<font color="#000000"><font><font face="comic sans ms,sans-serif">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.</font></font></font><div>
<font color="#000000"><font><font face="comic sans ms,sans-serif">So the 4 parts of the preschool curriculum were </font></font></font></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><font color="#000000"><font><font face="comic sans ms,sans-serif">Basic</font></font></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><font color="#000000"><font><font face="comic sans ms,sans-serif">Relational </font></font></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><font color="#000000"><font><font face="comic sans ms,sans-serif">Psychological ? </font></font></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><font color="#000000"><font><font face="comic sans ms,sans-serif">Imaginal</font></font></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">Lela, Sarah, Kaze, . . . and all the others: </span></div>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">maybe I do not have level 2 and 3 correct?</span></div>
</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div><font color="#000000"><font><font face="comic sans ms,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font><font face="comic sans ms,sans-serif">Paula<br>
</font></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:43 AM, the telfords <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thetelfords@gmail.com" target="_blank">thetelfords@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>Dear Colleagues<br>Although I never actually met Ruth, her name and her contribution to our common mission is lodged in my memory.<br><br>Now, a question - was the curriculum which was developed in 5th City the foundation for what later became known as Imaginal Education?<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>Is there something I could download which at least would give her an introduction to our approach to early learning/development?<br><br>Any suggestions you can make in the next 24 hours will be most welcome.<br><br>Grace & Peace<br>
John<br> <br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Isobel A Bishop <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:isobeljimbish@optusnet.com.au" target="_blank">isobeljimbish@optusnet.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear Lela,<br>
Thank you for this tribute to Ruth.<br>
I remember her very well at S '68, when a bunch of Aussie children came over.<br>
I did not know here well either, and yet was very impressed with her style of ease and competence.<br>
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We appreciate what you all have written..<br>
In peace,<br>
Isobel Bishop<br>
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On 31/07/2013, at 11:48 AM, Ken Fisher <<a href="mailto:hkf232@gmail.com" target="_blank">hkf232@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Likewise, Ken<br>
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> On 2013-07-30, at 4:19 PM, Charles Hahn wrote:<br>
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> Hi Lela! What a tribute!!! I knew Ruth, but not that well. Your<br>
> comments really hold her up for the world to see. Thanks,<br>
> Charles<br>
><br>
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Lela Jahn <<a href="mailto:lelajahn@hotmail.com" target="_blank">lelajahn@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Ruth and I were tied at the hip for the 3 years in the late 60's when I was<br>
>> the director of the 5th City Preschool and she was my right and left hand.<br>
>> She and I climbed many mountains together -- attending a national preschool<br>
>> workshop because the curriculum received a National 1st place award from the<br>
>> Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), receiving teaching machines from IBM<br>
>> for the 4 year olds which got our picture in the newspaper because of the<br>
>> audacity of believing machines could teach, making really cool uniforms for<br>
>> all the teachers, designing the new preschool building on 5th Avenue with<br>
>> Sheldon Hill --- the list goes on and on. Yet there were also many valleys<br>
>> where Ruth never flinched, never complained. She stood firm in her belief<br>
>> that the 5th City Preschool was a demonstration to the world of the<br>
>> importance of providing all children from 4 months on up with a positive<br>
>> self-image.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> In turn, Ruth Carter, became my mentor, my symbol, of the Iron Woman<br>
>> standing in the desert with arms out stretched knowing that the desert could<br>
>> become the promised land. And it did because she lived --- and still does in<br>
>> the lives of all she touched.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Lela Jahn<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div>Paula <br><br><font size="1" color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif"><em>Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow</em>.</font></div>
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