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Waldorf Education Resources
Series
The Age of Discovery
Paperback
June 2004
9780863154515
More details
- Publisher
Floris Books - Published
1st June 2004 - ISBN 9780863154515
- Language English
- Pages 272 pp.
$20.00
This volume in the Waldorf Education Resources Series offers an engaging introduction to world history for use by Steiner-Waldorf teachers.
The author presents an overview of world history from the time of the Crusades to the Renaissance. Subjects include Saladin, Joan of Arc, Columbus, Magellan, Queen Elizabeth, and Sir Francis Drake. Kovacs’ extensive lesson notes have proven to be useful and inspiring resource materials for many teachers.
Here is a valuable textbook for anyone involved in Waldorf teaching or home schooling.
'Another excellent overview of world history, compiled from Charles Kovacs' copious lesson notes. Throughout, Kovacs is keen to convey to the reader the notion of cause and effect and the inter-relatedness of world events. Any teacher of the 12-13 age group will find this book an excellent resource.'
Rosemary Usselman, New View, Autumn 2004
Charles Kovacs
Charles Kovacs (1907–2001) was born in Vienna, Austria. He left in 1938 and joined the British Army in East Africa. After the War he settled in Britain, and in 1956 he took over a class at the Rudolf Steiner School in Edinburgh, where he remained a class teacher until his retirement in 1976. He died in 2001. His extensive lesson notes have been a useful and inspiring resource material for many teachers; he also gave over 300 lectures to adults and was in demand as a speaker. He is the author of numerous books for Waldorf teaching, as well as The Spiritual Background to Christian Festivals and The Apocalypse in Rudolf Steiner's Lecture Series.