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Waldorf Journal Project
The Waldorf Journal Project, sponsored by the Waldorf Curriculum Fund, brings to English-speaking audiences translations from essays, magazines, and specialized studies from around the world. This third edition of translations is comprised of articles intended for personal and faculty study. Some of the articles such as the ones on life’s anxieties/life’s opportunities, hearing, sleep disturbances, sexuality, puberty and its crisis, and drug addiction, will be significant to share with parents. Hopefully, they will be aids in helping to understand and transform some of the challenges the modern world has placed on children and on raising children.
For those not interested in downloading the material, spiral bound copies are available at:

AWSNA Publications
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Earlton, NY 12058
by e-mail at: rbellack@awsna.org
by phone at: (518) 634-2222

The editor is interested in receiving your comments on the articles selected. We would also be interested in hearing what areas you would like to see represented in future Journal Projects. If you know of specific articles that you would like to see translated, please contact me. David Mitchell, Editor, Waldorf Journal Projects

Waldorf Journal Project #15 - Michaelmas (all articles in one large file)
Michaelmas and the Soul Forces of the Human Being by Rudolf Steiner
The Activity of Michael and the Future of Humanity by Rudolf Steiner
The Michael-Christ Experience of Humankind by Rudolf Steiner
The Work of Michael by Dr. Ita Wegman, MD
Why Do Waldorf Schools Celebrate Michaelmas? by David Mitchell
Working with the Festivals through the Twelve Senses by David Mitchell
The Deeds of Michael: A Collection of Tales and Legends from Around the World
Feast of St. Michael (from the Golden Legend); Michael Legends (from a speech by Pico Della Mirandola); Gothic Hymn unto the Archangel Michael (from the Greek); Michael (Greek Hymn from the Middle Ages);
Michael in the Ancient Orient
Michael as Indra (from the Rigveda); The Bhagadvad-Gita as a Reflection of Michael's Battle in Heaven; Michael as Mithra (from the Avesta); Mithras, Revealing the Sacred Names (from a Mithras Liturgy); Michael as Marduk
Michael According to the Conceptions of the Hebew People
Creation of Adam; Michael as Guardian of the World; Michael Tests Moses' Willingness to Sacrifice; Michael, Savior of Isaac; Moses' Death; The Four Winds; The Rainbow; The Bowl of the World; The Book of the Seventy-Two Signs; Michael Guardian of Paradise
Michael and the Mystery of Golgotha
Golgotha (Russian Legend); Michael and the Risen One (from Rejentime Easter Play, 15th Century)
Michael According to Manichean Conceptions
Michael and the Evil (Ancient Bulgarian Legend); Michael and the Doubter (German Legend)
Legends Concerning Michael's Workings in Places Consecrated to Him
Michael's Sanctuary in Chonae (from the Greek); The Sanctuary of Michael on Mount Gargano (Latin Legend); Mont Saint-Michel (French Legend); Mont Saint-Michel (Chronicle of the City of Speyer)
Michael as Healer
The Leper Jew; The Unfulfilled Vow; The Blind Man; The Posessed
Worship of Michael from the Time of Charlemagne to the 10th Century
Sequence on St. Michael Dedicated to Emperor Charlemange (Latin Hymn from the Middle Ages); The Dragon of Ireland (French Legend)
Michael's Transition from Legend to the History of the Fading Middle Ages
Michael as Friend of Mankind (Icelandic Legend); Michael Leads the Army of Barbarossa (German Legend); To St. Michael (Latin Hymn, Middle Ages, 11th Century); How Henry II Beheld Michael on Monte Gargano and How He Was Touched and Lamed by Him (German );
Michael's Transition from Legend to the History of the Fading Middle Ages, continued
Prayer (from Old Norway, circa 1300); The Death of Elizabeth of Thuringa (German Legend); Lucifer's Crown( from "Singers' Contest of Warburg, " 13th Century); The Vision of Jeanne d'Arc (Account of Jeanne d'Arc's Deposition); Michael, the Angel, Speaketh
Michael in the European East
St. Michael on the Crescent Moon (After a Polish Legend); Of Michael, the Archangel (from the Russian)
Michael According to the Conceptions of Simple Folk
Why the Sole of Man's Foot is not Even; Miner's Song (from Bohemia); The Devils Scythe (French Legend); What the Peasants of Normandy Tell about Michael
Michael's Cosmic Activity
The Twelfth Chapter of the Revelation of St. John; Concerning the Iron in the Kalewala and the Spiritual Forge in the North
Spanish Michael Legend
The Legend of Mont Saint-Michel (Guy de Maupassant)
Waldorf Journal Project #14 - Darwin and More (all articles in one file)
Forward by David Mitchell
What Makes Human Beings Human? by Wolfgang Schad
Darwin's Incomplete Knowledge of Death by Wolfgang Schad
Darwin Suffered from Darwinism by Wolfgang Schad
Body Movements are Invisible Thinking, Mathematical Thinking is Inner Movement by Erik Marstrander
What is Goetheanism? by Trond Skaftnesmo
The Hippopotamus and the Eagle by Trond Skaftnesmo
Close Contact with the Earth: Necessary Experiences that Provide a Basis for Lessons in Natural Sciences - An Interview with Linda Jolly by Eli Tronsmo
Physics Lessons that Start with the Human Being by Geir Oyen
The Power of Observation in Literature Lessons by Tom Horn
Insight into Human Nature as a Basis for Waldorf Education: Anthroposophy and Modern Brain Research by Helge Godager
Music: An Endangered by Magne Skrede
Think Globally and Act Locally: The Ecology Practicum in the 11th Grade by Holger Bauman
Performing Arts versus Degraded Speech by Magne Skrede
From Crisis to Cooperation by Sylvia Fuehrer
Productivity and Receptiveness - How Do We Work Together on the School Organism? by Karl-Martin Dietz
Waldorf Journal Project #13 - Educating the Will (all articles in one file)
Foreward by Editor: David Mitchell
Awakening the Spirit Powers of the Head: Educating the Will by Christof Wiechert
Wake up Your Headspirit: At Eye Level by by Tobias Richter
Awaken the Spirit of the Head: Pyramids and Stars by by James Pewtherer
Man's Will is His Kingdom of Heaven by by Hartwig Schiller
Artistic Activity - Individual Resonance - New Paths by Claus-Peter Roh
Bringing the Will into Thinking in Adolescence by Betty Staley
Learning is a Royal Path to Freedom by Hartwig Schiller
Rhythm is a Source of Regeneration by by Dirk Cysarz
Art: Awakener of Consciousness, Humanizer for Society by Van James
The Push for Early Childhood Literacy: A View from Europe by Christopher Clouder
Childhood Falls Silent by Dr. Rainer Patzlaff
Painting and the Child by by Caroline von Heydebrand
Waldorf Journal Project #12 - Research into Childhood (all articles in one file)
Foreward by David Mitchell
Rhythm and the Learning Process by Dirk Cysarz
Novel Methods of Researching Learning by Gunter Haffelder
The Advantage and Disadvantage of Brain Research for Pedagogy by Christian Rittelmeyer
The Symphony of Life Importance, Interaction, and Visualizing of Biological Rhythms by Maximilian Moser
Observations on Neurological Development by Complied by David Mitchell
Seven "Myths" about the Social Participation of Waldorf Graduates by Wanda Ribeiro and Juan Pablo de Jesus Pereira
Study of Waldorf Graduates in Denmark by Troels Hansen
Waldorf Journal Project #11 -Morality and Ethics in Education #2 (all articles in one file)
Forces Leading to Health and Illness in Education by Rudolf Steiner
Transformative Education and the Right to an Inviolate Childhood by Chrispoher Clouder
The Human Self by Karl Brodersen
The Free and Human Self by Ted Warren
Recapitulation (Recall) in the High School Main Lesson by Ken Power
The Odyssey of Conscience by Henning Andersen, Reviewed by Oddvar Granly
War and Peace and Moral Imagination by Oscar Borgman Hansen
The Power of Moral Education- Geography by Christof Goepfer
Ethics and the Perspective on Nature by Oscar Borgman Hansen
The Being of the Internet by Sergei Prokofieff
Waldorf Journal Project #10 - Morality and Ethics in Education #1 (all articles in one file)
Education and the Moral Life by Rudolf Steiner
Education of the Will as the Wellspring of Morality by Michaela Glockler
Human Development and the Forces of Morality by Ernst-Michael Kranich
Conscience and Morality by Karl Brodersen
The West and East in Us by Jorgen Smit
Reincarnation and Pedagogy by Valentin Wember
Moral Imagination by Oscar Borgman Hansen
The Christmas Mystery and the Knowledge of Evil by Hermann Popplebaum
Evil and the Well-Intended by Oscar Borgman Hansen
Crafts and Morality by Dr. Thomas Weihs
Waldorf Journal Project #9 Teaching Science Through the Grades
A Study of the Element by Christian Smit
Water as the Medium for Life by Jorgen Smit
Goethe's Theory of Color by Torger Holtsmark
Zoology and Mythology by Jens Bjorneboe
Chemistry in Grades Seven to Nine by Jan Haakonson
Astronomy: The Oft Forgotten School Subject by Sven Bohn
The Starry Heavens and Our Self by Jorgen Smit
Teaching Biology in a Human Context by Graham Kennish
Aesthetic Knowledge as a Source for the Main Lesson by Peter Guttenhofer
Adolescents - Their Relationship to the Night and the Senses in Connection With Their own Development by Peter Glasby
Thoughts on Information and Communication technology by Florian Oswald
From Waldorf Journals Project #8 - From Norway: Teaching History Through the Grades (all articles in one file)
A Phenomenological Approach to the Subject of History by Oddvar Granly
Fairy Tales and Legends by Jens Bjorneboe
Through the Golden Forest by Leif Warenskjold
What about the Old Testament by Dan Lindholm
Moses by Karl Brodersen
Francis of Assisi by Dan Lindholm
Sparta and Athens by Jorgen Smit
The Romans by Christian Faye Smit
Jeanne d'Arc, an Enigmatic Figure in the Middle Ages by Jorgen Borgen
I and the Others, Strengthening a 7th Grader's Relationship to the World through History and Geography by David Brierley
Modern History in the Light of the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution by Svein Bohn
The Ninth Grade and the Industrial Revolution by Hans-Jorgen Hoinaes
The Minute Man, an Aphorism of the True American Spirit by Wolfgang Schuster M.D.
From Waldorf Journals Project #7 Musings From Norway (all articles in one file)
The Path Through Life by Karl Brodersen
Time: Rudolf Steiner's Contribution to a Modern Mythology by Jacob Qualburg
The Michaelic Human Being Interview by Sven Ake Lorentson
The Playful Human Being by David L. Brierly
Six - An Important Year by Astrid Sunt
Reality and Joy in the School Garden by Linda Jolly
What's Inside Here?
Some Thoughts about Childen and the Inner Nature of Wood by Lars Wegge
About Seeing the Heart by Arne Øgaard
The Role of Old Age in the Course of One's Life by Karl Brodersen
The Development of the Human Being Through the Great Cultural Epochs by Conrad Englert-Faye
From Waldorf Journals Project #6 Shaping One's Life and Forming the World (all articles in one file)
Social Conflict and the Sub-Natural Forces by Friedrich Glasl
Craft and Morality by Dr. Thomas Weiss
Empathy by Dr. Thomas Weiss
Youth Guidance and Empathy by Anke Weiss
Organology and Physiology of Learning Aspects of Educational Theory of the Body by Wolfgang Schad
Thoughts on the Idea of Evolution by compiled by Arthur Auer
Three Kinds of Milk: A tale from the Swiss Alps by Conrad Englert-Faye
Waldorf Education in South Africa by James Pewtherer
A South African Elegy by Margarethe Mehren
Encouragement for Sculpture by Peter A. Wolf
Memories of a Former Waldorf Student by Margarethe Mehren
Section from Memories of a Former Waldorf Student in German by Margarethe Mehren
From Waldorf Journals Project #5 Evaluation, Homework and Teacher Support (all articles in one file)
The Quest for Wholeness in the Waldorf Curriculum by Erhard Fucke
What Wants to Emerge? by Claus-Peter Röh
Evaluating, Judging, Testing, and Learning by Robert Thomas
The Role of Evaluation and Examinations within Waldorf Education within Different Age Groups by Martyn Rawson
Endings or Openings? Graduating or Launching? by Rüdiger Iwan
Learning Autonomously, Disinterest Instead of a Thirst for Knowledge by Thomas Jachmann
How Meaningful Is Homework? by Telse Kardel
When Is Homework Necessary? by Walter Kraul
Homework – Obligation or Free Task by Dietrich Wessel
The Art of Conversation: Speaking, and Silence by Heinz Zimmermann
Saint Michael in the Midst of Everyday Life an interview with Gudrun Koller by Thomas Stockli.
Angels and Star Children: An Excursion to Their Workshop by Thomas Stockli
Examples of Children’s Tapestries by Gudrun Koller
From Waldorf Journals Project #4 Foundations for a Healthy Life (all articles in one file)
Play and Toys in the Life of Toddlers by Elke Blattmann
Child’s Play and Its Significance for Healthy Development by Rudolf Kischnick
Does Life Have Meaning? Destiny and Reincarnation by Walter Bühler
Overstimulation – “I Have No Time” by Walter Bühler, Alfred Schütze, and Rudolf Treichler
The Restless Child – Advice for Parents and Teachers by Dr. Johannes Bockenmühl
Sugar – The Sweet Addiction by Otto Wolff
Sunlight and Our Exposure to It by Lüder Jachens
The Healing Power of Lively Thought by Walter Bühler
The Healing Power of Quiet Contemplation and Prayer by Hans-Werner Schroeder .
The Emergence of the Idea of Evolution at the Time of Goethe by Frank Teichman
Osiris and Isis by Jorgen Smit
Osiris and Isis, a Play by Jorgen Smit
From Waldorf Journals Project #3
Life’s Anxieties – Life’s Opportunities: by Pietro Archiati and Felicitas Vogt
Sleep Disturbances and Healthy Sleep by Christa-Johanna Bub-Jachens
Nutrition: Modern Food: Is It Really Future-Oriented? by Petra Kühne
Food and Nutrition: What Nourishes Our Children? by Petra Kühne
The Feet Reveal the Human Will by Norbert Glas
Hearing: Door to the Soul and Spirit Around Us, with a Look at Technological Media by Heinz Buddemeier
The Unfolding of Sexuality by Mathias Wais
Puberty and Its Crisis: Educational Help in Overcoming Difficulties by Dr. Johannes Bockemühl
Drug Addiction: The Wake-up Call of Our Times by Felicitas Vogt
Education Seen as a Problem Involving the Training of Teachers by Rudolf Steiner
From AWSNA Publications:
Child Development and Pedagogical Issues, by compiled and edited by David Mitchell
Chapters from this book are as follows:
The Making of a Teacher by Henry Barnes
Child Development - Conception to Birth: Embryology from an Anthroposophical Perspective by Bruno Callegaro, M.D.
Early Childhood Today: Wish and Reality by Walter Rietmuller
The Kindergarten Child by Peter Lang
Creating a Meadow for Childhood: Education for a New Millenium
What Do Young Children Need Today? by Sally Schweitzer
Psychology and Early Years Learning: Affirming the Wisdom of Waldorf by Richard House
Children's Questions by A.C. Harwood
Non-Verbal Education: A Necessity on the Developmental Stages by Michaela Glockler, M.D.
Child Observation and Study by Michaela Glockler, M.D.
Some Aspects of Child Study Work in Faculty Meetings by Magda Lissau
Overview of Childhood Characteristics by David Mitchell
Encountering the Individuality of a Child by Walter Riethmuller
Tell Me a Story: The Narrative of Active Learning by Martyn Rawson
Sleep as a Task of Waldorf Education by Peter Loebell
The Effect of Lunar Nodes on Human Biography: Our Hidden Plan by Susanne Donato
The Adolescent Years by L. Francis Edmunds
From the recent publication, The Dynamic Heart and Circulation, published by AWSNA Publications in 2002.
The Dynamic Heart and Circulation by Craig Holdrege
The Heart: A Pulsing and Perceptive Center by Craig Holdrege
The Physiology of Circulation: A Reappraisal by Hermann Lauboeck