythmically in dance
To compose emotionally in drama
To explore memory and meaning in music
Working with Wonder dedicates a chapter to poetry, with some well known verses as well as some South African poets. I have found poetry one of the finest ways of understanding, retaining and expressing knowledge as well as feelings. Teachers will derive great pleasure in sharing this time tested holistic teaching method.
The late Carl Sagan, commenting on the importance of dynamic education said: As a result of the rapid social and technological changes over the last few centuries, the world is not working well. The solution is to teach people to think, not only analytically, but creatively and conceptually as well. As I closed the book, a verse by the last Robert Louis Stevenson came to mind “the world is so full of such wonderful things, we all should be as happy as happy as kings.”
Working with Wonder
WORKING WITH WONDER
Working with Wonder is an educator’s handbook for the holistic teaching of natural and social sciences, for persons aged 6 to 16 or 60. It has fourteen chapters which respond to questions one asks about the world: How did it originate? How does it work? What makes humans different from animals? How have people changed the natural world? How do we live in a world with AIDS? Chapters include The Origin of the Universe; The Structure of the Atom; Evolution; How the Body works; Emotions; Civilization; Justice; Discoveries and Inventions; Earth Air Fire and Water- the Environment; and 5 others. It includes elements of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Archaeology,
History, Life Sciences and Earth Sciences.
The book makes learning experiential and fun, rather than a mere accumulation of facts. Each chapter comprises Scientific Facts; Games Movement and Mime; Stories or legends for dramatization for three age groups ( 6-8,9-11,12 upwards); Art Music and Dance projects; Projects for work at home; Experiential Drama (for 3 age groups), whereby groups of learners identify problems in their communities and respond to them using information from the related chapter.
This form of right and left brained learning gives people an understanding of the way the world works, fosters their creativity and entrepreneurship by teaching them how to solve problems by asking the right questions, a skill which set Albert Einstein apart from most other scientists.
In his Foreword to the book, Minister of Education, Professor Kader Asmal wrote:
Working with Wonder provides a host of teaching approaches that may be used at many levels. The text supports group work and role-play, brings drama into the science classroom and science into the language class. The diversity of human kind is celebrated.
One of the tragedies of the reliance on textbook bound forms of education has been the silencing of oral traditional modes of leaning. A book such as this begins to open those neglected areas and shows to all those who would see, just how powerful the oral mode may be in reaching the emotions. This is especially important where group methods are introduced. By encouraging oral participation one moves beyond the chore of rote memorization into a domain where learning might be enjoyable.
This is a book that strives to develop the skills that learners need to collect, analyze, organize and critically evaluate all information. And this is what our national qualifications framework seeks to achieve. As such Working with Wonder is a pioneering text that has a comfortable fit with where our outcomes based education system is heading. I am confident that teachers and learners will find much that is useful and indeed inspirational in this valuable contribution to a transformed curriculum.
He later added:“ This truly unique resource book reflects your passion as an educator. For this I am most grateful as I am sure many teachers and pupils will be in the years to come.”
In an interview with author Ruth Rabinowitz on radio 702 Barry Ronge stated:
“ Working with Wonder strips away the dullness from education. You provide facts but expand them with fantasy and mythology. If you work with it you understand why and how things are; you learn problem solving by asking questions that allow you to solve them.
It would be wonderful if you could find a sponsor to put a copy of this book into every library or better still, give one to every teacher for use in the classroom. Do people who have a track record in fostering education understand how valuable a book like this is? It connects people with each other and the world, and with the potential in themselves!”
Teachers at Crawford Schools had the following to say: “Please send us more copies of your Wonderful book. The teachers have gone dilly about it.”
Science in Africa on line science magazine editor J.L Marais states:
“As I turned the pages along the path that Ruth Rabinowitz has traveled to compile this publication, I relived my own life and supplemented a past of my own-which we all have and can share with the young developing minds of the learner. Her valuable handbook is an inspiration to teachers to use those inborn traits that led them to choosing education as a career.
As a medical doctor and scientist herself Dr Rabinowitz has meticulously categorized some of the ways that subjects in all fields of Natural Science can be enjoyed and understood. From her experience in creativity groups, dance and drama teaching, she shares examples for group participation in her valuable publication;
Working with Wonder…..
To examine the facts with practical experiment
To appreciate the myths , their meaning and purpose,
To express silently in mime
To characterize with art
To express rhythmically in dance
To compose emotionally in drama
To explore memory and meaning in music
Working with Wonder dedicates a chapter to poetry, with some well known verses as well as some South African poets. I have found poetry one of the finest ways of understanding, retaining and expressing knowledge as well as feelings. Teachers will derive great pleasure in sharing this time tested holistic teaching method.
The late Carl Sagan, commenting on the importance of dynamic education said: As a result of the rapid social and technological changes over the last few centuries, the world is not working well. The solution is to teach people to think, not only analytically, but creatively and conceptually as well. As I closed the book, a verse by the last Robert Louis Stevenson came to mind “the world is so full of such wonderful things, we all should be as happy as happy as kings.”
Working with Wonder is an educator’s handbook for the holistic teaching of natural and social sciences, for persons aged 6 to 16 or 60. It has fourteen chapters which respond to questions one asks about the world: How did it originate? How does it work? What makes humans different from animals? How have people changed the natural world? How do we live in a world with AIDS? Chapters include The Origin of the Universe; The Structure of the Atom; Evolution; How the Body works; Emotions; Civilization; Justice; Discoveries and Inventions; Earth Air Fire and Water- the Environment; and 5 others. It includes elements of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Archaeology,
History, Life Sciences and Earth Sciences.
The book makes learning experiential and fun, rather than a mere accumulation of facts. Each chapter comprises Scientific Facts; Games Movement and Mime; Stories or legends for dramatization for three age groups ( 6-8,9-11,12 upwards); Art Music and Dance projects; Projects for work at home; Experiential Drama (for 3 age groups), whereby groups of learners identify problems in their communities and respond to them using information from the related chapter.
This form of right and left brained learning gives people an understanding of the way the world works, fosters their creativity and entrepreneurship by teaching them how to solve problems by asking the right questions, a skill which set Albert Einstein apart from most other scientists.
In his Foreword to the book, Minister of Education, Professor Kader Asmal wrote:
Working with Wonder provides a host of teaching approaches that may be used at many levels. The text supports group work and role-play, brings drama into the science classroom and science into the language class. The diversity of human kind is celebrated.
One of the tragedies of the reliance on textbook bound forms of education has been the silencing of oral traditional modes of leaning. A book such as this begins to open those neglected areas and shows to all those who would see, just how powerful the oral mode may be in reaching the emotions. This is especially important where group methods are introduced. By encouraging oral participation one moves beyond the chore of rote memorization into a domain where learning might be enjoyable.
This is a book that strives to develop the skills that learners need to collect, analyze, organize and critically evaluate all information. And this is what our national qualifications framework seeks to achieve. As such Working with Wonder is a pioneering text that has a comfortable fit with where our outcomes based education system is heading. I am confident that teachers and learners will find much that is useful and indeed inspirational in this valuable contribution to a transformed curriculum.
He later added:“ This truly unique resource book reflects your passion as an educator. For this I am most grateful as I am sure many teachers and pupils will be in the years to come.”
In an interview with author Ruth Rabinowitz on radio 702 Barry Ronge stated:
“ Working with Wonder strips away the dullness from education. You provide facts but expand them with fantasy and mythology. If you work with it you understand why and how things are; you learn problem solving by asking questions that allow you to solve them.
It would be wonderful if you could find a sponsor to put a copy of this book into every library or better still, give one to every teacher for use in the classroom. Do people who have a track record in fostering education understand how valuable a book like this is? It connects people with each other and the world, and with the potential in themselves!”
Teachers at Crawford Schools had the following to say: “Please send us more copies of your Wonderful book. The teachers have gone dilly about it.”
Science in Africa on line science magazine editor J.L Marais states:
“As I turned the pages along the path that Ruth Rabinowitz has traveled to compile this publication, I relived my own life and supplemented a past of my own-which we all have and can share with the young developing minds of the learner. Her valuable handbook is an inspiration to teachers to use those inborn traits that led them to choosing education as a career.
As a medical doctor and scientist herself Dr Rabinowitz has meticulously categorized some of the ways that subjects in all fields of Natural Science can be enjoyed and understood. From her experience in creativity groups, dance and drama teaching, she shares examples for group participation in her valuable publication;
Working with Wonder…..
To examine the facts with practical experiment
To appreciate the myths , their meaning and purpose,
To express silently in mime
To characterize with art
To express rhythmically in dance
To compose emotionally in drama
To explore memory and meaning in music
Working with Wonder dedicates a chapter to poetry, with some well known verses as well as some South African poets. I have found poetry one of the finest ways of understanding, retaining and expressing knowledge as well as feelings. Teachers will derive great pleasure in sharing this time tested holistic teaching method.
The late Carl Sagan, commenting on the importance of dynamic education said: As a result of the rapid social and technological changes over the last few centuries, the world is not working well. The solution is to teach people to think, not only analytically, but creatively and conceptually as well. As I closed the book, a verse by the last Robert Louis Stevenson came to mind “the world is so full of such wonderful things, we all should be as happy as happy as kings.”
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