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Johannes Grebe-Ellis,

The author of this experimental guide to the steam lifter was invited by the German Physics Society in 2019 to give a keynote on physics education at Waldorf schools - taking stock after 100 years at the spring conference at RWTH Aachen University.…

This book contains lectures and an address given by Rudolf Steiner as preparation for the opening of the first Waldorf School in Stuttgart in the fall of 1919. This period in Europe, following the end of the First World War, was one of instability…

Elias Kettnaker, Juli 2018,

In this book, Gerlinde Idler and Lutz Gerding have compiled the knowledge of 19 Waldorf physical education teachers. It offers basics and food for thought on almost 300 pages full of pictures. Each author refers to their own personal focus, so that a…

Christof Wiechert,

To say it from the outset: this work is based on a deeply and thoroughly researched and understood remembrance in the spirit. And it has another a special merit.

From an evolutionary perspective tools and the social practices they were embedded in and how these responded to the environments people dwelled in, were crucial to the emergence of human societies.

As long as foreign language teaching continues to be structured to address the “learning brains” of the pupils and there is no understanding that language is connected just as much with emotions and the body, it is a pleasure when books are published…

For some time now, newspaper articles have told us regularly how we can and should protect our personal data effectively when we use Internet services.

Most parents at some point in their child’s life have given in to sheer frustration and cried out ‘Why can’t you just sit still?’ This is the question van Dort addresses in her short guide to movement and play in child development.

I am pleased to be able to review another book from by Sally Goddard Blythe. Her previous publications, such as What Babies and Children Really Need and The Well Balanced Child, have proved informative and helpful to parents, carers and teachers…

Frances Hutchinson,

Twenty chapters by thirteen individual authors presenting their views on practical implementation of Rudolf Steiner’s societal vision present the reviewer with a daunting task.

Rosemary  Usselman,

In the 1950s and 1960s, Charles Kovacs was a class teacher at the Edinburgh Steiner School. It was his modus  operandi  to write abundant notes in preparation for his lessons and a series of books have been published, compiled from these notes, on…

Valerie Taylor,

This book uses ‘12 essential qualities’, or values, to go on a journey in parenting children. The author encourages us to firstly look at the habit patterns we have, both of word and deed, and how appropriate they are and, where necessary, to…

Frances Hutchinson,

According to my spell-check, dictionary and thesaurus, the word ‘anthroposophy’ does not exist. Yet here we have an academic text, written by the Emerson Senior Lecturer at Harvard Divinity School, on the role of anthroposophy in the history and…