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by Rudolf Steiner

ISBN: 9780880106092
Publisher: Steiner Books
Format: PB

Price: £12.95

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

ISBN: 0880104104
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £12.95

Child's changing Consciousness, The
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
by Rudolf Steiner

ISBN: 9780880106139
Publisher: Steiner Books
Format: PB

Price: £12.95

Cosmic New Year: Thoughts for the New Year 1920
“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
by Rudolf Steiner

ISBN: 0880105186
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £5.50

Deeper Insights into Education
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
by Rudolf Steiner

ISBN: 0880104081
Publisher: Steiner Books
Format: PB

Price: £12.95

Discussions with Teachers: ‘Foundations of Waldorf Education’ series
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
by Rudolf Steiner

ISBN: 0880104112
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £11.95

Education as a Force for Social Change
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
by Rudolf Steiner

ISBN: 0880104050
Publisher: Steiner Books
Format: PB

Price: £12.95

Education for Adolescents: ‘Foundations of Waldorf Education’ series
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
by Rudolf Steiner

ISBN: 1855841185
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: PB

Price: £8.95

Education: An Introductory Reader
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
by Rudolf Steiner

ISBN: 0880104120
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £8.95

Essentials of Education, The
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
by Rudolf Steiner

ISBN: 0880104589
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £34.00

Faculty Meetings with Rudolf Steiner: Volume 1 and 2
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
by Rudolf Steiner

ISBN: 0880103922
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £11.95

Foundations of Human Experience, The

“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
by Rudolf Steiner

ISBN: 0880103868
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £8.95

Genius of Language: Observations for Teachers
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
by Rudolf Steiner

ISBN: 0880105445
Publisher: Steiner Books
Format: PB

Price: £11.95

Human Values in Education
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
by Rudolf Steiner

ISBN: 0880101377
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: BT

Price: £2.95

Introduction to Waldorf Education, An
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by Rudolf Steiner

ISBN: 0880104023
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £9.50

Kingdom of Childhood, The
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
by Rudolf Steiner

ISBN: 0880104996
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £11.95

Light Course, The
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
by Rudolf Steiner

ISBN: 0880104678
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £11.95

Practical advice to Teachers
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
by Rudolf Steiner

ISBN: 0880104511
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £16.95

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

ISBN: 0880104155
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £8.95

Roots of Education
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
by Rudolf Steiner

ISBN: 0880104333
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £10.95

Rudolf Steiner in the Waldorf School
"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
by Rudolf Steiner

ISBN: 0880101385
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: PB

Price: £15.00

Soul Economy and Waldorf Education
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
by Rudolf Steiner

ISBN: 0880103949
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £10.95

Spirit of the Waldorf School, The
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by Rudolf Steiner

ISBN: 0880105135
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £10.95

Spiritual Ground of Education, The
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
by Rudolf Steiner

ISBN: 0880103876
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £10.95

Waldorf Education and Anthroposophy 1: Public Lectures 1921-1922
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
by Rudolf Steiner

ISBN: 0880103884
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

Price: £11.95

Waldorf Education and Anthroposophy 2: Public Lectures 1921-1922
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
by Rudolf Steiner

ISBN: 0880105275
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: PB

Price: £8.95

What Is Waldorf Education?
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

 

by Charles Kovacs

ISBN: 0863154514
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £9.99

Age of Discovery, The
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
by Charles Kovacs

ISBN: 086315395X
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £9.99

Age of Revolution, The
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
by Charles Kovacs

ISBN: 0863154298
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £8.99

Ancient Greece
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
by Charles Kovacs

ISBN: 0863154824
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £9.99

Ancient Rome
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
by Charles Kovacs

ISBN: 0863155553
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £8.99

Muscles and Bones
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).
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by Charles Kovacs

ISBN: 0863153798
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £7.99

Parsifal: And the Search for the Grail
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
by John Blackwood

ISBN: 0863155383
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £12.99

Mathematics Around Us
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
by John Blackwood

ISBN: 086315560X
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £12.99

Mathematics in Space and Time
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
by Andrew Welburn

ISBN: 0863154360
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: HB

Price: £25.00

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

ISBN: 0863151310
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £14.99

Steiner Education in Theory and Practice
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
by Lawrence Edwards

ISBN: 0863153933
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £20.00

Projective Geometry
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
by Lynne Oldfield

ISBN: 1903458064
Publisher: Hawthorn Press
Format: PB

Price: £11.99

Free to Learn: Introducing Steiner Waldorf Early Childhood education
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
by Dot Male

ISBN: 1903458463
Publisher: Hawthorn Press
Format: PB

Price: £16.99

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

ISBN: 0880105743
Publisher: Steiner Books
Format: PB

Price: £14.99

Star Wisdom and Rudolf Steiner
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
by Marsha Post

ISBN: 0880105750
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: PB

Price: £9.95

Waldorf School Book of Soups, The
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
by Margrit Jünemann

ISBN: 1869890418
Publisher: Hawthorn Press
Format: PB

Price: £19.99

Drawing and Painting in Rudolf Steiner Schools
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
by Owen Barfield

ISBN: 9781597311106
Publisher: Sophia Perennis
Format: PB

Price: £14.95

Worlds Apart
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
by Jenifer Crebbin

ISBN: 9780880105873
Publisher: Steiner Books
Format: PB

Price: £12.95

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

ISBN: 9780880105767
Publisher: Steiner Books
Format: PB

Price: £9.95

What Is a Waldorf Kindergarten?
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
by Brien Masters

ISBN: 9781855842007
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: PB

Price: £11.95

Steiner Education and Social Issues
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
by Elizabeth Grunelius

ISBN: 0945803184
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner College Press
Format: PB

Price: £5.50

Early Childhood Education and the Waldorf School Plan
Waldorf Curriculum ...read more