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Author Ullrich, Heiner, 1942-

Title Rudolf Steiner / Heiner Ullrich ; translated by Janet Duke and Daniel Balestrini
Published London ; New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 261 pages)
Series Continuum library of educational thought ; v. 11
Continuum library of educational thought ; v. 11.
Contents Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Foreword; Prologue; Part 1 Intellectual Biography; 1. Childhood and Youth Abroad: Scholastic Success and Intellectual Curiosity; 2. Studies and Work as a Tutor in Vienna: The Basis for an Idealistic Worldview; 3. Archivist in Weimar: The Philosophy of Goethean Natural Science; 4. Writer and Speaker in Berlin: The Free Spirit Converts to Theosophy; 5. The Path to the Goetheanum: The Elaboration of Anthroposophy as Science, Religion and Art; 6. A New Era: The Wisdom Teacher's Move to Social Reform and Renewal of Education; Note
Part 2 Critical Exposition of Steiner's Philosophical and Educational Work7. Goetheanism: The Epistemological Early Works; 8. Anthroposophy: An Overview of Steiner's Basic Teachings; 9. The Path of Cognition; 10. Cosmology: Emanation of the Spirit and the World's Evolution; 11. Anthropology: Man's Fourfold Architecture; 12. Man's Functional Threefold Structure; 13. Biography as Reincarnation and Destinal Chain ('Karma'); 14. The Four Temperaments; 15. Ages and the Development of the Human Person; 16. The Concept of Education; 17. The Free Waldorf School
18. A School in the Spirit of Anthroposophy?19. The Waldorf Pre-School and the Anthroposophical Curative Education; Part 3 The Reception and Influence of Steiner's Works; 20. Anthroposophy as a Philosophy Without Boundaries; 21. Anthroposophy as the Return of Mythical Thought Within Science; 22. Anthroposophy -- A Modernized Form of Gnosis; 23. The Free Waldorf School: A School of Classic Progressive Education?; 24. Between Prohibition and Continuation as Experimental State School: The Ambivalent Interest of the NSDAP in Waldorf School Practice
25. The Importance of Waldorf Pedagogy for State Schools26. Waldorf Schools: The Dubious Character of Their Fundamentals and the Prerequisites of Their Success; 27. Learning from the Waldorf Schools -- A New Dialogue and its Themes; Part 4 The Relevance of Steiner/Waldorf Schools Today; 28. The Global Success of Rudolf Steiner's Pedagogy; 29. How Successful are Waldorf Schools? -- Evaluation Studies; 30. What Do Waldorf Pupils Do After Graduation and How Do They See Their School in Retrospect? -- Alumni Studies; 31. How Do Teachers and Pupils View the Waldorf School? -- Attitude Studies
32. Class Teacher-Pupil Relationships at Waldorf Schools -- A Current Research ContributionNotes; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; A. Works by Rudolf Steiner; B. Other Works and Articles; Further Reading in English (Compiled by Daniel Balestrini); C. Electronic Resources; D. Basic Concepts in Steinerian Thought1 (Glossary); Note; Index
Summary Rudolf Steiner is indisputably a major thinker in education. Heiner Ullrich's volume offers the most coherent account of Steiner's educational thought. This work is divided into:Intellectual biography. Critical exposition of Steiner's work. The reception and influence of Steiner's work. The relevance of the work today
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-250) and index
Notes Translated from the German
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Subject Steiner, Rudolf, 1861-1925
SUBJECT Steiner, Rudolf, 1861-1925 fast
Steiner, Rudolf. swd
Subject Educators -- Biography
Anthroposophists -- Biography
Education -- Philosophy.
Waldorf method of education.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Educators.
EDUCATION -- History.
EDUCATION -- Comparative.
Anthroposophists
Education -- Philosophy
Educators
Waldorf method of education
Waldorfpädagogik
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
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