SWSF Bookshop - The Curriculum

SWSF Bookshop - The Curriculum

Class Teachers' Handbook
Kevin Avison
Originally published in 1995, this Handbook has been reprinted numerous times due to demand. It has now been fully revised and expanded by the author. New features include checklists for identifying children with special educational needs. The sections indicating aims and basic skills objectives have now been extended up to Class 8 and forms for record keeping have been revised.
95 Pages. £10.50

The Educational Tasks and Content of the Steiner Waldorf Curriculum
Eds., Tobias Richter and Martyn Rawson
This book describes the teaching methods and approach of Waldorf Education from Kindergarten to Class 12. It also describes the vertical development of each subject throughout the curriculum, as well as giving an overview of the work in each class. The book also contains descriptions of typical non-classroom activities such as work experience, projects and excursions. There are sections on quality development, pupil and teacher assessment, school management and early years.
This curriculum offers various possible approaches to each stage of development by showing a range of possible teaching contents. It is therefore inclusive rather than prescriptive. As the most comprehensive reference book on the Waldorf Curriculum to date, this book should interest teachers, parents and students but will also be of use to education officials and academics.
"…a gift for the Waldorf movement. It is the first version of the modern Waldorf curriculum that can be presented in non-Waldorf circles. It is written in best English scientific style, lively and accessible, undogmatic and open for productive innovation" – Johannes Kiersch in Erziehungskunst. 220pp £19.50

Towards Creative Teaching
Eds., Martyn Rawson with Brien Masters
A reprint of this popular work on the class-teacher curriculum
now in A4 format 91pp £7.50

Rudolf Steiner's Curriculum for Waldorf Schools
By Karl Stockmeyer
Reprint. A4 soft cover 146pp – £10.50

The Curriculum of the First Waldorf School
By Caroline von Heydebrand 67pp £4.50

Language Teaching in Steiner Waldorf Schools
By Johannes Kiersch and Norman Skillen
This book provides a thorough introduction to Steiner's ideas on language and the teaching of modern languages. It should be helpful not only to language teachers but to anyone interested in the ideas underlying Steiner Waldorf Education.
142pp £9.50

Educating Through Arts and Crafts
An integrated approach to craft work in Steiner Waldorf Schools
Ed. Michael Martin
This book not only describes the full range of crafts taught in Steiner Waldorf schools, it also puts them into the context of the developing human being. It is becoming more and more recognised that the skills acquired in working with wood, metal, textiles, ceramics, among other materials, enable the individual to develop a whole range of transferable skills which form a basis for lifelong learning, as well as cultivating insight into technology and a sound relationship to the earth. A separate section describes the work of the Hiram Trust who helped to make the publication of this book possible.
Fully illustrated.
210pp £19.50 Available Now

A Path of Discovery
By Eric Fairman
This series of eight booklets, each devoted to a lower school class, offers a practice-based resource for the teacher. Eric Fairman, an experienced Waldorf class teacher, gives examples of lesson content, texts, poems, songs, descriptions of practical classroom activities. These booklets will be of particular use to those practising Waldorf-based home-schooling.
No discount, each £11.50

Volume 1

Volume 2

Volume 3

Volume 4

Volume 5

Volume 6

Volume 7

Volume 8