Introduction
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
3911 Bannister Road
Fair Oaks, CA 95628
by phone at: 916/961-0927
or by e-mail at: awsna@awsna.org
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
The Articles
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 with 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 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:
Anxiety
and Its Importance to Inner Development Two Essays
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, 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
Points for Observation in Child Study 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
