This book tells something of what Tsad Kadima has done in Israel, and what this has achieved. It recounts something of the process of creating the ‘Tsad Kadima family’, which has developed over the years in a manner unique within the world of Conductive Education. This includes the vital matter of sustainability, Tsad Kadima demonstrating the potential for national Conductive Education systems to reproduce themselves and evolve for the benefit of generations to come.
Conductive Education Press
Another electronic book from Conductive Education Press
The CEP quotationary of Andras Peto and his Conductive Education, first published in 2013, is now available as a pdf for £4.00 (no postage!) as well as the traditional book format.
The back cover blurb of the book says :
This quotationary’s 307 quotations contribute some distilled essence, including 48 sayings or reported sayings from the man himself, plus vivid direct reports from friends and associates, and the observations of some of those who have tried to nail his fleeting shadow.
These quotations come from 40 named sources, and are referenced to 15 different texts.
For further information and to order a copy in either format, please go to
http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/4627506-cep-quotationary-of-andr-s-pet
New book from Conductive Education Press
Schenker, R., ed. Genesis; bringing Conductive Education to Israel. Birmingham: Conductive Education Press, Jerusalem: Tsad Kadima
In the summer Conductive Education Press was asked by Tsad Kadima (Israel) if we would publish their story to celebrate 30 years of the organisation. Naturally we agreed, and are very pleased to announce that the book, Genesis, edited by Rony Schenker and published jointly by Conductive Education Press and Tsad Kadima, is now available. An abstract on the back cover states:
This book tells something of what Tsad Kadima has done in Israel, and what this has achieved. It recounts something of the process of creating the ‘Tsad Kadima family’, which has developed over the years in a manner unique within the world of Conductive Education. This includes the vital matter of sustainability, Tsad Kadima demonstrating the potential for national Conductive Education systems to reproduce themselves and evolve for the benefit of generations to come.
The book is the result of a lot of hard work by the final year students of the Israeli conductor training course who interviewed the parents and the professionals involved in bringing Conductive Education to Israel. It highlights the unique perspective and determination of Israeli parents 30 years ago, an example to us all.
There is an early bird price for the book of £5.00 (plus postage and packing) on the occasion of the coming 9th World Congress of Conductive Education in Budapest.
Copies can be ordered via this link
http://www.blurb.co.uk/user/cepress
Conductive Education e-books
For some time now I have been getting Google alerts for someone offering free pdf downloads of Conductive Education e-books. These titles seem very unlikely candidates for this, as they must still be in copyright with the publishers even though they date from the 1980s, so I assume they are some sort of scam to get access to people’s details. How it works I haven’t a clue!
I am sure most people are ignoring these offers for one reason or another but I suggest that those of you who are tempted, you resist.
E-books are a wonderful thing in the right place and time, but perhaps not for out dated Conductive Education material. Conductive Education Press is considering offering e-versions of some of its books but no decision has been made yet.
If you are interested let us know.
How many recent books on Conductive Education?
Conductive Education Press has another book in the pipeline and that made we wonder just how many books on Conductive Education have been published in the past five years or so. I was surprised to see that there have been quite a few, from a variety of countries – UK, Sweden, Finland, Hong Kong, Hungary, Germany, – in a variety of languages – English, German, Hungarian, Chinese.
This is a list of what I found:
2010
Abstract book of 7th World Congress. Hong Kong: SAHK.
Airaksinen, Leena and Carlstedt, Ingrid, ed. Conductive Education – towards an integrated school day. Alvsjo and Helsinki: Joriel School and Ruskeasuo School.
Beck, Éva Task series in Conductive Education. Budapest: MPANNI.
Graham, Jo, McGuigan, Chas and Maguire, Gillian, ed. Intelligent love. Birmingham: Conductive Education Press.
Mallett, Susie Let me tell you a story. Nürnberg: Conductor Nürnberg.
Sutton, Andrew and Maguire, Gillian, ed. Internationalising Conductive Education. Birmingham: Conductive Education Press.
2011
Sutton, Andrew Last Year in Hong Kong. Birmingham: Conductive Education Press.
Mallett, Susie 引导式育成及生活方式:请你听我讲故事作者
苏丝‧马勒 [Chinese edition of Susie Mallett’s Let me tell you a story]
2012
Heußinger, Waltraud ‘Er kam wie ein Blitz aus heiterem Himmel’/’It came like a bolt from the blue’. Edited by Susie Mallett. Nürnberg: Conductor Nürnberg.
Maguire, Gillian and Sutton, Andrew András Pető. Birmingham: Conductive Education Press.
Noel, Jessica Conductive Education pocket book. [online] Noel. [Available at https://issuu.com/jessicakatenoel/docs/cepocketbook
2013
Abstract book of 8th World Congress. Munich: Bavarian Association CE Pető e.V.
Bugya, Évi Konduktives Kochbuch: Pfannkuchen nach konduktiver Art / Conductive Cookery Book: pancakes conductive style. Nürnberg: Cila.
CEP quotationary. Birmingham: Conductive Education Press.
McDowell, George. George’s travelogue/Urlauberlebnisse. Edited by Susie Mallett. Nürnberg: Conductor Nürnberg.
Strzałkowski, Ralph Never, never quit: my Conductive Education. Birmingham: Conductive Education Press.
Tatlow, Anita Konduktive Förderung Fur Kinder Und Jugendliche Mit Zerebralparese. Munich: Landesverband Bayern Konduktive Förderung nach Pető e.V
2015
Kollega Tarsoly István, ed. Emlékkönyv Dr Hári Mária 1923-2001. Budapest: Pető András Főiskola.
Have I missed any, I wonder? Please let me know if I have.
World Book Day – hurrah for books, hurrah for Conductive Education books!
Books have always been a very important part of my life and seem to be everywhere in my house. Today is World Book Day and most libraries and book shops will be making a bit of a splash about it. I wonder how much promotion Conductive Education books will get in libraries of all kinds, including those holding significant amounts of material, and bookshops.
Since 2010 nineteen books have been published on CE, with Conductive Education Press producing seven titles covering various aspects – international development, young conductors going out into the working world, parents experiences, András Pető, and memories of Conductive Education received as a child.
http://www.blurb.com/user/cepress
Copies can be ordered by clicking on a title at
http://www.blurb.com/user/store/cepress
There are ideas for several more and a new publication will come out soon to celebrate the variety of information on the subject.
Get reading!
Book Sale ends 30 November
Just a few days left!
CEP
Conductive Education Press
A SURPRISE AD HOC BOOK SALE
SALE LASTS UNTIL
30 November
CEP has aquired a small stock of books from conductor Susie Mallett’s publishing house
CONDUCTOR NÜRNBERG
‘An extraordinary conductor’ – Professor Franz Schaffhauser
For just three weeks CEP offers a reduced price for copies of three of CN’s books for £ 3.00 each
Let me tell you a story, Susie Mallett
Half-a-dozen essays around conductive pedagogy and upbringing with children and adults
In English, 50 pages, illustrated by the author, colour
(The Chinese edition of this book is not in the present sale)
It came like a bolt from a blue, Waltraud Heussinger
A post-stroke story in words and pictures, with additional contributions by Werner Heussinger and Susie Mallett
In English and in German (parallel texts), 50 pages, photographs by Wernerr Heussinger, colour
George’s travelogue, George McDowell
Stories of travel and conductive living, with additional contributions by Susie Mallett Emma McDowell and Andrew Sutton.
In English and in German (parallel texts), 82 pages, illustrated, colour
2. CEP also has a very small stock of ‘seconds’, pre-proof copies of one of its own books, offered at the sale price of £5.00 each
András Pető, compiled and edited by Gillian Maguire and Andrew Sutton
András Pető in his own words, and the words of others, with additional contributions by Judit Forrai, Jo LeBeer and Reuven Feuerstein
Text in English, with facsimiles of some of András Pető’s poems and technical writing in Hungarian and German, 281 pages, indexed, black and white £ 5.00 each
Copies of this book, as published, and all CEP’s other publications are available to buy on line in the usual way, at their regular prices. See the catalogue and order on line:
http://www.blurb.co.uk/user/store/cepress
Remember, this sale closes
30 November
SALE ORDERS
Order on line by emailing editors.cep@gmail.com, naming the books that you want to buy and how many copies you require – and what country you want them sent to.
Your order will be weighed and its postage calculated. You will be sent an invoice by email and on receipt of payment your order will be despatched through the post. Payment will be via Paypal, please.
Conductive Education Press Sale Ending Soon
There are only a few days left of this Conductive Education Press sale. Prices have been reduced by a third and this must end at midnight of 7 October.
See below for details:
Pető Studies
Original source material for presentations, assignments, dissertations, and private reflection – the only centralised resource yet for exploring who he was, and what he did and said
András Pető
Published 2012
http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/3695419-andr-s-pet
Still the only book available on the mysterious founder of Conductive Education, with some of his own writings including examples of his poetry
Illustrated
SALE PRICE £12.00
CE Quotationary of András Pető and his Conductive Education
Published 2013
http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/4627506-cep-quotationary-of-andr-s-pet
307 quotations by and about András Pető – some unexpected insights!
SALE PRICE £8.00
Library of Conductive Education
Contemporary writings from the modern world of Conductive Education, by families, conductors and others, with a broad variety of personal perspectives
Just do it!
Published 2009
Young conductors report their early experiences, working on five continents
http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/1042616-just-do-it
SALE PRICE £8.00
Internationalising Conductive Education
Published 2010
http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/1736366-internationalising-conductive-education
First-hand accounts of developing Conductive Education services in eight countries
SALE PRICE £8.00
Intelligent Love
Published 2010
http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/1947834-intelligent-love
Parents’ action for Conductive Education around the world: in their families, setting up services, and in the political arena
SALE PRICE £8.00
Last Year in Hong Kong
Published 2011
http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/2905541-last-year-in-hong-kong
Reflections upon Oriental Conductive Education, following the 7th World Congress, in Hong Kong
SALE PRICE £5.00
Never never quit
Published 2013
www.blurb.co.uk/b/4642407-never–never–quit
Memories of Conductive Education experienced as a child at the Pető Institute in the late 1980s.
SALE PRICE £5.00
Books are in English
Ordering copies
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Remember, this sale closes
Wednesday 7 October
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I haven’t had the need to go through my writings since Andrew Sutton put together a book out of 33 of my earlier posts. It was impressive to see my words on paper coming together to get a message across. The specific texts were then picked for a reason. There was a key that Andrew used for his selection, it needed to have a certain flow and tell a story. His interest and focus was on my childhood experiences, my time in Hungary and Conductive Education- and how all these things tied into my adult life and my work at the time for the Jordan Klausner Foundation. The point is – he did a good job making it work as if it was written for that purpose. With an angle of course and a bias of sorts if you will, but still- it was impressively coherent.
Justin Herbst, Conductive Education graduate gives evidence to US Senate committee
Quite a few years ago I had contact with Patti Herbst when she started up the Conductive Education Center in Illinois with her husband, Chuck.. She had a son, Justin, with cerebral palsy and discovered Conductive Education which she was determined he would have. She wanted ‘independence for Justin’ and wrote about his journey in Intelligent Love, published by Conductive Education Press.
http://e-conduction.org/CEP/publications/intelligent-love/
Since then the center has gone from strength to strength and so has Justin. He attended Southern Illinois University and after graduating found employment with UPS (United Parcel Services).
Yesterday I received the latest ACENA Newsletter which reported on the US Senate Committee hearing on Fufilling the Promise: Overcoming Persistent Barriers to Economic Self-sufficiency for People with Disabilities.
http://www.help.senate.gov/hearings/hearing/?id=ff4d0969-5056-a032-521b-a692be939084&autoplay=true
This hearing took place on September 2014, and Justin gave evidence along with several others. His presentation can be downloaded as a pdf and watched on the video.
Justin’s achievements are a fantastic example of what Conductive Education can do to transform lives and enable those with cerebral palsy to achieve their potential. His hard work has paid off and he is now willing to stand up for others and put the case to the US government to update its disability policies, for the Government to make sure that true independence can become a reality.
Patti and Chuck, enormously proud of their son, are still working hard to make Conductive Education better known, and practised in the US.
Nice one!