Books of Educational and Social Value for Parents

2D Student ArtBooks by Rudolf Steiner, and by people who have developed his ideas, are available to Taikura Rudolf Steiner School parents at the Rudolf Steiner Anthroposophical Centre Library on the corner of Nelson Street and Whitehead Road (across the road from the School) with the entranceway off Whitehead Road.

The Rudolf Steiner Anthroposophical Centre Library has a considerable education section, including many of the Recommended Reading titles.  The School is assisting in developing the education section for parents by loaning additional books to the Library.

 

2D Student ArtThe Rudolf Steiner Centre Library is open to anyone interested in;

  • Exploring the background to Rudolf Steiner’s various initiatives,
  • Steiner’s books and lectures,
  • Writing from personal experience of Steiner initiatives.

Art, therapies, agriculture, social questions, as well as education, are all represented and the Rudolf Steiner Centre Library tries to keep up with the latest work in these fields and many others.  There is also a number of relevant Journals.

The Rudolf Steiner Centre Library is open every Wednesday from 8.15 – 9.00 am and 11.00 am – 3.00 pm.  Books may be borrowed for four weeks, and non-members of the Society pay $1 to borrow a book.  $0.50 per week is payable on overdue books.   The Librarian is Shirley Wall.

Contact Details;
Mrs. Shirley Wall
Rudolf Steiner Centre Library
500 Nelson Street North
Hastings 4122

 

Recommended Reading

Rudolf Steiner Centre Library, Catalogue for works on Childhood and Education

A Child is Born ... W. zur Linden
Adolescence - a Guide for Parents ... M.Carr-Gregg/E.Shale
Adolescence     On the Threshold of ... Herman Koepke
Autistic Children ... Lorna Wing
Awakening Intelligence ... Magda Lissau
Awakening to the Spirit   
Better Late Than Early ... R. & D.Moore
Between Form and Freedom - Teenage Years ... Betty Staley
Brothers and Sisters ... Karl Konig
Caring for Infants – With Respect      Dear Parents ... Magna Gerber
Challenge of the Will ... Margaret Meyerkort/Rudi Lissau
Child at Play    The ... Caroline von Heydebrand
Childhood - a Study of the Growing Soul ... Caroline von Heydebrand
Children at Play ... H. Britz-Crecelius
Children Who Communicate Before They Are Born ... Bauer/Hoffmeister/Goerg
Children’s Destinies ... Walter Holtzapfel
Children’s Illnesses (under medical section)   
Christmas With the Family ... Isabel Marion
Class Teaching ... Dr H.H. Engel
Commonsense Schooling ... Roy Wilkinson
Completing the Circle ... T Poplawski
Conception, Birth and Early Childhood  (Early Childhood) ... Norbert Glas
Constitutional Types in School Age Children ... Michaela Glockler
Creative Toymaking ... Alice A. Gorge
Curriculum for Waldorf Schools ... E.A. Karl Stockmeyer
Curriculum to the Eighth Class ... Caroline von Heydebrand
Curriculum Supplement on English Literature for each Class ... Eileen Hutchins
Curriculum of the Rudolf Steiner School ... R. Wilkinson
Drawing Lesson with Rudolf Steiner (short account) ... D.J.van Bemelen
Early Childhood ... N. Glas
Early Childhood Education & the Waldorf School Plan ... E. M. Grunelius
Educating the Adolescent - Discipline or Freedom ... Erich Gebert
Education as an Art ... Various authors with lecture by Rudolf Steiner
Education Through the Imagination (Oxford Conference) ... Margaret McMillan
Education Towards Freedom (Survey of Waldorf Schools) ... Various contributors
Education Through Art ... Hildegard Gebert
Encountering the Self ... Herman Koepke
Evident Need of Our Time    An ... Karl Ege
Experience of Knowledge   The ... J.F. Gardner
Extra Lesson   The   (Two Editions - Original text & expanded version) ... A.E.McAllen
Fairy Tales    Their Meaning & Exact Interpretation ... Norbert Glas
Fairy Tales   - The Wisdom in ... Ursula Grahl
Fairy Tales   The Wisdom of ... Rudolf Meyer
Festivals, Family and Food ... D. Carey/J. Large
Festivals with Children ... B. Barz
First Seven Years of Childhood (1 of series of booklets) ... Carl Hoffmann
First Seven Years   The   - Physiology of Childhood ... Edmond Schoorel
First  Three Years of the Child ... Karl Konig
Form Design ... Margaret Frolich
Forward Towards What? for Ourselves and Our Children ... Pelham S. Moffat
Free to Learn - Steiner-Waldorf Early Education ... Lynne Oldfield
The Free Waldorf School at Stuttgart ... F. Hartlieb
From the Wellsprings of the Soul (Religious teaching of the young) ... Herbert Hahn
Gardening With Young Children ... Beartrys Lockie
Geometric Drawing and the Waldorf School Plan ... H. von Baravale
Geometric Exercises ... T. Sundara Row
Getting on With Others ... John  Cooper
Golden Years   The ... John Benians
Growing Up in Religion ... E.Francis Derry
Gymnastic Education (See Gymnastische Erziehung for illustrations) ... Fritz von Bothmer
Healing Forces in the World ... Heinz Muller
Heaven on Earth ... S.Oppenheimer
He’ll Be OK - Growing Gorgeous Boys into Good Men ... Celia Lashlie
Homemaking as a Social Art (no card) ... Veronika van Duin
How to Help Your Growing Child  (Guide for Parents & Teachers) ... Ursula Grahl
Incarnating Child   The ... Joan Salter
In the Sea of Life Entangled  (Geography in the Waldorf School) ... David L. Brierly
The Interpretation of Fairy Tales ... R. Wilkinson
Intro to R. Steiner’s Way of Education ... J. Benians
Language and Speaking (Lectures at Camphill) ... Karl Konig
Learning to Write and Read ... R.Wilkinson
Learning Difficulties ... (Various contributions from Extra Lesson Practitioners)
Lifeways - Working With Family Questions ... Gudrun Davy/Bons Voors
Lighting Fires ... Jorgen Shmit
Loving the Stranger  (General Human Problems & Adolescence) ... ed. Michael Luxford
The Meaning - Grimm’s Fairy Tales ... N. Glas
Millennial Child - Transforming education in the 20th Century ... Eugene Schwarz
Miscellany ... R.Wilkinson
More Lifeways ... P. Smith/S.Schaefer
Mothering With Soul ... Joan Salter
Nine to Thirteen ... Julian Sleigh
Once Upon a Fairy Tale  Vol. I & II ... Norbert Glas
Origin and Development of Language    The ... Roy Wilkinson
Oxford Book of Nursery Rhymes ... Oxford University Press
Painting with Children ... Brunhild Muller
Parenting  a Path Through Childhood ... Dotty T. Coplen
Parsifal & the Search for the Grail  (High School Curriculum) ... Charles Kovacs
Path to Birth    The ... Norbert Glas
Physics in the Waldorf Schools. A Balance between Art & Science ... H. von Baravalle
Phases of Childhood ... B.J.Lievegoed
Play Therapy ... Ursula Bartning
Plays (21) for Children. 3 Sketches in French (no card) ... Pelham Moffat
Plug-in-Drug     The        (Television) ... Marie Winn
A Practical guide for Parents and Teachers  ... Ursula Grahl
The Problems of Lefthandedness ... G Hueck
Reading Children’s Drawings ... A.E.McAllen
Real Wired Child ... M Carr-Gregg
Recovery of Man in Childhood    The ... A.C. Harwood
Reflections on Discipline ... J.F. Gardner
Rudolf Steiner Education (Teachers’ Conference Camphill / Glencraig 1967) ... H.H. Engel
Remotely Controlled (Television) ... Dr Aric Sigman
Renewing Education ... F. Edmonds
Rudolf Steiner as Educator ... H. von Baravalle
Rudolf Steiner Education ... L. F. Edmunds
Rudolf Steiner Education ... David S. Lucas
Rudolf Steiner on Education ... Roy Wilkinson
Rudolf Steiner Education - Questions and Answers ... Roy Wilkinson
Rudolf Steiner’s Art of Education. An Introduction ... L.F. Edmunds
Rudolf Steiner’s Curriculum  for Waldorf Schools ... K Stockmeyer
Rudolf Steiner’s Way of Education - an Introduction ... John Benians
Sleep - an unobserved element in Education ... A.E. McAllen
Social Aspects of Rudolf Steiner Education ... R.Wilkinson
Spiritual Basis of Steiner Education ... Roy Wilkinson
Spiritual Tasks of the Homemaker ... Manfred Schmidt Brabant
Steiner Education and Social Issues ... Brien Masters
Steiner Education in Theory and Practice ... Gilbert Childs
Teaching as a Lively Art ... Marjorie Spock
Teaching Children to Write ... A.E. McAllen
Teaching Geography ... Roy Wilkinson
Teaching History  I  - V ... Roy Wilkinson
Temperaments in Education   The ... Roy Wilkinson
Thirteen to Nineteen ... Julian Sleigh
Twenty (20) Teachable Virtues ... Barbara C.Unell/Jerry L. Wyekoff
Time For Telling (Stories from around the World)   
Towards the Future ... I.Mulder/N.Carter
Toward an Open Mind ... D. Lucas
The Curriculum of the Rudolf Steiner Education ... R.Wilkinson
The Development of Language ... R.Wilkinson
The Right Instrument for Your Child ... Aratah ben Towin/Douglas Boyd
Thirteen to Nineteen ... Julin Sleigh
Twenty  (20) Teachable Virtues ... Barbara C.Unell/Jerry L.Wyekoff
Twenty one Plays for Children ... P.S. Moffat
Understanding Children’s Drawings ... Wolfgang Schad
Voyage Through Childhood Into the Adult World ... Eva Frommer
Waldorf Approach to History ... Roy Wilkinson
You wanted to know What a Waldorf School is.. ... Alan Harwood
Waldorf School "lehrplan"  ... C.v. Heydebrand
The International Waldorf Movement ... H.v. Braravalle
Understanding Children’s Drawings ... Michaela Straus
Way of a Child    The ... A.C.Harwood
Well, I Wonder   Children in the Modern World ... Sally Schweizer
What Effect has the Camera on You? ... N.Glas
Where Children Are - Beginning to Understand Waldorf Education ... John Allison
Who’s Bringing Them Up? ... Martin Large
Why Children Don’t Listen ... Kiel-Hinrichsen
Work and Play in Early Childhood ... Freya Jaffke
The Free Waldorf School at Stuttgart (no card) ... F.Hartlieb
The World of Matter and the Education of Man       (Chemistry) ... Fritz Julius
You Are Your Child’s First Teacher ... R. B. Dancy
You Shut Up!   Re-defining Teenager ... Eva Maria Salikhova