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" In our work of Sensory Awareness, we experiment with all the simple activities of daily life, all the things which we have been doing since we were born, or which we have learned in our earliest infancy, such as walking, standing, sitting, lying, moving, resting, seeing, speaking, listening, etc. As Elsa Gindler said, “Life is the Playground for our work.” "
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Charlotte Selver (1901-2003) was a music educator and body awareness instructor born in Germany. In the 1920s, Selver studied piano and was also enrolled in the Dr. Rudolph Bode School for Expressive Movement, but later stopped her musical studies as a pianist after graduating due to her increasing hearing loss. Although this shift in her […]
Posted in HISTORIES
“We in the IRP represent a new venture for an institution of higher learning to accommodate the expanding educational demands of retired professionals…All of … [the New School’s] pioneering programs of the past and present will be publicized and subjected to public scrutiny, and the IRP will come in for its fair share of publicity. […]
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A pioneering experiment in peer learning, the Institute for Retired Professionals (IRP) at the New School was established in 1962 by a group of New York City schoolteachers seeking an opportunity to learn from and teach one another. Since that time, the IRP has helped to inspire the Lifelong Learning Institute (LLI) movement and more […]
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If visitors were to drop into an IRP study group, they might observe the following: the coordinator is perched on the table in the front of the room or sitting behind the desk or standing or walking around the front of the room. She asks a question of the group, and several hands go up. […]
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The diverse and experienced members of the IRP have backgrounds in the sciences, arts, business, academia, law and more. They support objectives of the New School through a variety of volunteer endeavors. This energetic, committed group reaches beyond the IRP’s core of developing and participating in the 30+ Study Groups each semester. IRP members enthusiastically […]
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The old building at 65 5th Avenue was awkward, badly lit, uninspiring, and ultimately, unsustainable. Of course the old building was never intended to serve as a functional academic facility. Until 1968, the building was used as a department store; ultimately, the University purchased and renovated the property to house the Graduate Faculty of the […]
Posted in In the Archives
Editor’s note: the publication date of this article reflects the date this article was added to the new version of The New School Histories website, not the original publication date. Please contact [email protected] with any questions. If someone told you that students from the New School are very open-minded, that would not be surprising. Obviously, the University […]
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Editor’s note: the publication date of this article reflects the date this article was added to the new version of The New School Histories website, not the original publication date. Please contact [email protected] with any questions. I started working in The New School Archives as an assistant on the audio collections of the school. Coming from Eastern […]
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Some principles on which the school was founded upon were academic freedom and the need to reinvigorate democracy. These core principles remain the same. As stated in the mission of the school today, “The New School’s future will be shaped by the core values that have defined our past: academic freedom, tolerance, and experimentation. In […]