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The Education Catalog for Parents, Teachers, and Children

The articles begin with “The Secret Garden,” by Tim Bennett and Melissa Borden, kindergarten teachers at the Seattle Waldorf School, where the early childhood education program holds an important place (with eight dedicated staff). This article is an ideal introduction for anyone who wants to know more about the day-to-day activities and programs in a Waldorf kindergarten. You can also visit the Seattle Waldorf School’s website at www.seattlewaldorf.org.

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Next, Dr. Susan Johnson, a Raphael House Pediatrician, discusses working with so-called problem children in “Healing Children with Attentional, Emotional, and Learning Challenges.” Dr. Johnson begins, “There is an epidemic in our society! More and more children are being assigned to labels.” She goes on to discuss what it means to label children as “ADD,” ADHD,” “PDD,” and with other stigmatizing combinations of the alphabet. Hers is an extremely important topic for every parent—especially those with children in public schools today. You can visit the Raphael House website at www.raphaelassociation.org.

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The next feature comes from a longtime kindergarten teacher, Sharifa Oppenheimer, author of an excellent new book from SteinerBooks—Heaven on Earth. We have included an excerpt from her book, “The Wonder of Stories.” Her book is sure to be a big hit with many parents with young children. It includes a bounty of suggestions for practical, day-to-day parenting of healthy, intelligent, and creative children. Sharifa is a founding teacher at the Charlottesville Waldorf School, Virginia, where she taught kindergarten for twenty-one years and served as day care director of the early-childhood program. Recently she initiated a home-based kindergarten program called The Rose Garden.

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Also included is “When You Are Your Child’s Teacher: School at Home with the Waldorf Curriculum” by Catherine Read of Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania. If you’ve ever wondered about pursuing this avenue to educate your children, you may want to read this article for both encouragement and practical advice.

This article is followed by a short excerpt and recipes from The Waldorf School Book of Soups.

Next, Susanne Down brings us an introduction to “The Healing Art of Nursery Rhymes.”

In addition to all the great articles, we offer dozens of our newest and favorite books, plus a complete list of all our titles.

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Like previous catalogs, the education catalog is available here for download (PDF) — Click here to download the 2006 Education Catalog.. Remember, if you would like to request any catalog (while supplies last), click here to send email to friends@steinerbooks.org. Be sure to give us your name and physical mailing address.

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You may also wish to receive our 2006 holiday catalog, which contains a number of interesting articles and, of course, our latest books of general interest.

The articles in this issue lead off with Christopher Bamford’s article, “Goethe in Marienbad.” Chris discusses the great sage and his inner and personal life during his later years. This is an especially interesting article for those who may be unfamiliar with the Eastern influence on Goethe’s thinking and poetry.

“Our Lady of Guadalupe” (featured on the cover of this catalog), is from Gene Gollogly, who tells the story of this important image of the divine feminine and her importance for the Americas.

Following that article is Christopher Bamford’s introduction to an upcoming book of lectures by Rudolf Steiner, Becoming Michael’s Companions. This volume contains an important lecture course directed at the young people who’d begun to gather around Steiner in the early 1920s—young people who were somewhat at odds with the older generation of Theosophists who had followed Steiner’s teachings for the previous fifteen or twenty years.

We also excerpted an introduction from the new book by Dr. Maria Nemcová Banerjee, Dostoevsky: The Scandal of Reason. Her book is on Dostoevsky’s most important works, viewed in the context of his life, his view of Christianity, the philosophers of his time, and the rightful place of reason. Given some of the religious discussions surrounding the issue of “reason” and Christianity and Islam, this is an important work for our time.

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