TY - BOOK AU - Ullrich,Heiner TI - Rudolf Steiner T2 - Continuum library of educational thought SN - 0826484190 AV - LB775.S72 U5713 2008 U1 - 370.92 22 PY - 2008///] CY - London, New York PB - Continuum International Pub. Group KW - Steiner, Rudolf, KW - Educators KW - Biography KW - Anthroposophists KW - Education KW - Philosophy KW - Waldorf method of education N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-250) and index; Foreword --; Prologue --; Intellectual Biography --; Childhood and Youth Abroad: Scholastic Success and Intellectual Curiosity --; Studies and Work as a Tutor in Vienna: The Basis for an Idealistic Worldview --; Archivist in Weimar: The Philosophy of Goethean Natural Science --; Writer and Speaker in Berlin: The Free Spirit Converts to Theosophy --; The Path to the Goetheanum: The Elaboration of Anthroposophy as Science, Religion and Art --; A New Era: The Wisdom Teacher's Move to Social Reform and Renewal of Education --; Critical Exposition of Steiner's Philosophical and Educational Work --; Goetheanism: The Epistemological Early Works --; Anthroposophy: An Overview of Steiner's Basic Teachings --; The Path of Cognition --; Cosmology: Emanation of the Spirit and the World's Evolution --; Anthropology: Man's Fourfold Architecture --; Man's Functional Threefold Structure --; Biography as Reincarnation and Destinal Chain ('Karma') --; The Four Temperaments --; Ages and the Development of the Human Person --; The Concept of Education --; The Free Waldorf School --; A School in the Spirit of Anthroposophy? --; The Waldorf Pre-School and the Anthroposophical Curative Education --; The Reception and Influence of Steiner's Work --; Anthroposophy as a Philosophy Without Boundaries --; Anthroposophy as the Return of Mythical Thought within Science --; Anthroposophy - A Modernized Form of Gnosis --; The Free Waldorf School: A School of Classic Progressive Education? --; Between Prohibition and Continuation as Experimental State School: The Ambivalent Interest of NSDAP in Waldorf School Practice --; The Importance of Waldorf Pedagogy for State Schools --; Waldorf Schools: The Dubious Character of their Fundamentals and the Prerequisites of Their Success --; Learning from the Waldorf Schools - A New Dialogue and its Themes --; The Relevance of Steiner /Waldorf Schools Today --; The Global Success of Rudolf Steiner's Pedagogy --; How Successful are Waldorf Schools? - Evaluation Studies --; What Do Waldorf Pupils Do after Graduation and How Do They See Their School in Retrospect? - Alumni Studies --; How Do Teachers and Pupils View the Waldorf School? - Attitude Studies --; Class Teacher-Pupil Relationships at Waldorf Schools - A Current Research Contribution --; Epilogue ER -