Understanding Young Children

Please Donate below if you find these links helpful.

Borrow it from: Rudolf Steiner Library
Download it from: Online Waldorf Library


Your donations go towards keeping this site up to date with useful and relevant links to online lectures, books and audio. The money donated here is shared with those organizations that we use to bring you this free content.

To find out more about our free book resource program please see Free Book Resources on cfae.us

Thank you very much for your generous support!

[give_form id=”44474″]

 

  • 14 days easy return on books
  • International Shipping Available
Guaranteed Safe Checkout

Understanding Young Children

This compilation of excerpts from writings and lectures by Rudolf Steiner is an essential companion for every Waldorf early years teacher. It is meant to be a help for those working in Kindergartens founded on the educational principles of Rudolf Steiner. All the parents of little children, students and friends of Waldorf Education who are interested in a deeper understanding of child development will find in this book guide lines for The Study of Man.

It was Elizabeth Grunelius who first suggested compiling the following excerpts from Rudolf Steiner’s books and lectures. Already in the early twenties she asked Rudolf Steiner for suggestions on pre-school education, and founded the very first Waldorf Kindergarten in Stuttgart.

Contents include:

  • The Child before the Seventh Year
  • The Secret of the Doll – Love, Truth, Clarity
  • Walking, Speaking and Thinking – Gratitude, Love, Duty
  • Education of the Moral Life
  • Fantasy in the Child
  • The Senses and Imitation
  • The First Seven Years and the Development of the Consciousness

About the Author

Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) was born in the small village of Kraljevec, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now in Croatia), where he grew up. As a young man, he lived in Weimar and Berlin, where he became a well-published scientific, literary, and philosophical scholar, known especially for his work with Goethe’s scientific writings. At the beginning of the twentieth century, he began to develop his early philosophical principles into an approach to systematic research into psychological and spiritual phenomena. Formally beginning his spiritual teaching career under the auspices of the Theosophical Society, Steiner came to use the term Anthroposophy (and spiritual science) for his philosophy, spiritual research, and findings. The influence of Steiner’s multifaceted genius has led to innovative and holistic approaches in medicine, various therapies, philosophy, religious renewal, Waldorf education, education for special needs, threefold economics, biodynamic agriculture, Goethean science, architecture, and the arts of drama, speech, and eurythmy. In 1924, Rudolf Steiner founded the General Anthroposophical Society, which today has branches throughout the world. He died in Dornach, Switzerland.

Additional information

Author

Editor

Helmut von Kügelgen

ISBN13

9781936849154

ISBN10

1936849151

Published

February 2012

Format

PDF

Pages

72

Reviews

There are no reviews yet

Be the first to review “Understanding Young Children”

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *