Download or read book Adventures in Steiner Education written by Brien Masters and published by Rudolf Steiner Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An internationally acknowledged authority in Steiner education, Brien Masters has worked for decades as a teacher in both public and Waldorf schools, and has served as a teacher trainer, consultant, writer and lecturer. In Adventures in Steiner Education, he draws on his rich and varied experience to paint a vivid picture of Waldorf education in practice. Spicing the text with many personal stories and anecdotes, he brings to life the theory behind this increasingly popular educational approach, from the early years through to the Lower and Upper Schools. This lively book serves not only as an informative and entertaining introduction, but also as a helpful refresher course for those seeking to become fully acquainted with the basic principles of Steiner Education.
Download or read book Balance in Teaching written by Rudolf Steiner and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whereas most readers are familiar with Goethe as a poet and dramatist, few are familiar with his scientific work. In this brilliant book, Henri Bortoft (who began his studies of Goethean science with J. G. Bennett and David Bohm) introduces the fascinating scientific theories of Goethe. He succeeds in showing that Goethe's way of doing science was not a poet's folly but a genuine alternative to the dominant scientific paradigm. Bortoft shows that a different, "gentler" kind of empiricism is possible than that demanded by the dualizing mind of modern technological science and demonstrates that Goethe's participatory phenomenology of a new way of seeing--while far from being a historical curiosity--in fact proposes a practical solution to the dilemmas of contemporary, postmodern science. If you read only one book on Goethan science, this should be the one!
Download or read book Adventures in Parenting written by Rachel C. Ross and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many parents struggle to carry the principles of Waldorf schools through into the home.This caring and generous book offers wonderful support for parents facing particular challenges, and general guidance for bringing up children. It addresses issues including different parenting styles, how to break bad patterns, actively observing children, meeting children's needs, and the need for healthy boundaries.
Download or read book Waldorf Schools and the History of Steiner Education written by Thomas Stehlik and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book marks the centenary of the first Waldorf School, established by Rudolf Steiner in Stuttgart in 1919. With around 1,150 Waldorf Schools and over 1,800 Waldorf Kindergartens established in over 60 countries, this book examines and analyses how the initial impulse of Steiner education has grown over the last century to become a worldwide alternative movement in education. The author documents and compares the growth and development of Waldorf schools and Steiner-inspired educational institutions around the world, and determines the extent to which the original underpinning philosophy has been maintained against the contexts and challenges of contemporary global trends in education. Within such diverse international contexts, it is significant that the schools retain such a distinctive identity, and clearly redefine how ‘alternative education’ can be viewed. This comprehensive volume will be of interest and value to scholars of Steiner education and Waldorf schools as well as alternative education more widely.
Download or read book Heaven on Earth written by Sharifa Oppenheimer and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 6 lectures and an essay, 1919-1920 (CW 297) World War I destroyed the structures, values, and self-confidence that created the seeming greatness of the nineteenth century. In its place stood ruins and 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 his insights guided the school in accomplishing this ambitious task. The goal of this education was that, through living inner work guided by the insights of Rudolf Steiner, the teachers would develop in the children such power of thought, depth of feeling, and strength of will that they would emerge from their school years as full members of the human community, able to meet and transform the world. These lectures occurred around the opening of the first Waldorf school. They serve as an excellent, inspiring introduction to Waldorf education as a whole. Here Steiner outlines--with freshness, immediacy, and excitement--the goals and intentions of a new form of education and speaks to parents of prospective students. He explains the school's guiding principles and describes how parents must participate, with understanding and interest, in the awakening of their children's creative forces so that a healthier society can come about. German sources: Die Waldorfschule und ihr Geist (GA 297); "Die pädagogische Zielsetzung der Waldorfschule in Stuttgart," from Soziale Zukunft, Feb. 1920 (GA 24).
Download or read book Early Childhood Wisdom written by Meg Quinlisk and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Families of young children today face a fast-paced world of consumerism and isolation. Many have lost touch with the traditions of their grandparents and the grounding rhythm of life connected to nature. To fill this void, the Steiner playgroup offers connection and meaning, supporting both the child starting out on a social life and the new parent creating a family life.Ebba Bodame's twenty years of experience in Rudolf Steiner early childhood education are distilled here in a treasury of insights-a must-have travel guide for anyone setting out on the journey of working with young children. Gathered together are all the ingredients of the playgroup morning, moving through the seasons of the year. Parents can harvest this wealth of stories, songs, games and activities to enrich the family's daily life. And sprinkled throughout are suggestions for the practical and spiritual roles of playgroup leading, homemaking and parenting.
Download or read book The Barefoot Book of Ballet Stories written by Jane Yolen and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retellings of seven of the world's greatest ballet stories.
Download or read book Pico the Gnome written by Martina Muller and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of a classic picture book about courage and valuing difference, full of life and color.
Download or read book Steiner Education and Social Issues written by Brien Masters and published by Rudolf Steiner Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 example, young people are not pressured to achieve academically until their teens. In contrast, educators in the US and UK generally press toward economic success, using education as a means of generating--through "No Child Left Behind" and increasing use of tests--the high achievers needed, it is thought, to produce material wealth. Brien Masters--an educator for more than fifty years--asserts that education has a central role to play "in bringing into human lives those qualities that can take us forward to a progressive future." He proposes that Rudolf Steiner's educational approach, which is practiced primarily in the Waldorf schools around the world, is well equipped to enable this. In Steiner Education and Social Issues--via a series of short, engaging chapters and based on his broad personal experience of teaching and teacher-training--Masters tackles a wide range of modern social issues, from drugs and nutrition to boredom to the influence of television and multicultural societies. This is a wise and informative guide for parents, teachers, and anyone interested in the future development of our children and our culture.
Download or read book Working with Anxious Nervous and Depressed Children written by Henning Köhler and published by Association of Waldorf Schools of North Americ. This book was released on 2013-12-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New spiritually-based solutions are needed to solve some of the complex problems found in today's youth. Mr. Koehler courageously presents parents and teachers with a practical path of schooling the thinking, heart, and will in selfless devotion to the individual destiny of each child.
Download or read book Adventurous Learning written by Simon Beames and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventurous Learning interrogates the word ‘adventure’ and explores how elements of authenticity, agency, uncertainty and mastery can be incorporated into educational practices. It outlines key elements for a pedagogy of adventurous learning and provides guidelines grounded in accessible theory. Teachers of all kinds can adapt these guidelines for indoor and outdoor teaching in their own culturally specific, place-responsive contexts, without any requirement to learn a new program or buy an educational gimmick. As forces of standardization and regulation continue to pervade educational systems across the globe, both teaching and learning have been starved of creativity, choice and ‘real world’ relevance. Many teachers are keen to improve their practice yet feel constrained by the institutional structures within which they work. By carefully examining adventure and its role in education, teachers can become better able to design and deliver engaging programmes that are underpinned by sound pedagogical principles, and which have deep and enduring meaning for their students.
Download or read book Beyond the Rainbow Bridge written by Barbara J. Patterson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beyond the Rainbow Bridge" is a treasure house of practical and inspiring wisdom for raising children. Based on a successful parent enrichment class led by a seasoned teacher and parent. Learn about healthy rhythms, creative discipline, birthday stories, and doll making. Appendix with resources and craft instructions. Richly-illustrated with photographs and pencil drawings. For anyone who cares for children.
Download or read book Making Waldorf Crafts written by Nina Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical craft projects suitable for children aged 6-8 years, classes 1 and 2 of Steiner-Waldorf school to follow on their own or with support. This is a recipe book to guide young people through making things on their own (with a little help or guidance from an adult, if needed) with few words and plenty of pictures to follow.
Download or read book Rudolf Steiner written by Christoph Lindenberg and published by Steiner Books. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This biography should contribute to a greater understanding of Rudolf Steiner. Whoever follows his life will get the impression that, from a certain point on, his constant attempt was to awake, in numerous ways, an active, working understanding for Anthroposophy. Steiner used creative imagination to treat particular themes and tasks, ever anew, and in many forms. If we observe the variations of those presentations, we see in them the intentions that guided his whole life. A biography that shows Steiner's intentions and efforts in the context of the times and his life circumstances will not only relate what happened, but also why. His work does not, as in many modern biographies, disappear behind the life story. A student of Rudolf Steiner during the late 1890s observed: "I never again had a teacher like him. He was gaunt, shabbily dressed. He always wore an old coat; his trousers looked like corkscrews, much too short and worn out. At first he sported a van Dyke, then a mustache, then he was clean shaven.... Everyone loved him dearly, and I would have, as would most of the others, gone through fire for him.... He was loving and concerned in a way that I have never again discovered in another person. Funny--I often asked my fianc e whether he was really as poor as he seemed to be; during breaks he always took a dry roll out of his pocket and ate it with visible enjoyment. But if you think that they left him in peace during the break, you are way off base. The whole group gathered around him and the questions were endless." This is the most comprehensive biography of Rudolf Steiner available, tracing his life and development through an in-depth look at his life and work, which encompassed numerous areas, including his Goethean research, philosophy, esoteric work, pedagogy, medicine, sociology, agriculture, architecture, painting, movement arts, and poetry. This biography, which tracks his divergent activities, shows how Rudolf Steiner was most concerned with bringing a new approach to knowledge through Spiritual Science and to revitalizing the most important areas of human culture and society.
Download or read book Buzzy and the River Rats written by John Clarke Hoffman and published by Mercury Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Little Bee Sunbeam written by Jakob Streit and published by Waldorf Publications. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This story/reader for younger children relates the adventures of a honeybee named Little Bee Sunbeam. The little bee is in a search [of] a particularly good nectar to make honey when it suddenly becomes very cold. Honeybees cannot fly when the temperature drops so abruptly, and our little bee must spend the night alone in the forest where an exciting adventure unfolds ..."--Publisher description.
Download or read book The Tales of Tiptoes Lightly written by Reg Down and published by Trafford. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of Tiptoes Lightly, who lives in an acorn high up in the branches of a Great Oak Tree.
