Books By Elan Leibner
Steiner's Lectures to the first Waldorf Teachers: Summaries
This collection covers most of Rudolf Steiner’s lectures to the teachers at the first Waldorf School in Stuttgart from 1919-1923.
These detailed summaries will be a great help to anyone wanting to study this challenging material. They condense the text into the essential thread of each lecture, providing a refresher of the content to those who have studied these lecture before, and an outline of what is contained in them for those about to engage with the original texts for the first time.
Elan Leibner has been a Waldorf grade school teacher and adult educator for over three decades. He has been the chairperson of the Pedagogical Section Council of North America since 2012 and has lectured and led workshops throughout North America and in Europe, Japan, Mexico, and Israel. At present (2022) he lives with his wife and two dogs in an RV, traveling across the continent in search of natural beauty and interest in the spiritual dimension of education.
see the child, love the child, know yourself: now teach
“Inspiration and vision about teaching and raising children are in the pages of this book of essays. Elan Leibner writes from his years of experience as a class teacher at the Waldorf School of Princeton and the Kimberton Waldorf School, from his years as editor of the Research Bulletin, and as chair of the Pedagogical Section Council of North America. This marvelous confluence of skill and insight makes for a rich and rewarding result in a single book! Ideas about how to create a community of teachers through creative study; how to inspire innovation without destroying what is best about the present, but reaching to the future; how to develop skill in child observation as the primary “teacher development” tool for all teachers, are among the powerful topics addressed in an accessible way. This book is a “must read” for all teachers, especially those in Waldorf schools, but teachers in all schools and the home.”
Waldorf Publications