Description
Contents:
- Introduction by Susan Howard
- Educational Foundations and Objectives
- Focusing on the individuality
- Development through metamorphosis
- Salutogenesis and Waldorf education
- The special nature of learning in early childhood
- Supporting Development in Early Childhood
- Conception, pregnancy and birth
- The first year: achieving uprightness and learning to walk
- The second year: learning to speak
- The third year: I-awareness and thinking awaken
- The child’s invisible helpers
- Early Childhood Education and Care
- Establishing the relationship – the foundation of early childhood care
- Free movement and independent play
- The environment
- Rhythm and rituals
- Conditions for Infant and Toddler Child Care
- The impulse behind Waldorf early childhood education
- Standards of care for children under the age of three
- Basic and advanced training
- Rooms, furnishings and equipment
- Legal and financial aspects
- Quality assurance and collegial work
- Working with the parents
- Waorking with physicians, therapists and early childhood development specialists
- Working with kindergarten and school
- Social integration
- Starting a birth-to-three program within an existing institution
- Appendix: Quality criteria for day care centers with children under the age of three
- English-language Resource List
- Bibliography from the German Edition
- About the authors
