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by Rudolf Steiner

ISBN: 1855840421
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: PB

Price: £13.95

Education for Special Needs;The Curative Education Course
In 1924 attitudes toward people with special needs were radically different than they are today. That year, a small group of teachers and doctors recognized the need for change this area of education and asked Rudolf Steiner for this seminal lecture course as a fresh basis for renewing their work.

Many decades later, the movement he inspired has grown enormously, with hundreds of homes around the world for both children and adults with special needs. Revolutionary in its approach, the ...read more
by Rudolf Steiner

ISBN: 0880104147
Publisher: Steiner Books
Format: PB

Price: £10.95

Education of the Child, The
As early as 1884, while tutoring a boy with special needs, Steiner began a lifelong interest in applying spiritual knowledge to the practical aspects of life. Steiner originally published the essay at the core of this book in 1907. It represents his earliest ideas on education, in which he lays out the soul spiritual processes of human development, describing the need to understand how the being of a child develops through successive “births,” beginning with the physical body’s entry into ...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 Michael Luxford

ISBN: 0863155480
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £7.99

Children with Special Needs: Rudolf Steiner's Approach
A concise introduction to Rudolf Steiner's ideas on the development and education of children with special needs.

Steiner's insights have led to the creation of special needs schools, communities and villages around the world. Camphill, an important part of this network, exists on four continents.

This little guide, illustrated throughout with colour photographs, gives an overview of the development of the child, educational options and therapies for special needs, and special ...read more
by Robin Jackson

ISBN: 0863155472
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £14.99

Holistic Special Education: Camphill Principles and Practice
Parents and professionals working with special needs children often face difficult decisions about the child's education. This book puts forward the case for holistic special education, as practised by Camphill schools.

Camphill's holistic approach embraces education and therapy in various forms, all aspects of care – including, for those children receiving residential care, everything from nutrition to bedtime routines – as well as crafts and medical treatments. It emphasizes the ...read more