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Education for Special Needs;The Curative Education Course

by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 1855840421
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: PB

Price: £13.95

In 1924 attitudes toward people with special needs were radically different than they are today. That year, a small group of teachers and doctors recognized the need for change this area of education and asked Rudolf Steiner for this seminal lecture course as a fresh basis for renewing their work.

Many decades later, the movement he inspired has grown enormously, with hundreds of homes around the world for both children and adults with special needs. Revolutionary in its approach, the ...read more

Education of the Child, The

by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0880104147
Publisher: Steiner Books
Format: PB

Price: £10.95

As early as 1884, while tutoring a boy with special needs, Steiner began a lifelong interest in applying spiritual knowledge to the practical aspects of life. Steiner originally published the essay at the core of this book in 1907. It represents his earliest ideas on education, in which he lays out the soul spiritual processes of human development, describing the need to understand how the being of a child develops through successive “births,” beginning with the physical body’s entry into ...read more

Karl König's Path into Anthroposophy: Reflections from his Diaries

by Peter Selg
ISBN: 9780863156298
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £7.99

This book follows Karl König’s spiritual journey from his early years to the end of his life. Through the words of his diaries, in which his battles with health and his impatient temperament are recorded with merciless honesty, we can follow his inner path that led to profound insights into the nature of children with special needs. His personal wrestlings and innate spirituality laid the foundation for his work in the Camphill Schools and Villages.

Includes facsimile reproductions of ...read more

Rudolf Steiner's Philosophy: And the Crisis of Contemporary Thought

by Andrew Welburn
ISBN: 0863154360
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: HB

Price: £25.00

The Austrian-born philosopher Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) created a vast legacy of practical work in Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, Camphill communities for adults and children with special needs, as well as in many other artistic and scientific areas.

The foundation of all these approaches is a highly developed system of thought with which Steiner addressed philosophical issues. Many of these issues were also tackled by a number of contemporaries, notably the phenomenological ...read more

Children with Special Needs: Rudolf Steiner's Approach

by Michael Luxford
ISBN: 0863155480
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £7.99

A concise introduction to Rudolf Steiner's ideas on the development and education of children with special needs.

Steiner's insights have led to the creation of special needs schools, communities and villages around the world. Camphill, an important part of this network, exists on four continents.

This little guide, illustrated throughout with colour photographs, gives an overview of the development of the child, educational options and therapies for special needs, and special ...read more

Holistic Special Education: Camphill Principles and Practice

by Robin Jackson
ISBN: 0863155472
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £14.99

Parents and professionals working with special needs children often face difficult decisions about the child's education. This book puts forward the case for holistic special education, as practised by Camphill schools.

Camphill's holistic approach embraces education and therapy in various forms, all aspects of care – including, for those children receiving residential care, everything from nutrition to bedtime routines – as well as crafts and medical treatments. It emphasizes the ...read more

Children with a Difference: The Background of Steiner Special Education

by Walter Holtzapfel
ISBN: 9780906155486
Publisher: Lanthorn Press
Format: PB

Price: £8.99

Based on Rudolf Steiner's course of lectures on curative education, this concise but comprehensive book addresses all types and aspects of special needs education, deepening and elaborating on Steiner's original ideas.

Dr Walter Holtzapfel gives valuable insight into the physiological background of psychology disorders, and offer many suggestions to educators to find new ways of providing help to children and their ...read more

Human Organs: Their Functional and Psychological Significance: Liver, Lung, Kidney, Heart

by Walter Holtzapfel
ISBN: 9780906155363
Publisher: Lanthorn Press
Format: PB

Price: £6.99

This book is based on lectures on curative education given by the author in Switzerland and Germany. Although the approach is through the four main human organs, it will be of interest to educators, doctors and nurses working with people with special needs.

Walter Holtzapfel draws the connection between bodily processes and the life of the soul, with each affecting the other at different times. He systematically examines the characteristics of the liver, lung, kidney and heart, and ...read more

Ita Wegman and Karl König: Letters and Documents

by Karl König
ISBN: 9780863156618
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £9.99

Ita Wegman, born in 1876 to a Dutch family living in Indonesia, first met Rudolf Steiner in Berlin in 1902 when she was 26 years old. She studied medicine at the University of Zurich and in 1917, following Steiner's indications, developed a treatment for cancer using mistletoe. In 1921 she founded the first anthroposophical medical clinic, in Arlesheim, Switzerland, followed in 1922 by the Sonnenhof home for children with special needs.

Karl König first met Wegman around 1927, and she ...read more

Karl König: My Task: Autobiography and Biographies

by Karl König
ISBN: 9780863156281
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £7.99

Born in 1902 into a Jewish family, Karl König grew up in Vienna in the last years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He studied medicine and during this time came across the work of Rudolf Steiner. Soon after graduating he worked with Ita Wegman in Switzerland, where he also met his wife, Tilla.

He founded a home for children with special needs, Pilgrimshain, in Silesia, Germany. However, in 1935 under political pressure he left Germany for Austria. Here he had a large medical practice as ...read more

Children of the Curative Education Course, The

by Wilhelm Uhlenhoff
ISBN: 9780863156601
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £14.99

This book offers seventeen detailed case studies of children with special needs, dating back to the early twentieth century. The clinical and social background of each child is presented, and their interactions with Rudolf Steiner are described.

Uhlenhoff documents Steiner’s recommendations concerning medication, curative eurythmy and other educational therapies and then traces their continuing progress over the coming months and years. The development of each child is described in ...read more

Homemaking and Personal Development: Meditative Practice for Homemakers

by Veronika van Duin
ISBN: 9781855842120
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: PB

Price: £9.95

"What decides why things go well one day and badly another? The events are the same, the homemaker is the same, yet on one occasion nothing works out for her and on another everything seems miraculously to fall into place. Is there a special ingredient within us that we can tap into and cultivate to generate the longed-for equilibrium?"

Veronika van Duin began her career as a homemaker forty years ago. Setting out with love, enthusiasm and idealism, she soon discovered that she had no ...read more