Self-Remaking

Moshe Caspi is the founder of the first Experimental School in Jerusalem and of the Chofen Institute for Open Experimental Education at the David Yellin Academic College of Education, Jerusalem.  He was among the first to draw up the guiding principles for experimental education in Israel.

Caspi teaches a different way of learning.  He envisions a process where the student - the Self-Remaker - opens up to personal change, and moves along this path with curiosity, love of learning, creativity and humor.  In order to do so, Caspi explains how to combine the refreshing and innovative vision of the child with adult qualities such as discipline and control.  In this way, the Self-Remaker can achieve a greater degree of independence, and a whole new level in applying and implementing his ideas in all areas of human activity.  The work of Self-Remaking can be carried out within a group framework or on an individual basis.

This book offers practical suggestions which can be applied within learning frameworks, for individuals or groups, in order to enrich the learning encounter, and to change the way the student (and the facilitator) perceives the world.

The reader is invited to investigate professional and personal wishes and preferences, and to develop a unique "User's Manual," a handbook which will accompany him throughout his life's journey.

The material is explained with Professor Caspi's characteristic blend of insight and humor. 

The book presents elements of Caspi's teaching which have been published in the past in his many books in Hebrew, together with newer ideas developed by the author more recently.  Self-Remaking reflects Caspi's entire life's work in this field.  The wisdom of children is demonstrated through examples presented in the final section of the book, translated from Moshe Caspi's work: Children’s Wisdom - Cosmic Starlight:  - from the gray world of adults to the magical journey of the child, published in Hebrew by Mofet in 2013.