Recommended Reading

Introduction to Waldorf Education:

  • Waldorf Education: A Family Guide – Edited by Pamela Johnson Fenner and Karen L. Rivers
  • Understanding Waldorf Education: Teaching from the Inside Out – Jack Petrash
  • Waldorf Parenting Handbook – Lois Cusick

Early Childhood/Parenting:

  • You Are Your Child’s First Teacher – Rahima Baldwin
  • Heaven on Earth: A Handbook for Parents of Young Children – Sharifa Oppenheimer
  • Children at Play – Heidi Britz-Credelius
  • Beyond the Rainbow Bridge: Nurturing our children from birth to seven – Barbara J. Patterson and Pamela Bradley
  • Better Late Than Early and School Can Wait – Raymond and Dorothy Moore
  • The Hurried Child and Preschoolers at Risk – David Elkind
  • Children Without Childhood – Marie Winn
  • The Magical Child – Joseph Chilton Pearce
  • Your Brain on Childhood: The Unexpected Side Effects of Classrooms, Ballparks, Family Rooms, and the Minivan – Gabrielle Principe

Childhood Development and Pedagogy:

  • Teaching as a Lively Art – Marjorie Spock
  • School as a Journey: The Eight-Year Odyssey of a Waldorf Teacher and His Class – Torin M. Finser
  • The Recovery of Man in Childhood & The Way of a Child – A.C. Harwood

Computers and Media:

  • Endangered Minds: Why Children Don’t Think and What We Can Do About It – Jane Healy
  • Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children’s Minds – Jane Healy
  • The Flickering Mind: The False Promise of Technology in the Classroom and How Learning Can Be Saved – Todd Oppenheimer
  • Who’s Bringing Them Up? – Martin Large
  • Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television – Jerry Mander

Family Traditions:

  • Lifeways: Working with Family Questions – Goodrun Davy and Bons Voors
  • Festivals, Family and Food – Diana Carey and Judy Large
  • All Year Round – Ann Druitt, Christine Fynes-Clinton and Marije Rowling