Carol Ann Bärtges - Nick Lyons - Educating as an art
Essays on Waldorf Education. Revised edition, celebrating seventy-five years of Waldorf education in North America.
Carol Ann Bärtges is a dedicated Waldorf educator who graduated from the Rudolf Steiner School in New York and later returned as a teacher. She has taught high school literature and drama, served as class teacher, and held various leadership roles, including college guidance and upper school chair.
She is best known as co-editor of the book Educating as an Art: Essays on Waldorf Education (2003), a collection celebrating 75 years of Waldorf education in North America.
The book presents education as a true artistic process rather than mere instruction. It emphasizes the holistic development of the child - body, soul, and spirit - through a rich, imaginative curriculum that integrates arts, storytelling, music, drama, handwork, and movement.Key themes include the teacher as an artist who nurtures wonder and creativity, the spiral curriculum that follows the child’s natural development, and the balance of head, heart, and hands.Bärtges’ work highlights how Waldorf education cultivates free, creative, and morally grounded individuals ready to meet the challenges of the modern world.
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