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The common feature of the roles of mother, teacher, and analyst is that in each there is a sequence of how people feel, think, and talk to each other. Study reveals that feelings come first in every relationship. How one relates to these feelings either helps or hinders one's role performance. When the teacher has been trained to use feelings productively, she may experiment with introducing this kind of education into her work with children. Such an experiment took place at an elementary school called The Studio on Eleventh Street.
The Studio was founded in 1971 as a laboratory school for the integration and demonstration of modern psychoanalytic techniques and modern educational concepts and developments. It is an early childhood and elementary school; students range in age from three to fourteen. We also work with children from fourteen to eighteen on a tutorial basis.
The special identity of the Studio centers on three features: vertical age grouping, work with family dynamics, and work with resistances.
Most elementary schools employ only horizontal grouping: children of the same approximate age are taught together. Using the analogy of family life, we do both vertical and horizontal grouping. Students from three to fourteen are in certain classes together, for example, in swimming, kitchen science, discussion groups, and general work periods. Sometimes older students help younger