Table of Contents

1. Introduction: ways of knowing children 2.Looking inside the kindergarten: the apple press 3. Mixed age structure, the family model and the developing child 4.How the Steiner kindergarten environment helps adults and children to get to know each other 5. Imagination in Steiner early years: practices and potential purposes 6. Doing is learning: the domestic arts and artistic activities 7. Carolyn’s voice 8. The work of the teacher: key themes and absences 8. Reading the book of the child: the Steiner teacher’s inner work and its relationship to child observation 9."Hello, Billy the gnome!" When life is not weighed or scored

About the Author

Rod Parker-Rees is Coordinator of Early Childhood Studies at the University of Plymouth, UK.