Education for Special Needs: Principles and Practice in Camphill Schools

Henning Hansmann

Publication Date:	01 May 1992
Availability:	Out of print

Education for Special Needs provides a unique introduction to Rudolf Steiner's ideas on the education of children with special needs, particularly as practised in the Camphill movement.

Curative education aims to treat children with intellectual and sensory handicaps or nervous and emotional disturbances, through predominantly pedagogical means. It draws on insights from psychiatry, paediatrics, psychology, sociology, education and the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner. This book looks at the underlying principles of Steiner's approach to education and at how the educational curriculum of the Waldorf schools is adapted for the special needs of the handicapped.

About the Author(s)

Henning Hansmann was principle of the Camhill Rudolf Steiner Schools in Aberdeen, Scotland, for many years.

Useful Things to Know

This book is Out of Print, but there is a replacement volume:
Holistic Special Education: Camphill Principles and Practice

Other books available on Camphill:
A Portrait of Camphill: From Founding Seed to Worldwide Movement edited by Jan Martin Bang
The Builders of Camphill: Lives and Destinies of the Founders edited by Friedwart Bock
The Lives of Camphill: An Anthology of the Pioneers
Discovering Camphill: New Perspectives, Research and Developments edited by Robin Jackson