[Oe List ...] Ruth Carter -- Iron Woman

Wed Jul 31 08:10:25 PDT 2013

Would it be fair to say that IE is not itself curriculum but is rather the educational philosophy grounded in a practical methodology or process with which all the curricula we had, 5th City, Training Inc., RS-1, etc. was delivered?
Randy

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On Jul 31, 2013, at 8:57 AM, Paula Philbrook <paula.philbrook at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would say that the Imaginal Education was developed about the same historical time as the Fifth City Preschool curriculum. The intention of the curriculum was to be a grounding example of imaginal education.
> So the 4 parts of the preschool curriculum were 
> Basic
> Relational 
> Psychological ? 
> Imaginal
> Lela, Sarah, Kaze, . . .   and all the others:  
> maybe I do not have level 2 and 3 correct?
> 
> Paula
> 
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:43 AM, the telfords <thetelfords at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear Colleagues
>> Although I never actually met Ruth, her name and her contribution to our common mission is lodged in my memory.
>> 
>> Now, a question - was the curriculum which was developed in 5th City the foundation for what later became known as Imaginal Education?
>> 
>> This coming weekend the Blue Mountains East Timor Friendship Committee, which Elaine & I are members of, are hosting a visit by Dulce Soares, the East Timor government's Vice-Minister for Pre-School and Basic (primary) Education - the ET Government has recently launched a new Pre-School initiative to establish pre-schools widely across the nation and I understand they are at the stage of putting together a curriculum.
>> 
>> I was meeting with a couple of members of our organising team this morning and we were discussing what would be an appropriate gift to give to the Vice-Minister, and having just read about Ruth and the 5th City curriculum before I went to the meeting, I said I could possibly come up with a gift related to that.
>> 
>> Is there something I could download which at least would give her an introduction to our approach to early learning/development?
>> 
>> Any suggestions you can make in the next 24 hours will be most welcome.
>> 
>> Grace & Peace
>> John
>>  
>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Isobel A Bishop <isobeljimbish at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>>> Dear Lela,
>>> Thank you for this tribute to Ruth.
>>> I remember her very well at S '68, when a bunch of Aussie children came over.
>>> I did not know here well either, and yet was very impressed with her style of ease and  competence.
>>> 
>>> We appreciate what you all  have written..
>>> In peace,
>>> Isobel Bishop
>>> 
>>> On 31/07/2013, at 11:48 AM, Ken Fisher <hkf232 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> >
>>> > Likewise, Ken
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On 2013-07-30, at 4:19 PM, Charles Hahn wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hi Lela!  What a tribute!!!  I knew Ruth, but not that well.  Your
>>> > comments really hold her up for the world to see.  Thanks,
>>> > Charles
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Lela Jahn <lelajahn at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> >> Ruth and I were tied at the hip for the 3 years in the late 60's when I was
>>> >> the director of the 5th City Preschool and she was my right and left hand.
>>> >> She and I climbed many mountains together -- attending a national preschool
>>> >> workshop because the curriculum received a National 1st place award from the
>>> >> Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), receiving teaching machines from IBM
>>> >> for the 4 year olds which got our picture in the newspaper because of the
>>> >> audacity of believing machines could teach, making really cool uniforms for
>>> >> all the teachers, designing the new preschool building on 5th Avenue with
>>> >> Sheldon Hill ---  the list goes on and on. Yet there were also many valleys
>>> >> where Ruth never flinched, never complained. She stood firm in her belief
>>> >> that the 5th City Preschool was a demonstration to the world of the
>>> >> importance of  providing all children from 4 months on up with a positive
>>> >> self-image.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> In turn, Ruth Carter, became my mentor, my symbol,  of the Iron Woman
>>> >> standing in the desert with arms out stretched knowing that the desert could
>>> >> become the promised land. And it did because she lived --- and still does in
>>> >> the lives of all she touched.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Lela Jahn
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
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