In The First Seven Years, Dr. Edmond Schoorel looks at childhood from the perspective of physiological development describes the landscape we encounter when rearing children. It is clear that a one-year-old requires a different approach from that needed to raise a healthy four-year-old, who displays psychological differences, as well as differences in his or her stage of physical and biological development. Meanwhile, the Western lifestyle does not make it easy for young children. They are continuously encouraged to become consumers and to develop a demanding, even commanding, attitudes rather than encountering the world with admiration, wonder, curiosity, and imagination.

The author shows that the first seven years of childhood should occur in a free space without concern or anxiety about the future. During these early years, everything is provisional. Children and their caregivers should be preparing seeds for the child's future and the future of the world.

The First Seven Years provides the background of this singular period of development. This book is meant to be read by preschool and kindergarten teachers, parents and prospective, grandparents, and anyone who can benefit by knowing more about the principles and secrets of the first seven years.

For Waldorf teachers, math is often one of their most difficult subjects. Memories of schooldays mathematics can cloud one's view of the students' developmental needs, whereas Steiner's many pedagogical suggestions do not indicate a structure for a cohesive math curriculum. Thus, teachers have developed various ways of teaching math during since the beginning of Waldorf education in 1921. Such diversity underscores the unique responsibility teachers carry for mathematics lessons.

This guide is not in any way intended to diminish that responsibility, but to help establish a unified view of Steiner's statements for a developmentally appropriate math curriculum. The approaches suggested here might differ from existing programs in several areas--for example, in its direct and immediate beginning to math activities and reluctance to use images for introducing numbers to young students.

This guidebook will be useful for teachers and schools in moving toward a more collegial and systematic approach to teaching mathematics in Waldorf classrooms.

Here is one of the best introductions for painters and anyone interested in a deeper understanding of the nature of color. The book highlights the amazing depth of knowing that lies behind the beautiful paintings of watercolorist Liane Collot d'Herbois, whose application of the color theories of Rudolf Steiner and Goethe, together with her overall understanding of anthroposophical principles, are very much in evidence in her paintings.

Schroff delves into the mysteries of color, light, and darkness from artistic, scientific, and esoteric perspectives. With a detailed how-to section on the specifics of the Collot watercolor technique, this edition, expanded from her earlier book, contains illustrations in color of paintings by both Collot and Schroff, as well as an extensive bibliography to encourage further research.

- Soul and Spirit
- Light, Color, and Darkness
- Philosophy and the Painter's Art
- Laws of Color
- Atmosphere and the Movement of Color
- Prism Exercises
- Rainbows, Refractions, and Reversals
- Intervals and After-Images
- Collot Painting Therapy
- Meditations

The book features a major section on the life and work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of the first to point out the special characteristics of North America. This is a book for any person looking for a deeper understanding of our troubled times and our future possibilities.

FIVE LECTURES

Dr. Michaela Glöckler begins by focusing on the pedagogical law as suggested by Rudolf Steiner in his lecture course Education for Special Needs. She illumines the comprehensiveness of that law--the insight it offers into the functions of our fourfold human nature and the karmic effects of our fourfold activity from one life to another.

She then takes us on a path that starts with the physical body, pointing to some of the wonders of embryological development, and then brings to our consciousness further growth rhythms of the brain and other organs. She demonstrates the difference between human and animal and shows how, in animals, wisdom and intelligence have formed the physical body and express themselves through instinct.

Dr. Michaela Glöckler opens new doors of understanding for teachers that lead to a deeper understanding of the significance of releasing intelligence from the body for human development.

This publication shows how light-darkness-color therapy (for which Liane Collot d'Herbois gave the creative impulse) provides the basis for precise, complete, and reliable diagnosis of a patient's condition with regard to various symptoms and their interrelationships. This makes it possible, in collaboration with a doctor, to offer a therapeutic plan adapted to an individual's special needs.

Part 1 studies a key lecture by Rudolf Steiner that allows us to for a basis for understanding the human constitution in relation to its spiritual, soul, etheric, and physical constituents, as well as the various currents that flow through them. We thus discover a concept of pathology from two essential notions--the formation of foreign bodies and the tendency to an illness similar to congenital consumption--as well as general elements of how to conduct a therapy.

Part 2 shows how these elements correspond directly to the concepts of the human being in health or illness, according to the light-darkness-color approach.

Part 3 demonstrates--by analyzing pictures drawn by the patients in charcoal and in color--how to establish a diagnosis in relation to the two pathological tendencies described. Thus, one can assemble the elements of diagnosis and therapy for the different types of depression in relation to the cardinal organs: the liver, kidney, lung, and heart.

Diagnostic and Therapeutic Elements in Light-Darkness-Color is useful for artists, art therapists, medical professionals, and anyone interested in the relationship of light, darkness, and color for the human organism.

Rudolf Steiner, the founder of Waldorf education, was convinced that social problems can be solved only with the help of pedagogy that educates the whole human being and education that strives toward the truly human--respect for the autonomy of others and loving interest and honesty in our approach to them. To achieve this, however, will be possible only when teachers and parents acquire a detailed understanding of the developing child's being and the needs of specific developmental stages.

That is what this book addresses, and I hope it will have many appreciative readers among parents, teachers, and students who seek an education that devotes itself to the deeper strength and challenges of the individual child with 'heart and healing.'--Michaela Glöckler

Part I helps teachers and parents broaden and deepen their understanding of the growing child.

Part II focuses on classroom activities unique to Waldorf education.

Part III focuses on self-transformative work necessary for Waldorf teachers as well as for all adults.

The reality of the fairy stories lies in the fact that their content portrays soul experiences, cosmic truths, the process of the individual's development, the elemental world, folk wisdom, and apocalyptic imaginations. These reports, however, are not couched in conceptual language, but in imaginative pictures. A whole world of spiritual scientific knowledge is contained in them.

This book interprets thirty-nine popular fairy tales from an Anthroposophical point of view.

Stars, snowflakes, suns, flowers, and other luminous figures can decorate your windows. This is for all the seasons, not just Christmas. Vibrant colors of tissue paper, lit by the sun to the very center of the design, brings joy in many ways. Many of the figures have three-dimensional effects, as well as suggesting movement.

No rulers or calculations are needed for these easy, step-by-step instructions. The colors of the tissue paper can be changed simply by using water or by applying watercolors--the reative possibilities are endless.

Stars and Flowers will be useful in classrooms, for home schooling, and for parents with young children.

In the context of classrooms, mathematics often seems to be a trivial affair of counting and measuring. In itself, however, it has wide-ranging implications. Teachers who dwell on these will be in a position to convey the material to their students in a far more extensive and interesting way than are those who take a more superficial approach.

Mathematics, the science of space and number, is universal and all-embracing. It manifests everywhere, sometimes obvious, sometimes less so. However, like all of nature, it reveals itself to inquiring minds.

At long last, teachers, parents, and, most important, the students in their charge can again benefit from Roy Wilkinson's insights into teaching mathematics. Here, in his typically concise and complete style, Wilkinson shares the basics of the Waldorf approach to teaching mathematics in grades 1 through 8. Each page is packed with direction, examples, and a world of understanding.

Teaching Mathematics an outstanding resource for anyone who wants to know more about the art of teaching applied to the world of numbers.

in 1947, shortly after the author met Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy, his friends in Brussels invited him to a performance of Richard Wagner's Parsifal at the Royal Opera. The music drama made an indelible impression on him and stirred disturbing questions. Thus his search began and soon he read all he could find by Steiner on the Holy Grail. Years later, René Querido began to lecture on the topic of the quest for the Holy Grail.

The Mystery of the Holy Grail: A Modern Path of Initiation contains in essence of those lectures which werre developed over the years, particularly in Europe and North America. Although they have been revised for publication, the oral flavor of the lectures has been retained.

Self-help for adults.Teachers, businessmen and women all agree that handwriting has deteriorated. Much money and time are wasted because of illegible handwriting. The formal way of teaching writing required too much time and repetition. So, there was a swing away from the formal teaching with nothing to replace it. The value of writing was denigrated, and in order to expedite the process, machines (typewriters, computers) were introduced. This removed the necessity for the thorough teaching of handwriting.

Writing creates a basis on which students build skills for reading and communication. If Johnny writes, his reading improves. Many students have reverted to printing, expressing a dislike of their writing because it looks ugly.

Book I is produced to help teachers, students, and interested individuals to work toward beautiful, clear handwriting through form drawing.

Book II utilizes these forms in the creation of letters that are pleasing to the eye.

Your handwriting is you; improve it!

Self-help for adults.

In Book II, we continue to use form drawing, using the curved and straight lines as in Book I, beginning to add the formations of the letters of the alphabet. Our goals are:

1. to reach the artistic experience of writing;
2. to lead one toward an experience of painting the letters;
3. and to reduce tension, create a rhythmic flow, and produce writing that is pleasing to the eye.

The final product will be as uniquely individual as your finger print.