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Edited by Carol Ane Bärtges and Nick Lyons • Twenty-five years ago at the Rudolf Steiner School in New York City, Ekkehard Piening and Nich Lyons, long-time teacher and parent, edited a collection of articles concerning Waldorf education. Their efforts resulted in the volume known as Educating as an Art, published in celebration of the Includes beautiful four-color images from the 75th Anniversary Art Show • 50th anniversary of the Rudolf Steiner School. Now, twenty-five years later in 2003 the school celebrates its seventy-fifth year as well as seventy-five years of Waldorf education in North America. This new edition of Educating as an Art commemorates the work of those faculty members, and includes contributions of a new generation of teachers. Articles include: The Seed of Science; The True Meaning of Discipline; The Windows of the Lower School; The Class Teacher; Fairy Tales in the First Grade; Introduction to Numbers; Why Do We Teach the Norse Myths; Watercolor Painting in the Lower School; The Winged Horse: An Essay on the Art of Reading; Speach and Poetry in the Lower School; The Importance of Handwork in the Waldorf School; The Music Curriculum; Eurythmy; History Teaching—Dramatic Art; High School Physics and Chemistry; About Crafts; Appreciative Thinking; The Schooling of Imagination through Literature and Composition; The High School Visual Arts Program; Chaos Theory: Description, Not Prediction; Communications Technology in the Waldorf High School; Morality and the Teaching of Literature in the High School; and the Art of Thinking. *requires extra postage, not reflected in the shipping fees at checkout time
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