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Becoming The Archangel Michael's Companions: Rudolf Steiner's Challenge to the Younger Generation

by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 9780880106092
Publisher: Steiner Books
Format: PB

Price: £12.95

'The younger generation is always faced with the dilemma of being heir to the old while about to become a guide for the new.... This cycle of lectures "to the younger generation" speaks of a pathway to a Michaelic harvest for ears that have the goodwill to hear.' - Carlo Pietzner

Rudolf Steiner presented these lectures to about 100 German young people who hoped to bring Waldorf education into the culture of their time and for the future. Steiner stressed upon his listeners the great ...read more

Child's changing Consciousness, The

by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0880104104
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £12.95

1923 - Three and a half years after the founding of the first Waldorf school - an audience of Swiss teachers, most of whom have little knowledge of anthroposophy: this is the setting for these lectures, which are among the most accessible Steiner gave on the subject of ...read more

Cosmic New Year: Thoughts for the New Year 1920

by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 9780880106139
Publisher: Steiner Books
Format: PB

Price: £12.95

“Today, the ‘I’ is empty of atavistic, clairvoyant visions, and when we look back at the ‘I’, it is, so to speak, more or less only a point in our soul life. The content of this ‘I’ is a firm point of support for everyone, but still only a point. But we are living in a time when the point should once again become a circle in which the ‘I’ should once again received content.... Just as the ‘I’ was filled for the human being of the past with atavistic, clairvoyant content, so in our time our ‘I’ ...read more

Deeper Insights into Education

by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0880105186
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £5.50

Speaking to the teachers at the first Waldorf school in Stuttgart, Steiner asserts that the unfortunate presence of dishonesty and alienation in society today cannot be addressed without a completely renewed and holistic education. He states fact that successful teaching requires a living synthesis of the “spiritual gymnast,” the “ensouled rhetorician,” and the “intellectual professor.” Of these, the formative effect of the rhetorician’s cultivation of artistic speech is the most important. ...read more

Discussions with Teachers: ‘Foundations of Waldorf Education’ series

by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0880104081
Publisher: Steiner Books
Format: PB

Price: £12.95

Steiner does not prescribe specific methods but introduces topics and situations, giving guidelines and allocating practical assignments that are taken up and discussed in the next session. In this way, the discussions are filled with insights and indications in many different areas of teaching - history, geography, botany, zoology, form drawing and mathematics. These fifteen discussions constitute an essential part of the basic training material for Waldorf ...read more

Education as a Force for Social Change

by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0880104112
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £11.95

These dazzling, radical lectures were given one month before the opening of the first Waldorf School—following two years of intense preoccupation with the social situation in Germany as World War I ended and society sought to rebuild itself.

Well aware of the dangerous tendencies present in modern culture that undermine a true social life—such as psychic torpor and boredom, universal mechanization, and a growing cynicism—Steiner recognized that any solution must address not only ...read more

Education for Adolescents: ‘Foundations of Waldorf Education’ series

by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0880104050
Publisher: Steiner Books
Format: PB

Price: £12.95

In these eight talks on education for adolescent-aged young people, Steiner addressed the teachers of the first Waldorf school two years after it was first opened. An upper school was needed, and Steiner wanted to provide a foundation for study and a guide for teachers already familiar with his approach to the human being, child development, and education based on spiritual ...read more

Education: An Introductory Reader

by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 1855841185
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: PB

Price: £8.95

A social basis for education; The spirit of the Waldorf school; Educational methods based on anthroposophy; The child at play; Teaching from a foundation of spiritual insight and education in the light of spiritual science; The adolescent after the fourteenth year; Science, art, religion and morality; The spiritual grounds of education; The role of caring in education; The roots of education and the kingdom of childhood; Address at a parents' evening; Education in the wider social ...read more

Essentials of Education, The

by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0880104120
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £8.95

These five talks were given during an educational conference in 1924. They are the last public lectures given by Rudolf Steiner in Germany. According to one member of his audience, "Seventeen hundred people listened to him; the prolonged applause from this great crowd at the end of every lecture was deeply moving, while at the end of the last lecture the applause became an ovation that seemed as if it would never end." This kind of adoration was the result not only of who Steiner was as an ...read more

Faculty Meetings with Rudolf Steiner: Volume 1 and 2

by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0880104589
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £34.00

The Waldorf school movement has its roots in the chaotic period following World War I. Struggling to create the first school, Rudolf Steiner worked on every detail-lesson plans, religious education, school hours, course resources, administration, finance, and child study. Guiding the faculty, Steiner moved toward his goal of creating a vehicle for social transformation.

These two volumes span 1919 to 1924 and cover, meeting by meeting, the development of the first Waldorf school. ...read more

Foundations of Human Experience, The

by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0880103922
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £11.95

“Although we can physically see children only after their birth, we need to be aware that birth is also a continuation. We do not want to look only at what the human being experiences after death, that is, at the spiritual continuation of the physical. We want to be aware that physical existence is a continuation of what higher beings have done without our assistance. Our form of educating can have the correct attitude only when we are aware that our work with young people is a continuation ...read more

Genius of Language: Observations for Teachers

by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0880103868
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £8.95

During the first year of the first Waldorf school, Rudolf Steiner agreed to give a science course to the teachers, which was to be on the nature of light. At the last minute, he was asked to give an additional course on language, which he improvised. "The Genius of Language" is the result.

Steiner demonstrates how history and psychology together form the different languages and how ideas, images, and vocabulary travel through time within various cultural streams. He describes how the ...read more

Human Values in Education

by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0880105445
Publisher: Steiner Books
Format: PB

Price: £11.95

The underlying thesis of these lectures, volume 20 in the “Foundations of Waldorf Education” series, is that true education must be based on knowledge of the whole human being and that such knowledge cannot be attained without love. On this basis, Steiner presents his understanding of every aspect of child development—bodily, psychological, and spiritual. At the same time, he shows that, to prove worthy of their calling, teachers must begin a process of inner development. In Steiner’s view, it ...read more

Introduction to Waldorf Education, An

by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0880101377
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: BT

Price: £2.95

Kingdom of Childhood, The

by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0880104023
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £9.50

These seven intimate, aphoristic talks were presented to a small group on Steiner’s final visit to England. Because they were given to “pioneers” dedicated to opening a new Waldorf school, these talks are often considered one of the best introductions to Waldorf education.

Steiner shows the necessity for teachers to work on themselves first, in order to transform their own inherent gifts. He explains the need to use humor to keep their teaching lively and imaginative. Above all, he ...read more

Light Course, The

by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0880104996
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £11.95

Rudolf Steiner's course on light, which includes explorations of color, sound, mass, electricity and magnetism, presages the dawn of a new world view in the natural sciences that will stand our notion of the physical world on its head.

This 'first course' in natural science, given to the teachers of the new Stuttgart Waldorf School as an inspiration for developing the physics curriculum, is based on Goethe's approach to the study of nature. Steiner corrects the mechanistic reductionism ...read more

Practical advice to Teachers

by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0880104678
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £11.95

How do Waldorf teachers put their educational ideals into practice in the classroom? How does a teacher connect geography and art and language in a way that enlivens the souls of children? What does a child's respect for the teacher mean for later life? These are only a few practical aspects of this initial course for Waldorf teachers.

During an intensive two weeks, Rudolf Steiner gave three simultaneous educational courses to those who would be the first teachers of the original ...read more

Rhythms of Learning: What Waldorf Education Offers Children, Parents & Teachers

by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0880104511
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £16.95

Waldorf education, an established and growing independent school movement, continues to be shaped and inspired by Rudolf Steiner's numerous lectures on education.

In Rhythms of Learning, key lectures on children and education have been thoughtfully chosen from the vast amount of material by Steiner and presented in a context that makes them approachable and accessible. In his many discussions and lectures, Steiner shared his vision of an education that considers the spirit, soul, and ...read more

Roots of Education

by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0880104155
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £8.95

These five lectures on Waldorf education were given as a course during Easter week, 1924, in Bern. Although these talks were given more than eighty years ago, they remain remarkably contemporary. Every word still resonates with passion and dedication to the human adventure.

We must develop an art of education that can lead us out of the social chaos into which we have fallen during the last few years and decades.... There is no escaping this chaos unless we can find a way to bring ...read more

Rudolf Steiner in the Waldorf School

by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0880104333
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £10.95

"Ultimately, isn't it a very holy and religious obligation to cultivate and educate the divine spiritual element that manifests anew in every human being who is born? Isn't this educational service a religious service in the highest sense of the word? Isn't it so that our holiest stirrings, which we dedicate to religious feeling, must all come together in our service at the altar when we attempt to cultivate the divine spiritual aspect of the human being, whose potentials are revealed in the ...read more

Soul Economy and Waldorf Education

by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0880101385
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: PB

Price: £15.00

These lectures constitute one of the most important educational cycles, with separate lectures on the following phases of child development: before the 7th year, 7-10, the 10th year, 10-14, and adolescents after ...read more

Spirit of the Waldorf School, The

by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0880103949
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £10.95

World War I and destroyed all the structures, values, and self-confidence that created the seeming greatness of the nineteenth century. In its place stood only ruins, the shards of a civilization. In response to this, Emil Molt—the director of the Waldorf-Astoria Cigarette Factory and a student of Rudolf Steiner—decided to establish a school to educate people who could create a new culture. Thus, the Waldorf school movement was begun. Rudolf Steiner agreed to act as the school’s consultant, and ...read more

Spiritual Ground of Education, The

by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0880105135
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £10.95

Given during a conference on spiritual values in education and attended by many prominent people of the time, Steiner's Oxford lectures gave him a rare opportunity to present the principles of Waldorf education at the highest cultural level.

His lectures, well received, were reviewed in The Manchester Guardian: "Dr. Steiner's lectures brought to us in a very vivid way an ideal of humanity in education. He spoke to us about teachers who, freely and unitedly, unrestricted by external ...read more

Waldorf Education and Anthroposophy 1: Public Lectures 1921-1922

by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0880103876
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £10.95

This is the first of two previously untranslated volumes of Rudolf Steiner's public lectures on Waldorf education. Readers familiar with Steiner's lectures for teachers will discover here how Steiner presented his ideas to the general public with surprising directness. Teaching, Steiner says, should be artistic, creative, and improvisational, not dogmatic. Yet he is clear that the great battle concerns the spiritual nature of the child. Other themes include understanding the role of health and ...read more

Waldorf Education and Anthroposophy 2: Public Lectures 1921-1922

by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0880103884
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £11.95

By the time of this second collection of Rudolf Steiner's public lectures on Waldorf education, the Waldorf school movement was gaining increasing recognition.

In this collection, as in the previous one, Steiner is outspoken with regard to the spiritual nature of human beings and the world, including the spiritual nature of Waldorf ...read more

What Is Waldorf Education?

by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0880105275
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: PB

Price: £8.95

This is a reader-friendly Waldorf "taster," with three public lectures by Rudolf Steiner on Waldorf education and a thought provoking, accessible introduction by a Waldorf teacher and longtime student of Steiner's pedagogy. These lectures by Steiner present what he sees as the "fundamentals" in a matter-of-fact, objective, non-dogmatic way. The introduction, wide-ranging and informative, treats Waldorf education and methodology in general, explaining that, before all else, a Waldorf School is a ...read more

Grand Metamorphosis, A

by Peter Selg
ISBN: 9780880105989
Publisher: Steiner Books
Format: PB

Price: £11.95

subtitle: Contributions to the Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology and Education of Adolescents

Adolescence is the period during which we first sense, as human beings, our responsibility for earthly existence, and, inevitably, it is a time of turbulent transition and inner turmoil. During the first two seven-year periods of life, our soul, spiritual being gradually incarnates. With puberty, it takes hold of our whole being and turns outward to befriend the Earth and the forces of life and ...read more

Age of Discovery, The

by Charles Kovacs
ISBN: 0863154514
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £9.99

An overview of world history from the time of the Crusades to the Renaissance. Includes Saladin, Joan of Arc, Columbus, Magellan, Queen Elizabeth and Francis Drake. A resource for Steiner-Waldorf teachers of Class 8 (age ...read more

Age of Revolution, The

by Charles Kovacs
ISBN: 086315395X
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £9.99

An excellent Waldorf Education resource this book gives an overview of world history from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, including the French, American and Industrial Revolutions.
Kovacs chooses pertinent stories which create a tapestry showing the development of humankind from medieval times, when every person had their place in the hierarchy of society, to the awakening of individuality in modern ...read more

Ancient Greece

by Charles Kovacs
ISBN: 0863154298
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £8.99

A retelling of Greek mythology and ancient history as recommended for Steiner-Waldorf curriculum class 5-6 (age 10-12).

This welcome new addition to Charles Kovacs’ work contains legendary stories of mythical heroes and historic figures from the dawn of western civilization. Through the fearless deeds of Heracles, Theseus and Odysseus to the Golden Age of Athens and the conquests of Alexander the Great, the narrative vividly portrays the journey from the mysteries of antiquity to the ...read more

Ancient Rome

by Charles Kovacs
ISBN: 0863154824
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £9.99

This book, for use by Steiner-Waldorf teachers, includes stories of the founding of Rome, the early battles with Carthage and Hannibal, Julius Caesar and the conquests of Gaul and Britain, Antony and Cleopatra, and the decline and fall under the Huns and the beginning of the Dark Ages.

It is recommended for Steiner-Waldorf curriculum Class 6 (age ...read more

Muscles and Bones

by Charles Kovacs
ISBN: 0863155553
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £8.99

This is an overview of human physiology and anatomy, including health and hygiene. A resource for Steiner-Waldorf teachers of Class 7-8 (age 12-14).
...read more

Norse Mythology

by Charles Kovacs
ISBN: 9780863154454
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £9.99

A retelling of the stories of Norse mythology as recommended for the Steiner-Waldorf curriculum Class 4 (age 9-10). Includes myths on Creation, Odin and Mimir, Thor and Thialfi, Idun, Sif and Loki.

Extent: 224 pages
Size: 216 x 138 ...read more

Parsifal: And the Search for the Grail

by Charles Kovacs
ISBN: 0863153798
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £7.99

Parsifal (or Sir Percival) was a Knight of King Arthur. His story is told by the troubadours of France and Germany, notably Chrétien de Troyes and Wolfram von Eschenbach. The Parsifal story stands between the past age that looked for secrets of the spirit and the coming age that was going to search for the secrets of matter.

In the Steiner-Waldorf Education curriculum this story is recommended for Class 11 (age 16-17) as a way of introducing world literature and one of the central ...read more

Spiritual Background to Christian Festivals, The

by Charles Kovacs
ISBN: 9780863156014
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £7.99

The rhythms of the earth can be seen in, for example, the daily cycle of day and night, or in the changing seasons. Rudolf Steiner spoke about how Christian festivals such as Easter, Whitsun and Christmas fitted not just into these patterns, but also into larger cosmic rhythms and, on a smaller scale, human rhythms.

In this concise, readable book Charles Kovacs explores the structure of our calendar year and looks in detail at the background to each Christian festival, including ...read more

Mathematics Around Us

by John Blackwood
ISBN: 0863155383
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £12.99

A teachers' book for maths covering 'Mathematics in Nature', and 'Pythagoras and Numbers'. Full colour throughout.

A resource for Steiner-Waldorf teachers for maths for class 7 (age ...read more

Mathematics in Space and Time

by John Blackwood
ISBN: 086315560X
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £12.99

A teachers' book for mathematics covering 'Platonic Solids' and 'Rhythm and Cycles' which includes full colour illustrations and diagrams throughout.

A resource for Steiner-Waldorf teachers for maths for Class 8 (age 13-14).

The companion volume to this bookfor Class 7 (age 12-13), is 'Mathematics Around Us' by John ...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

Steiner Education in Theory and Practice

by Gilbert Childs
ISBN: 0863151310
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £14.99

This is a detailed account of Rudolf Steiner's view of children, and the role education must play in their successful development.

Gilbert Childs examines and explains the curriculum of Steiner-Waldorf schools, showing how their unique teaching practices take a holistic view of the child. He looks particularly at issues such as creativity, imagination, and intellect, and how the schools try to produce rounded, responsible young adults.

He concludes that our approach to the ...read more

Individuality of Colour, The

by Ibrahim Abouleish
ISBN: 9781855842267
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: HB

Price: £25

Subtitle: Contributions to a Methodical Schooling in Colour Experience

'What is postulated here is not the dogmatic laying down of a way of working. Rather the aim is to make evident one possible means of access to an experience of the colour world... and guide actual practice to Rudolf Steiner's sketch motifs - to their eminent educational power - for we recognize in them a path that can become of great significance to the developing human soul.' - From the Introduction

This ...read more

Projective Geometry

by Lawrence Edwards
ISBN: 0863153933
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £20.00

Lawrence Edwards researched and taught projective geometry for more than 40 years. Here, he presents a clear and artistic understanding of the intriguing qualities of non-Euclidian geometry. Illustrated with over 200 instructive diagrams and exercises, this book will reveal the secrets of space to those who work through them. A valuable resource for Steiner-Waldorf ...read more

Free to Learn: Introducing Steiner Waldorf Early Childhood education

by Lynne Oldfield
ISBN: 1903458064
Publisher: Hawthorn Press
Format: PB

Price: £11.99

Free to Learn is a unique guide to the principles and methods of Steiner Waldorf Early Childhood education.
This authoritative introduction is written by Lynne Oldfield, Director of the London Steiner Waldorf Early Childhood Teacher Training Course. She draws on kindergarten experience from around the world, with stories, helpful insights, lively observations and pictures.

This inspiring book will interest parents, educators and early years students. It is up to date, comprehensive, ...read more

Parent and Child Group Handbook, The: A Steiner Waldorf Approach

by Dot Male
ISBN: 1903458463
Publisher: Hawthorn Press
Format: PB

Price: £16.99

Regular contact with other families can be a vital lifeline for parents with young children - a chance to make friends, ask questions, learn new skills and gain confidence in their own abilities as a parent.

Rudolf Steiner's insight into the spiritual, sensory and intellectual needs of early childhood has inspired a unique kind of parent and child group. Drawing on this approach, Dot Male's book shows parents how they can join together with others to create a supportive family ...read more

Star Wisdom and Rudolf Steiner

by David Tresemer
ISBN: 0880105743
Publisher: Steiner Books
Format: PB

Price: £14.99

A life seen through the Oracle of the Solar Cross.

From the book:
"We are each meant to discover the connection from our individual soul to spiritual realities not encompassed by the normal senses, requiring supersensible perception. Images can offer powerful assistance.... However, we have forgotten about our own imagination, the creation of our own images. What was meant to be a balance between self-created imaginations and the enjoyment of others’ imaginations has become seriously ...read more

Waldorf School Book of Soups, The

by Marsha Post
ISBN: 0880105750
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: PB

Price: £9.95

Whether as a quick snack, part of a full-course dinner, or as the whole meal, there is nothing quite like a good bowl of soup. These recipes reflect the care and awareness that goes into providing proper nutrition for children and adults alike, while never ignoring the palate. Many Waldorf schoolteachers, staff, parents, alumni, and friends of the Waldorf school movement have contributed their favorite recipes to make up this collection. You will find everything from stocks and broths to ...read more

Drawing and Painting in Rudolf Steiner Schools

by Margrit Jünemann
ISBN: 1869890418
Publisher: Hawthorn Press
Format: PB

Price: £19.99

This comprehensive account of painting and drawing in the Steiner (Waldorf Education) curriculum is an invaluable resource book - for all teachers of art as well as for anyone interested in the creative development of children. It shows how artistic and intellectual activities are fully integrated in order to lead children through the many fascinating and challenging stages of their voyage toward adulthood. It combines detailed practical advice with clearly defined philosophy on aesthetic ...read more

Worlds Apart

by Owen Barfield
ISBN: 9781597311106
Publisher: Sophia Perennis
Format: PB

Price: £14.95

Worlds Apart is a fictional dialogue between a physicist,
a biologist, a psychiatrist, a lawyer-philologist, a linguistic analyst, a theologian, a retired Waldorf teacher, and a young man engaged at a rocket research station. Over a period of three days, the characters get down to first principles.

"In the great English tradition of the lay specialist, Barfield, a lawyer, modernizes the Platonic dialogue format
to focus on the philosophic problems of reality and ways of knowing. . ...read more

Soul Development through Handwriting: The Waldorf Approach to the Vimala Alphabet

by Jenifer Crebbin
ISBN: 9780880105873
Publisher: Steiner Books
Format: PB

Price: £12.95

Soul Development through Handwriting cultivates the noble qualities to which Waldorf education has long been devoted through the use of specific forms for shaping letters. The Vimala Alphabet was meticulously designed to support independent thinking, engaged willpower, balance, tolerance, honour, and intuition, as well as strengthening the developing soul forces of children.

This book considers personal characteristics, which can be transformed through certain letters. Soul Development ...read more

What Is a Waldorf Kindergarten?

by Sharifa Oppenheimer
ISBN: 9780880105767
Publisher: Steiner Books
Format: PB

Price: £9.95

Here is the perfect companion to Sharifa Oppenheimer's Heaven on Earth: A Handbook for Parents of Young Children, which answers the initial and most pressing questions of new parents of young children. Inevitably, a big decision arises: How and where should my child be educated?

The authors featured in What Is a Waldorf Kindergarten? describe from experience the numerous aspects of the "Steiner school" approach to early childhood education. Readers will learn what lies behind the Waldorf ...read more

Steiner Education and Social Issues

by Brien Masters
ISBN: 9781855842007
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: PB

Price: £11.95

Is the philosophy we use to educate our children responsible, at least partially, for the attitudes and general tone of our societies? A recent UNICEF report on wealthy countries saw the United States and the United Kingdom ranked lowest in the quality of life for young people across a wide range of categories—including poverty, health, drugs, friendships, and happiness. According to experts, those nations that performed best in the survey have created “child-friendly” societies in which, for ...read more

Early Childhood Education and the Waldorf School Plan

by Elizabeth Grunelius
ISBN: 0945803184
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner College Press
Format: PB

Price: £5.50

Waldorf Curriculum ...read more

Children and Their Temperaments

by Marieke Anschütz
ISBN: 9780863151750
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £6.99

Drawing on an ancient tradition, Rudolf Steiner referred to four fundamental 'types' or 'temperaments' in the human personality, each of which, he said, has different personal needs and ways of relating socially.

From her experience of working with children of all ages, Marieke Anschütz provides a guide to children's different temperaments and their role in child character, health and personality development.

The book includes illustrations from home and school, in the context ...read more

Power of Stories, The: Nurturing Children's Imagination and Consciousness

by Horst Kornberger
ISBN: 9780863156595
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £9.99

From the great myths and legends to enchanting fairy tales, parables, fables and folk tales, stories can have a great healing and educative power. They come from our subconscious and imagination, deep inside us. They have much to teach us about ourselves, therefore, and the world we create around us.

Horst Kornberger, a writer, artist and Steiner-Waldorf teacher, first explores the power of particular stories such as Odysseus, Parsifal, Oedipus, Bible stories and fairy tales. He then ...read more

Work and Play in Early Childhood

by Freja Jaffke
ISBN: 9780863152276
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £7.99

Rhythm and repetition, together with example and imitation, are pillars on which early learning is based. Freya Jaffke applies these simple principles in practical and sensible ways.

She describes children's play in a Steiner-Waldorf kindergarten setting, and provides tried and tested advice on this important stage of development.

This book includes sections on Planning the day; Festivals; Rhythms; Materials; Educating the Will; Imagination; Spontaneous and Planned Play; Example ...read more

Waldorf Doll Nativity, A

by Petra and Tom Rosenberg
ISBN: 9780863156649
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: HB

Price: £8.99

Joseph the carpenter and his wife Mary live in Nazareth. Mary is expecting a baby. One day, they must travel to another town, Bethlehem.

The traditional Christmas story is here gently illustrated through beautifully-rendered tableaux of Waldorf dolls made from felt and wool, with colourful backgrounds. Young children will love the different patterns and textures in the pictures and parents will enjoy an alternative depiction of the well-known story.

Format: hardback Extent: 24 ...read more

Education Towards Freedom: Rudolf Steiner Education

by Frans Carlgren
ISBN: 9780863156519
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £14.99

Subtitle: A survey of the work of Waldorf Schools throughout the world

Education Towards Freedom was first published in 1976, and since then has sold over ten thousand copies in English. When it appeared, there were around 100 Steiner-Waldorf schools throughout the world; now there are almost 1000 schools worldwide, as well as many separate playgroups and kindergartens.

During this time, Steiner-Waldorf education has become increasingly known in the mainstream, and increasingly ...read more

Creative Form Drawing 1

by Rudolf Kutzli
ISBN: 9780950706283
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £15.99

These three workbooks offer a thorough, step by step guide to form drawing. As Brunelleschi, the Renaissance architect said, 'The lines and forms are visible signs of divine gestures. Learn to understand them and you will comprehend how God created the world.'

Anyone wanting to develop their drawing skills, as well as artists, teachers and students, will enjoy the creative challenge of form drawing. Regular practise can help discover what the art of line can mean. Drawing skills are ...read more

Creative Form Drawing 2

by Rudolf Kutzli
ISBN: 9781869890148
Publisher: Hawthorn Press
Format: PB

Price: £15.99

Creative Form Drawing 3

by Rudolf Kutzli
ISBN: 9781869890384
Publisher: Hawthorn Press
Format: PB

Price: £16.99

Transformational Teaching

by Mary Goral
ISBN: 9780880107044
Publisher: Steiner Books
Format: PB

Price: £14.95

Subtitle: Waldorf-Inspired Methods in the Public School

Mary Goral explores ways that Waldorf principles can be applied in public schools to educate children for life rather than simply to meet the demands of rigid, one-size-fits-all programmes. She points out ways that Waldorf methods require teachers and parents to engage more fully with students, to practice ways of self-development, and to build a greater sense of community. Using the concrete example of the 'Waldorf-inspired Cadre' ...read more