Education as Art by Waldorf Essentials & The Gnomes Home
Hosted by Lauri Bolland & Melisa Nielsen
Notes & Links
Here are the promised notes and permanent links for these podcasts. I hope they are helpful and cultivate confidence and peace within you, remember to keep striving.
The reading recommendations are split into segments and we provided links when possible. If you have questions or find broken links, please email us at waldorfessentials@gmail.com.
CLICK HERE for Part 1
CLICK HERE for Part 2
CLICK HERE for Part 3
CLICK HERE for Part 4
CLICK HERE for Part 5
Embracing being a mom, the joys of motherhood and homemaking, the value of learning who you are.
Print Books:
Spiritual Tasks of the Homemaker by Manfred Schmidt-Brabant
Homemaking as a Social Art
Start Now! By Steiner & Bamford
Online Resources:
Overcoming Nervousness
http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/19120111p01.html
Chaos in Everyday Life (the toilet article)
http://www.waldorflibrary.org/Journal_Articles/GW4503.pdf
Early Childhood and Kindergarten (thru age 6):
Print Books:
You are Your Child’s First Teacher
Before the Journey & our Kindy book
Online Resources:
The Parenting Passageway
http://theparentingpassageway.com/
The Being of the Internet article
http://www.waldorflibrary.org/Journal_Articles/PacificJ29.pdf
Narrating Values: The Place of Story Telling in Values Education by Trevor Mepham
http://www.waldorflibrary.org/Journal_Articles/valuesmepham.pdf
How to Nurture Storytelling by Nancy Mellon
http://www.waldorflibrary.org/Journal_Articles/GW3203.pdf
Joan Almon’s Choosing Fairy Tales
http://www.waldorflibrary.org/Journal_Articles/choosetales.pdf
Purposeful work in Kindergarten
http://www.waldorflibrary.org/Journal_Articles/purposefulwork%20doc.pdf
Kindergarten apron
http://www.waldorflibrary.org/Journal_Articles/GW53apron.pdf
First grade readiness
http://www.waldorflibrary.org/Journal_Articles/firstready.pdf
http://www.waldorflibrary.org/Journal_Articles/GW56deforest.pdf
http://www.whywaldorfworks.org/11_EffPractices/forms/RWdocs/FirstGradeReadiness.doc (I really like this, wish it was html)
Early Childhood & the Consciousness Soul
http://www.waldorflibrary.org/Journal_Articles/GW2902.pdf
The second seven years, 7-14:
Online Resources:
Kingdom of Childhood
http://www.steinerbooks.org/research/archive/kingdom_of_childhood/kingdom_of_childhood.pdf
Study of Man aka Foundations of Human Experience
http://www.steinerbooks.org/research/archive/foundations_hum_exp/foundations_hum_exp.pdf
Discussions with Teachers
http://www.steinerbooks.org/research/archive/discussions_with_teachers/discussions_with_teachers.pdf
Practical Advice to Teachers
http://www.steinerbooks.org/research/archive/practical_advice/practical_advice.pdf
Roy Wilkinson’s Introduction to Anthroposophy
http://www.anthroposophy.org.uk/book/
Michael Howard’s articles on the will (I think I found a second one from him)
http://www.waldorflibrary.org/Journal_Articles/RB7103.pdf (pt 1)
Developmental Signposts of Adolescence by David Mitchell
http://www.waldorflibrary.org/Journal_Articles/david%20mitchell.pdf
What are the Physiological, Soul, and Spiritual Changes in Youth Today by Betty Staley
http://www.waldorflibrary.org/lectures/betty%20staley.pdf
Education for Adolescents by Rudolf Steiner
http://www.steinerbooks.org/research/archive/education_for_adolescents/education_for_adolescents.pdf
Print Books:
Between Form and Freedom by Betty Staley – especially as you enter the teen years
Education Towards Freedom
Hold on to your kids by Gordon Neufeld
Encountering the Self
Rhythms of Learning
The third seven years, 14-21:
Online Resources:
Educating the Will Pt 2 (teens)
http://www.waldorflibrary.org/Journal_Articles/RIbulletinjune2002.pdf
The Prisoner’s Kiss (High School Language Arts guidelines)
http://www.waldorflibrary.org/Journal_Articles/Gierlachliteracyjourney.pdf
Education for Adolescents by Steiner
http://www.steinerbooks.org/research/archive/education_for_adolescents/education_for_adolescents.pdf
Print Books:
Between Form and Freedom by Betty Staley
Hold on to Your Kids by Gordon Neufeld
Rhythms of Learning
Remember Mom, this is a journey. Our hope is that you navigate it with a sense of humor and purpose. The striving is the most important part – strive to do better, work harder, parent happier – the striving is where it begins. Don’t wait, start now. Blessings.