Introduction
To meet
the increasing opportunities for Waldorf education to become a major
source of educational renewal in our time requires of the Waldorf School
movement that it continue to deepen its own work, to enter into open
and informed conversation with the larger society and educational world,
and to demonstrate that its educational understanding and experience
will enable our children to meet with well-grounded confidence the ever-increasingly
uncertain future they surely face.
As a response
to this challenge, the Research Institute for Waldorf Education was
established in 1995. The Research Bulletin is published by the Research
Institute for Waldorf Education and has the following aims:
—To
serve as a newsletter announcing ongoing research and related activities
—To carry brief but substantive discussions of fundamental research
issues and questions
—To describe research projects currently underway
—To provide for the exchange of information and views within
a growing body of readers
Current
Issue
Spring 2006,
Volume 11, Number 2
Report from the
Co-Directors - David
Mitchell and Douglas Gerwin
From
the Editor - Stephen Keith Sagarin
Reading in Waldorf
Schools Begins in Kindergarten and Avoids Clouding the Mind's Eye -
Arthur Auer
Universal Human
Nature:
The Challenge of the Transition from Kindergarten to Elementary School
-
Martyn Rawson
Art:
Awakener of Consciousness - Van James
The Seven Cosmic
Artists:
An Artistic View of Child Development - Madga Lissau
Education and
Healing:
Rudolf Steiner
Nurturing Human
Growth:
A Research Strategy for Waldorf Schools - Askel Hugo
Work of Reserach
Fellows
Nature Deficit Disorder - David Mitchell
On Creativity - Stephen Keith Sagarin
Allergic Disease and Sensitization in Waldor/Steiner School
Children
- Philip Incao, M.D.
Left-handedness:
A Call for Research -
Douglas Gerwin
Book Reviews:
Assuming Nothing: Judith Harris on Nature vs. Nurture - Eugene
Schwartz
Against Agriculturalism: A Review of Two Books by Kay Hymowitz
- Jon Mc Alice
Introducing "Network
M"
A New Website for Waldorf School Graduates and Teachers - Douglas
Gerwin
Reports from
Current Projects of the Research Institute
Waldorf Graduate Research Phase II - Arthur Pittis
Reading Writing and Reading Comprehension
- Paul Gierlach
Rudolf Steiner Library Accommodates Sleuths from the Research
Institute -
David Mitchell
Teaching Sensible Science
Report on the Online Waldorf Library - Marianne Alsop
Back Issues
Autumn
2005, Volume 11, Number 1 (text of all articles in one file)
Report
from the Co-Directors - David Mitchell and
Douglas Gerwin
From
the Editor - Stephen Keith Sagarin
Puberty
as the Gateway to Freedom - Richard Landl
Soul
Hygiene and Longevity for Teachers - David Mitchell
The
Emergence of the Idea of Evolution in the Time of Goethe - Frank
Teichmann
The
Seer and the Scientist - Stephen Keith Sagarin
The
Four Phases of Research
Report
on the Work of the Pedagogical Reserach Center of the German BUND
Work
of the Research Fellows:
Beyond Cognition: Children and Television Viewing - Eugene Schwartz
International Student Assessment and Computer Use: What Do
Recent PISA Surveys Show? - Jon McAlice
State Funds for Waldorf Schools in England - Douglas Gerwin
On Looping - David Mitchell
The Children's Food Bill - Christopher Clouder
All
Together Now!
Oscilations of Heart Rate and Respiration
Synchronized During Poetry Recital - Review by Stephen Keith Sagarin
Reports
from Current Projects of the Research Institute
Waldorf Graduate Research, Phase II - Arthur M. Pittis
Remedial Matematics Project - Lori MacKinder
Reading,Writing, and Reading Comprehension - Paul Gierlach
Teaching Sensible Science - Gary Banks
Report
on the Online Waldorf Library - Marianne Alsop
Waldorf High School Senior Survey - Waldorf High School Research
Project
Rigor
Asked for in High Schools - Review by Stephen Keith Sagarin
Contents from Past Reserach Bulletins
About
the Research Institute for Waldorf Education
June
2005,Volume 10, Number 2 (text of all articles)
From
the Editor - Douglas Sloan
The Current Debate about Temperament - Walter Riethmüller
Waldorf Education:Transformation Toward Wholeness - Vladislav Rozentuller
and Steve Talbott
The Art and the Science of Classroom Management - Trevor Mepham
Spiritual Reserach: Casting Knowlege into Love - David Mitchell and
Douglas Gerwin
Research on Waldorf Graduates in North America: Phase 1 - Faith Baldwin,
Douglas Gerwin, David Mitchell
Book Review:
Tech Tonic: Towards a New Literacy of Technology by Alliance of Childhood
Reviewed by Sharna Olfman, Ph D
The Online Waldorf Libraray - Marianne Alsop
About the Research Institute for Waldorf Education
January
2005, Volume 10, Number 1 (text of all articles)
From the
Editor - Douglas Sloan
Science and the Child - Steve Talbott
Can Meditation Take the Place of Exercise? - Michaela Glöckler,
M.D.
Non Verbal Education: A Necessity in the developmental Stages - Michaela
Glöckler, M.D.
Organic Functionalism: An Important Principle of the Visual Arts in
Waldorf School Crafts and Architecture - David Adams
The Lowering of School Age and the Changes in Childhood: An Interim
Report
Claudia McKeen, Reiner Patzalff, Martyn Rawson
The Online Waldorf Library - Marianne Alsop
About the Research Institute for Waldorf Education
Announcement: New Course on Teaching Science
June
2004, Volume 9, Number 2 (text of all articles)
From the
Editor - Douglas Sloan
Wellspring of the Art of Education: Three Reversals in the Work of the
Waldorf Teacher - Christof Wiechert
Discovering the True Nature of Educational Assessment - Paul Zachos
The Kindergarten Child - Peter Lang
The Teaching of Science - David Mitchell
Evolution of Consciousness, Rites of Passage, and the Waldorf Curriculum
- Alduino Mazzone
Book Review:
All Work and No Pay... How Educational Reforms are Harming our Preschoolers
by Sharna Olfman, Reviewed by William Ward
Correspondence: Stephen Sagarin Responds
What Studies have Been Published on Waldorf Education?
The Online Waldorf Libraray - Marianne Alsop
About the Research Institute for Waldorf Education
January, 2004
Volume 9, Number 1
From the
Editor -
Douglas Sloan
Rudolf Steiner and the New Educational Paradigm - Christof
Weichert
Teaching as Learning in a Steiner Setting - Christopher Clouder
Education towards Health is Education towards Freedom - Johannes Denger
The Stranger in the Mirror: Reflections on Adolescence in the Light
of Movement Education - Jaimen McMillan
Pulling the Grass Doesn't Make it Grow any Faster - Gerald Huether
The New Generation of Children - Renate Long-Breipohl
Book Reviews:
The Mysteries of the Social Encounter by Dieter Brull, reviewed by Scott
Olmsted
Extraordinary Lives: Disability and Destiny in a Technological Age by
Steve Talbott, reviewed by Lowell Monke
The Online Waldorf Library Project - A Progress Report by Marianne Alsop
About the Research Institute for Waldorf Education
June,
2003 Volume 8, Number 2 (text of all articles)
From the
Editor - Douglas Sloan
The Vital Role of Play in Early Childhood Education - Joan Almon
In What Respect Are Star Children Different? - Georg Kuhlewind
The Hague Circle Report to North American Waldorf Schools - Monique
Grund and James Pewtherer
Special Section:
The Push for Early Childhood Literacy; Taking a Careful Look - Editorial
Note
Moving in Slow Motion - Barry Sanders
The Push for Early Childhood Literacy: A Risk Factor in Childhood Psycopathology
- Sharna Olfman
The Push for Early Childhood Literacy: The Loss of Nature - William
Crain
The Push for Early Childhood Literacy: A View from Europe - Christopher
Clouder
Book Review:
Reclaiming Childhood: Letting Children Be Children in Our Achievement-Oriented
Society By William Crain - Reviewed by Edward Miller
Correspondence: No Such Thing?
The Online Waldorf Library Project - A Progress Report - Marianne Alsop
The Research Institute for Waldorf Education - Looking Towards the Future
- Susan Howard, Director
About the Research Institute for Waldorf Education
January, 2003 Volume
8, Number 1
From the
Editor - Douglas Sloan
No Such Thing: Recovering the Quality of Rudolf Steiner's Educational
Work - Stephen Keith Sagarin
Beyond Innovation: Education and Ethos in an Era of Ceaseless Change
- Langdon Winner
How Poems Teach us to Think - Gertrude Reif Hughes
Educating the Will: Part 3, Common Will and Comprehensive Will - Michael
Howard
Whom are We Teaching? - Susan Kotansky
June,
2002 Volume 7, Number 2 (text of all articles)
The Research
Institute for Waldorf Education - A Progress Report, by Roberto Trostli
On Forgetting to Wear Boots, by Steve Talbott
Organizations as Living Organisms: Developing a Seven-fold View, by
Magda Lissau
Educating the Will - Part II: Developing Feeling Will in Contrast to
Sense/Nerve Will, by Michael Howard
"Let's quickly go over that again..." Recapitulation and the
Waldorf Curriculum, by Alduino Mazzone
Online Waldorf Library Project - A Progress Report, by Dave Alsop
Being on Earth - A Sketch of a Forthcoming Book, by Stephen Edelglass,
Georg Maier, and Ron Brady
About the Research Institute for Waldorf Education
January,
2002 Volume 7, Number 1
Creating
a Sense of Wonder in Chemistry, by David Mitchell
Science
a Process or Dogma? The Case of the Peppered Moth, by Craig Holdrege
Spirit
Will and Ethical Individuality, Part 1, by Michael Howard
Did
Rudolf Steiner Want a Seven-Grade Elementary School Configuration?
by Mark Ricco
Phases
and Transitions in Waldorf Education, by Harlan Gilbert
Waldorf
High School Research Project: Who is the Teenager Today? by Douglas
Gerwin
Initial
Report of the Waldorf ADHD Research Project, by Kim Payne, Bonnie
River-Bento, Anne Skillings
International
Survey of the Status of Waldorf Schools, by Earl Ogletree
Case
Study Research: The Waldorf Teacher, by Nina Ashur
Research
Institute Publications
About
the Research Institute for Waldorf Education
June,
2001 Volume 6, Number 2
Trained
to Kill, by Dave Grossman
Education
of the Will as the Wellspring of Morality, by Michaela Glöckler,
M.D.
Hand
Movements Sculpt Intelligence, by Arthur Auer
The
Online Waldorf Library Project, by Dave Alsop
Waldorf
Science Education: An Investigation of Curriculum & Practice,
by David Jelenik
Rudolf
Steiner Library Information
January,
2001 Volume 6, #1
Confronting
the Culture of Disrespect, by Langdon Winner
Where
Is the Waldorf School Movement Going? by Johannes Kiersch
Computers
in Education: Why, When, How by Lowell Monk and Valdemar Setzer
Low
SES Minority Fourth-Graders' Achievement, by Jennifer Schieffer
and R.T. Busse
Balancing
the Four Polarities, by Dorit Winter
Education
As An Art, by Michael Howard
Main
Lesson Block Teaching in the Waldorf School by Roberto Trostli
Rudolf
Steiner Library Information
June,
2000 Volume 5, #2
Balance
in Teaching, Balance in Working, Balance in Living, by Roberto Trostli
Adult
Education in the Light of Anthroposophy, by Michael Howard
Setting
Priorities for Research, by Susan Howard, Douglas Sloan and Roberto
Trostli
Update:
Attention-Related Disorders (ARD) Study, by the Research Team
Update:
Learning Expectations and Assessment Project (LEAP), by staff
Update:
Cultural Renewal for the New Millennium: Major Challenges and Educational
Tasks by staff
January,
2000 Volume 5, #1
The
Real Meaning of Hands-on Education, by Frank Wilson, M.D.
America's
Gold Rush: Can It Be Redeemed? by Dorit Winter
Atopy
in Children of Families with an Anthroposophic Lifestyle, by Johan
Alm, M.D. et. al.
Update:
The Alliance for Childhood and State of the World Forum on Childhood,
by Joan Almon
Update:
LEAP Project, by Bob Anderson
Update:
San Francisco Conference on the Four-fold Heart of Waldorf Education,
by Cindy Bajema
Update:
The Work of the Waldorf Education Research Institute, by Susan Howard
June,
1999 Volume 4, #2
Human
Biography and its Genetic Instrument, by Michaela Glöckler,
M.D.
Challenges
and Opportunities in Evolution Education, by James Henderson
Genes
and Life-The Need for Understanding, by Craig Holdrege
The
High Stakes of Standardized Testing, by Edward Miller
Ecology-Coming
Into Being Versus Eco-Data, by Will Brinton
Update:
ARD: A Waldorf Approach to Attention Related Disorders, by Kim Payne,
Arthur Zajonc, and Martha Hadley
Update:
Forming An Alliance for Childhood, by Colleen Cordes
Update:
Waldorf High School Research Project, by Douglas Gerwin
Book
Review: Sensible Physics Teaching, by Michael D'Aleo and Stephen
Edelglass
January,
1999 Volume 4, #1
ADHD-the
Challenge of Our Time, by Eugene Schwartz
Helping
Children: Where Research and Social Action Meet, by Joan Almon
Computers,
Brains, and Children, by Stephen Talbott
Movement
and Sensory Disorders in Today's Children, by Dr. Peter Stuck
Update:
The Research Institute: The First Three Years, by Susan Howard and
Douglas Sloan
The
Nature Institute, by Craig Holdrege
Concerning
Anthroposophical Research, an interview with Michaela Glöckler,
M.D.
Can
Waldorf Education Be Practiced in Public Schools, by Patti Smith
June,
1998 Volume 3, #2
Educating
the Whole Person For the Whole Life, by Gerald Karnow, M.D.
Understanding
the Etheric Organization in the Human Being: New Insights Through Anthroposophical
Research, by Michaela Glöckler, M.D.
Endangered
Childhood, by Joan Almon
January,
1998 Volume 3, #1
Schooling
the Postmodern Child, by David Elkind
Developing
a Culture of Leadership Learning and Service in Waldorf Schools,
by Christopher Schaefer
The
Third Space, by Henry Barnes
What
Conditions Are There for Taking Responsibility in an Independent Life
of Culture? by Heinz Zimmermann
Update:
Essentials of Waldorf Education Study, by Patti Smith
Update:
Racism in Waldorf Education, by staff
June,
1997 Volume 2, #2
Towards
Wholeness in Knowing: Notes from the Invitational Research Consultation,
by staff
A
New Educational Paradigm, by Michaela Glöckler, M.D.
Organology
and Physiology of Learning, by Wolfgang Schad
The
Middle Passage-Out of Diversity We Become Whole, by Cindy Weinberg
New
Health Problems of Children and Youth, from the University of Bielefeld
Research
into Changes in Brain Formation, by Michael Kneissle
Rudolf
Steiner's Efforts to Encourage Cultural Diversity, by Detlef Hardorp
January,
1997 Volume 2, #1
Technology
issue including:
Violence
and the Electronic Media, by Joan Almon
Meetings
with a Snake, by Stephen Talbott
Impact
of Computer Use on Neural and Cognitive Development, by Donna Chirico
Book
Review: The Wholeness of Nature, by Henri Bortoft
Book
Review: The Marriage of Sense and Thought, by Stephen Edelglass,
et. al.
Book
Review: Silicon Snake Oil, by Clifford Stoll
Book
Review: Life on the Screen, by Sherry Turkle
June,
1996 Volume 1, #2
Racism
and Waldorf Education, by Ray McDermott and Ida Oberman
Reflections
on the Evolution of Consciousness, by Douglas Sloan
Standardized
Testing, by Eugene Schwartz
January,
1996 Volume 1, #1
Introducing
the Waldorf Research Institute of North America, Douglas Sloan and
Susan Howard
Encounters
in Education - A Tribute to Ernst Boyer, by Eugene Schwartz
Waldorf
Education in an Inner City Public School System: A Report, by Douglas
Sloan and Susan Howard
The
Urban Waldorf School of Milwaukee: A Summary Report, by Ray McDermott
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