Download or read book The Waldorf School Approach to History written by Werner Glas and published by Rudolf Steiner Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication presents parents, teachers, and educational policy-makers with an account of history instruction in Waldorf schools. An introduction outlines the theoretical content of the Waldorf School movement, the school's emphasis on creating a unity of experience, and the evolution of history instruction through the elementary grade curriculum. Chapter 1 outlines the dual task of teaching history: the horizontal surface approach (geography) and the consideration of the changing consciousness of humankind as experienced in the cultures of the past (history). In chapter 2, scope and sequence of geography instruction is presented: local environment and geography and economics in the intermediate grades, cultural geography in the middle grades, geography and spiritual outlook and geography and law in the high school grades. Rationales for and treatment of the history of civilization and culture are presented in chapter 3. Theoretical concepts, strategies, and resources for teaching about Egypt, India, Mesopotamia, and Greece are discussed. Waldorf pedagogy comprises the focus of chapter 4. Chapters 5 through 8 outline the Waldorf method, resources, and grade level sequence for teaching Western civilization from Rome through modern Europe. European religious and cultural history is emphasized. (LP)
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 262 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 The History of Waldorf Education Worldwide 1919 1954 Volume I written by Nana Goebel and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1919, following the end of the First World War, Emil Molt put money aside for a school for the children of his workers at the Waldorf Astoria Cigarette Company in Stuttgart, Germany. He was interested in a new approach to education, and asked Rudolf Steiner to design the new curriculum. Steiner insisted that the school be open to children beyond the factory, and at the end of the first year, there were over 800 students. Teachers were experts in their fields, and came from far and wide.One hundred years later, and Waldorf education continues to go from strength to strength. Flying in the face of mainstream education which demands rote learning and artificial testing, Waldorf education prioritises a delicate unfolding of each child's potential. There are over 1,000 Waldorf school worldwide.This book is the first of three volumes celebrating one hundred years of educational revolution.
Download or read book The Waldorf School Approach to History written by Werner Glas and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Introduction to Waldorf Education and Other Essays written by Rudolf Steiner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected here are fourteen essays by Rudolf Steiner covering subjects such as Waldorf Education, The Reordering of Society, The Human Soul, Karma, and Knowledge. These essays are informative and lively. Rudolf Steiner was an Austrian philosopher, literary scholar, educator, artist, playwright, social thinker, and esotericist. His contributions to society were immense.
Download or read book Teaching History written by Christoph Lindenberg and published by Assn of Waldorf Schools of. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The approach to history in Waldorf schools is unique and looks to characteristic biographies and symptomatology to bring a memorable thread of stories to the course of history and human development over time. The book is an invaluable resource for building these pictures from students from grades five and through the twelfth grade on practical and creative ways to think about history and to follow the threads of activity and the influence of decisions and events in one part of the world on other parts of the world and on the course of human endeavor. The author is an experienced historian and teacher and brings insight into his explanations. A must for every serious history teacher in elementary and secondary grades, looking for creative approaches to teaching history!
Download or read book The Story of Waldorf Education in the United States written by Stephen Keith Sagarin and published by Rudolf Steiner Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing more than a decade of research, this book is the first account of the history and development of Waldorf education in America. Looking at the past and present with an eye to how the understanding of the term Waldorf education has changed over time, the author identifies key trends in education, both Waldorf and general education, to imagine the direction in which Waldorf education may move in the future. Part one shows how the number of Waldorf schools grew slowly and steadily and how they have evolved through four generations, changing gradually from "experiments" to "alternatives" and, in the process, forging and re-forging Waldorf education itself. Part two examines the methods and myths of Waldorf education, showing what is essential and what is extraneous. Peeling away layers of convention and even misunderstanding, the author reveals Waldorf education as what many believe Rudolf Steiner, its founder, intended it to be: a living method of education that may be employed by any teacher or any school. As Waldorf education comes increasingly into public view and into public schools, primarily through charter schools, questions about what Waldorf education is (and is not) are becoming increasingly relevant. The author concludes that Waldorf education is not a method that can be packaged and sold, but a living method that depends on insight for continual renewal. The Story of Waldorf Education in America is a fresh, insightful, analytical, and valuable resource for parents, teachers, and educators who would like to know more about Waldorf education--whether they have extensive experience in the Waldorf education or have only just heard of it.
Download or read book The Roadmap to Literacy A Guide to Teaching Language Arts in Waldorf Schools Grades 1 Through 3 written by Janet Langley and published by Mill City Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steiner Waldorf Pedagogy in Schools written by Martyn Rawson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive exploration of Steiner or Waldorf pedagogy and practice in schools. Drawing on key research, it traces the origins of Steiner education from the original Waldorf school and shows how this approach has since been adapted and applied in educational settings around the world. Outlining the educational philosophy of Steiner education, the book considers its unique features, such as its commitment to a pedagogical anthropology that takes the whole developing human being into account – body, mind and spirit – and the developmental approach that arises out of this. It sets out the specific curriculum and teaching approach alongside vignettes of teaching and learning situations adopted in Steiner educational settings to show how the approach works in practice. Offering a critical perspective on this teaching style, Rawson examines the contributions that Steiner education has made in different cultures and looks towards future developments in China and other Asian countries. Considering all aspects of Steiner education, this book is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the fundamental elements of this approach and its continuing relevance within the educational landscape.
Download or read book The Curriculum of the First Waldorf School written by Caroline von Heydebrand and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a complete account of the curriculum at the Waldorf School at Stuttgart as it was taught during the time of Rudolf Steiner.The curriculum appears as Steiner planned it, and was assembled by collecting the accounts of several teachers working at the school during the 1920s. One of the teachers at the Waldorf School, Dr Caroline von Heydebrand, assembled this First Curriculum and it is republished here with an introduction outlining the origins and use of the curriculum, notes from the translator, details on the 1966 revision and a detailed arrangement of the class schedules under the First Waldorf Curriculum.
Download or read book The Montessori Method written by Maria Montessori and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Certain aspects of the system are in themselves striking and significant: it adapts to the education of normal children methods and apparatus originally used for deficients; it is based on a radical conception of liberty for the pupil; it entails a highly formal training of separate sensory, motor, and mental capacities; and it leads to rapid, easy, and substantial mastery of the elements of reading, writing, and arithmetic. - Introduction.
Download or read book Understanding Waldorf Education written by Jack Petrash and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a teacher with more than 25 years of experience, this book offers a jargon-free view of Waldorf education and its philosophy of the importance of a three-dimensional education. Through learning experiences that involve all of the senses, children use a variety of intelligences to develop thought, feeling, and intentional, purposeful activity. Whether you're Waldorf parent or teacher, or you just want to learn more about these innovative educational concepts, this book contains important ideas on learning that you can apply today.
Download or read book Deeper Insights in Education written by Rudolf Steiner and published by Steiner Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speaking to the teachers at the first Waldorf school in Stuttgart, Steiner addresses three issues: a living synthesis of gymnast, rhetorician, and professor as a necessity for successful teaching.
Download or read book The Foundations of Human Experience written by Rudolf Steiner and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 1996 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formerly entitled The Study of Man this lecture course, newly translated for this series, contains some of the most remarkable and significant lectures ever given by Rudolf Steiner.
Download or read book Teaching Mathematics in Rudolf Steiner Schools written by Ron Jarman and published by . This book was released on 1998-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A resource book for Waldorf teachers which covers the Class 1 to 8 Steiner-Waldorf maths curriculum. Features include: " ... how arithmetic can be introduced effectively in the early years so you can start teaching with confidence ... Draws number work from everyday life to stimulate children's interest and enthusiasm ... Gives examples for you to devise your own exercises ... Indicates how mixed ability teaching can be improved ... Relates maths to other subjects and to children's development."
Download or read book Practical Advice to Teachers written by Rudolf Steiner and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seer "sees' more than meets the eye, using the eyes of the soul along with the physical eyes. As all seeing is a form of cognition, higher seeing is the key to higher cognition or knowing. For human beings the spiritual world is hidden deep within the disguise of the world available to the senses and deep within the human psyche, and human consciousness, enmeshed as it usually is in the physical senses, cannot easily be aware of both worlds. The human soul is the link between the physical sense-imbued body and direct experience of the spirit, because it has the latent ability to focus consciousness into any number of levels. The ability to determine the focus of awareness is our great gift and our great challenge. In this practical and accessible guidebook, Dennis Klocek, building on the alchemical tradition and the Western path of initiation developed by Rudolf Steiner, shows how the soul's latent ability can be awakened by conscious acts of will and rhythmical practices. The practices begin wherever we are in our everyday lives and take the seeker through the levels of concentration--the ability to create and hold an inner image; contemplation--the ability to transform the image and make it dynamic; and meditation--the ability to reverse the image, or think it backward into inner silence. After presenting the practical exercises, along with commentary, that identify and lay out the steps, Klocek shows us how the path can be followed through to an understanding of a seemingly impenetrable alchemical image of the soul's journey as he guides us up the Alchemical Mountain to heartfelt thinking. Through such a journey, it becomes possible for human beings to live as spiritual beings among other spiritual beings. For those who are serious about developing faculties of higher knowing and seeing, The Seer's Handbook is a unique, practical, and friendly handbook of exercises, meditations, and insightful commentary that will guide both beginners and more advanced students along the path to higher worlds.
Download or read book Searching for the Ideal School Around the World written by Alys Mendus and published by Arts, Creativities, and Learni. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shares the nomadology of Alys-we searching for the Ideal School around the world, sharing stories from places educating differently to traditional education, hoping to inspire readers to be part of a paradigm shift.
