Understanding Child Development: Steiner's Essential Principles for Waldorf Education - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936849534 ISBN 13: 9781936849536

Publisher: Waldorf Early Childhood Association North America, 2020

Synopsis

Translated from Angelika Wiehl and Wolfgang-M. Auel's Kindheit, this book is the result of the editors’ many years of experience as Waldorf educators and leaders in teacher training. Understanding Child Development presents a selection of Rudolf Steiner’s source texts on childhood, scholarly commentary, supplemental essays on sensory development and imitation, suggestions for studying the texts, and a discussion of the future of childhood. Includes a selection of Steiner’s source texts on early childhood collected in English for the first time.

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About the Authors

Dr Angelika Wiehl, co-founder of the Wolfsburg Waldorf School in Germany and teacher for many years, is now a lecturer in education sciences and Waldorf education at the Institute for Waldorf Education, Inclusion and Interculturality at Alanus University, Mannheim, Germany.

Dr Wolfgang-M. Auer, a teacher in Steiner-Waldorf schools for over 30 years, currently lectures worldwide on Waldorf education with specific focus on anthropology and the education and development of the senses.

Margot M. Saar taught at Waldorf Schools in the UK for twenty years, has translated many books, and is now working as a full time translator and conference interpreter.

Edition details

• Publisher: Waldorf Early Childhood Association North America
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1936849534
• ISBN 13: 9781936849536
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234
• Editor: Wiehl Angelika, Auer Wolfgang-M