Recommended Reading – Education & Culture

Education – Waldorf

  • You Are Your Child’s First Teacher by Rahima Baldwin
  • Beyond the Rainbow Bridge: Nurturing our children from birth to seven by Barbara J. Patterson and Pamela Bradley
  • Waldorf Education – A Family Guide edited by Pamela Johnson Fenner and Karen Rivers
  • Waldorf Early Childhood Education – Emerson Waldorf School publication by Nancy Willson & Olga Wierbacki
  • The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning & Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim
  • Teaching as a Lively Art by Marjorie Spock
  • Confessions of a Waldorf Parent by M. Gorman
  • Learning to Learn: Interviews with Graduates of Waldorf Schools by AWSNA
  • School As a Journey: The Eight-Year Odyssey of a Waldorf Teacher and His Class by Torin Finser
  • The Education of the Child by Rudolf Steiner
  • An Outline for a Renewal of Waldorf Education: Rudolf Steiner’s Method of Heart-Thinking and Its Central Role in the Waldorf School by Mark-Dominick Riccio

Education – General

  • Endangered Minds: Why Children Don’t Think and What we Can Do About It by Jane Healy
  • The End of Education by Neil Postman
  • Miseducation: Preschoolers at Risk by David Elkind
  • Killing the Spirit: Higher Education in America by Page Smith

Culture

  • Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood by Susan Linn
  • The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon by David Elkind
  • All Grown Up & No Place To Go: Teenagers in Crisis by David Elkind
  • The Disappearance of Childhood by Neil Postman
  • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
  • Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher, Ph.D.
  • Evolution’s End: Claiming the Potential of Our Intelligence by J.C. Pearce
  • The Biology of Transcendance: A Blueprint of the Human Spirit by J.C. Pearce
  • A is for Ox : The Collapse of Literacy and the Rise of Violence in an Electronic Age by Barry Sanders