SWSF Bookshop - Quality Development Series

SWSF Bookshop - Quality Development Series

Institutions of the Spiritual Life
By Bernard Lievegoed
40pp, no discount £3.50

The Founding of the First Waldorf School in Stuttgart
Transcript of lectures given by Johannes Tautz, Spring Valley, 1982
56pp, no discount £4.50

Quality Development
By Martyn Rawson and Jan Swann
Waldorf education is all about development, but how consciously do we make the process? This booklet examines the fundamental principles and methods of developing quality within Waldorf schools using the existing educational and management resources to hand. The booklet includes an introduction to such aspects of quality as self-management, vision-making processes, leadership, developing individual abilities, educational research, trust and working together, and many aspects of evaluation.
No discount £4.50

Teachers as Researchers
Using the teachers' meetings as a focus for practice-based research
Compiled by Martyn Rawson
One of the characteristics of Waldorf education since its inception has been the central role of practice-based research. This booklet shows how the modern methods of action research can be integrated into an anthroposophical approach, with contributions from Dr. Heinz Zimmermann, Prof Herbert Altrichter, Dr. Peter Posch, Thomas Stöckli, Martyn Rawson and Jan Swann.
No discount £6.50

Teachers Helping Teachers
Mentoring in Steiner Waldorf Schools
Compiled and edited by Trevor Mepham
This booklet contains a wealth of practical advice as well as reflections on the pedagogical principles underlying co-mentoring and intervision. Topics include: principles and practice of co-mentoring, mentoring of new teachers, supporting Class l teachers, stress avoidance, lesson preparation, guidelines for self-assessment, dealing with crisis in the classroom.
No discount £6.50

Pupil Assessment in Steiner Waldorf Education
By Trevor Mepham and Martyn Rawson
This booklet addresses the pedagogical role and value of pupil monitoring and assessment within the context of Waldorf education. Waldorf education is primarily concerned with enabling individual development and this booklet shows how a process-orientated approach to monitoring and assessment can support the child as well as being a useful instrument of pedagogical research. Topics include: the wider educational context, a summary of the principles underlying pupil assessment, differences between monitoring and assessment, stages of assessment, the spectrum of assessment-related activities in Waldorf schools, what, when and how to monitor, guidelines for record keeping, portfolios, assessment in Early Years, school report writing, Open College Network, pro-forma examples of student profiles, assessment sheets and record keeping.
No discount £6.50

Guidelines for Staff and Teacher Assessment
Eds., Martyn Rawson and Jan Swann
An introduction to the principles and practice of teacher assessment within the context of quality development. Examples of assessment procedures are given
No discount £4.50

The SWSF Code of Practice
Developed over a period of many years within the UK Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship for member institutions, the COP offers schools and early years settings not only a description of standard requirements but examples of good practice. The COP has been revised and restructured to become part of a quality development process and may be of interest to other educational institutions beyond the SWSF.
No discount. £4.50

Perspectives in Quality Care in Steiner Education
Ed. Christopher Clouder
A collection of working papers prepared for the Second Quality Care Conference in Zurich in September 2001. A publication of the European Council for Steiner Waldorf Education.
No discount £5.50

Confronting Conflict
A first-aid kit for handling conflict
By Friedrich Glasl
Dr. Friedrich Glasl has worked with conflict resolution in companies, schools and communities for over 30 years, earning him and his techniques enormous respect. Confronting Conflict is authoritative and up to date, containing new examples, exercises, theory and techniques. Confronting Conflict will be useful for managers, facilitators, management lecturers and professionals such as teachers and community workers, mediators and workers in dispute resolution.
HP, 192pp, no discount £12.99

Becoming a Teacher : Steiner's Indications for Teacher Education, Development and Training by Johannes Kiersch
SSF Publications.
£6.00 no discount

Work and Learning
New educational challenges
Ed Martyn Rawson
This study is the outcome of three year's research into the changing nature of society and the demands this makes on an holistic education./ The authors, Dr. Michael Brater, Rudiger Iwan, Martyn Rawson, Mathias Riepe and Thomas Stöckli have carried out this wide-ranging research on behalf of the Pedagogical Section in Dornach. The report includes descriptions of a range of Waldorf related projects that are already pioneering new approaches to work and learning.
56 pages. No discount £3.50

Learning and Language
Peter Lutzke and Martyn Rawson
This collection of essays (which includes pieces by Alain Denjean, Dr. Christof Jaffke, Michael Rose and Dr. Heinz Zimmerman) takes a radical look at the nature of language, at language learning and the formative qualities inherent in language. The themes include: the sense of language, language learning as a sensory process, the spiritual dimension in language and especially in foreign language acquisition. Whilst the main emphasis is on foreign language learning, wider aspects of the Anthroposophical approach to linguistics make this collection of much wider interest.
84 pages. No discount £3.50