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Genesis of a Waldorf
High School
In 1995 a conference was held. High
school educators from all over North
America gathered in Minneapolis to
discuss everything they could think
of that needed consideration when
contemplating
the formation of a Waldorf High School.
The results of this broad and exhaustive
look at how a Waldorf high school
works, meets the needs of adolescents,
and
fits into its community is Genesis
of a Waldorf High School - 239
pages of information both practical
and deep.
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Study
Is Hard work
Acquiring and Keeping
Study Skills through
a Lifetime
William A. Armstrong
Softbound
This is one book I
truly wish I had had
when I was in high
school and college.
Although I managed
to develop a method
of study that proved
effective, if I had
been able to read this
book first, I would
have faced the task
of studying with a
confidence and surefootedness
that I entirely lacked.
Years of uncertainty
and anxiety might have
been transformed had
I known then what Armstrong
lays out so completely
and clearly.
Study Is Hard
Work was published
too late for me to
use, but not too
late for today's
high school and college
students. It is already
required reading
in numerous prep
schools, and hailed
by college educators
as fostering the
best kind of academic
success -- that founded
on a love of learning
and an ability to
work hard and thoroughly.
I can't recommend
this book highly enough.
It is a truly great
tool.
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Adolescence
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Adolescence
The Sacred Passage
Inspired by the Legend of Parzival
Betty Staley
Softbound
$24.95
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This is a beautiful book. Betty Staley pierces through the discord and tumult of adolescence
to see what is truly there: the birth pangs of the human spirit. I love it that she uses the
legend of Parzival as a guiding light with which we may all see the beauty, even the terrible
beauty, of the adolescents struggle to fight through the crashing world of desire until their
own goodness emerges full in the world.
That this struggle is as real as those fought on any battlefield, and as filled with peril
as it is with hope is never sidestepped. How we as adults respond to these teenagers (whose struggles
are often very off-putting from the outside) is nothing less than a sacred task.
The community of adults in a high school environment is a community of trust in which we need
to foster hope, belief in positive change, and commitment to serve the highest good. This is
our charge and we must never forget it. We have the responsibility to believe in the capacity
for change, for maturing, for transformation in every young person we serve. When these qualities
live in the souls of the adults in a high school community, adolescents can thrive, can meet
their own dark night of the soul and come through it into the light.
- Betty Staley
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Parsifal
a play in twelve pictures taken from the texts of Wolfram von Eschenbach and Chrétien
de Troyes
Russell Pooler
For performance by adolescents - with or without eurythmy
Softbound
$8.95
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In this work, Russ Pooler has allowed von Eschenbach's Parzival to
cross centuries and appear in a new form. For the teacher and parent, watching this performance
can transform our thoughts and feelings toward adolescents, helping us become more truly their
friends and companions who, out of a generousity of heart, help them realise their true importance
within the world.
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Loving
the Stranger
Studies in Adolescence, Empathy and
the Human Heart
Contributions by Dr. Lotte Sahlmann,
Dr. Thomas J. Weihs, Anke Weihs, Birgit
Hansen, Angelika Monteux, Michael Schmundt,
Michael Luxford
compiled and edited by
Michael Luxford
Softbound
$19.95
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We must come to understand that our
love can also hurt another person.
There is no assurance that because
we have good will we can only bring
about pleasure. This is a childish
idea. To the extent to which we have
learned to cope with this discrepancy
in ourselves, thus far can we extend
empathy to others and also help them
to cope as well.
- Dr. Thomas J. Weihs
Weihs' thoughts on love
remind us in a poignant way that if we
are to help young people along their
journey from childhood to adulthood,
then we must offer them the empathy and
understand we can develop from an honest
assessment of ourselves.
Loving the Stranger is
a collection of talks and essays by doctors
and teachers who have been involved with
Youth Guidance as part of the work of
the Camphill Movement. They are warm,
deep and wide-ranging in content and
challenge us to examine new ideas and
adopt new approaches in our relationships
with young people, many of whom may find
themselves in difficulties during their
journey through adolescence.
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Education for Adolescents
Rudolf Steiner
Translated by Carl Hoffman
$19.95
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Dr. Steiner's insights into the world of the teenager can
inspire an enthusiasm for working with adolescents that develops
into a quite new, powerful love for them. This love is the
precondition for the positive relationship between adults
and adolescents necessary if the teenager is to find his
or her way to a healthy, responsive adulthood.
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Rudolf Steiner's
Observations on Adolescence
The Third Phase of Human Development
Edited by David Mitchell and Christopher Clouder
Softbound
$16.00
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This book is a collection of comments and writings that Rudolf
Steiner made about adolescence. Here in one volume is practically every
significant comment or observation of Rudolf Steiner about adolescence
ever recorded. Especially valuable now that Education for Adolescence
seems to be destined to remain out of print indefinitely.
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Between Form and Freedom
Betty Staley
$19.95
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Pass this book around the family - then stand back for some
wonderful results! The strongest endorsement for Between
Form and Freedom is that not only have thousands of parents
found it helpful, but thousands of teenagers have, too! For
parents, Betty Staley's insights shed a much welcomed light
on the many perplexing aspects of raising teenagers. For teens,
the light shines not only as an awakening self-awareness,
but as an aid for understanding their parents!
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Adolescence: The
Search for the Self
and
Weaving the Social Fabric of the
Class
Two Lectures on Waldorf Education
Eugene Schwartz
Softbound
$15.50
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The first lecture develps a threefold picture of adolescence
and offers helpful suggestions for parents and teachers. I especially
appreciates Schwartz's depiction of the often agonizing emotional passage
that is the hallmark of adolescence - and how that passage can be unseen
by we adults.
The second lecture offers wonderful insights and advice
to teachers as to how to help the students in a class see
each other with kindness and how to foster a willingness
to work together. Schwartz focuses on how the temperments
can be brought into play toward this end.
These two lectures are gems!
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Thirteen to Nineteen
Discovering the Light
Julian Sleigh
$10.95
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Julian Sleigh does not see adolescence as a temporary struggle
for freedom, but as a passage into life where freedom becomes
a possibility even as the options of adulthood narrow one's
choices. Preserving this awareness while helping guide the
teenager through the rocky shoals and narrow channels leading
to vigorous adult is the task of parents, teachers, and adult
friends. Thirteen to Nineteen can help all of us become
more effective and more at home in this work.
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Hathor the Moon Cow
Sex Education - A Creative Approach
Alan Whitehead
$18.95
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I think this journey into human sexuality - and how to convey
its physical, social and spiritual realities and outcomes
to children (beginning at around age 12 for direct teaching)
is one of the most refreshing approaches I've ever read.
In the author's
usual humorous and relaxed style, virtually every topic of
importance is touched upon - actually, delved into far
beyond
the surface - in a way that is open, engaging and utterly
unabashed. I can imagine this one volume being of enormous
help to both teachers and parents as they guide children
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