Edition Anthropos

Academic book series for scholarship on disabilities education and social care from anthroposophic perspectives
Founder and editor (2012-2016): Rüdiger Grimm Editor (from 2017): Jan Göschel
Published in cooperation by Verlag am Goetheanum & Athena Verlag

 

 

Jan Göschel; Rüdiger Grimm (Hg.)

«… ein fortwährender lebendiger Zusammenhang»
Contributions to Rudolf Steiner’s Curative Education Course

 

Anthropos Edition: Supportive education and social therapy from an anthroposophical perspective, edited by Rüdiger
Year of publication: 2024
Illustrations: with pictures
ISBN: 978-3-7235-1702-4

 

The book «… ein fortwährender lebendiger Zusammenhang» is the joint work of a group of authors who, against the background of the time when the course was created and in reflection on the present situation, explore the future perspectives that can be gained from Steiner’s explanations.

Johannes Kronenberg; Ioana Viscrianu; Ruth Fiona Roever

Zusammenleben wollen
A portrait of three social therapy communities: reality, development issues and aspects of participation

 

Anthropos Edition: Supportive education and social therapy from an anthroposophical perspective, edited by Rüdiger
Year of publication: 2023
ISBN: 978-3-7235-1743-7

 

The intention of an inclusive way of life is to want to live together. Researchers from the Youth Section of the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum have been studying three inclusive communities in Germany for a long time with this intention in mind.
In regular exchanges between the research team and representatives of the three communities, the following research topics emerged:
1. to explore the conditions of the social environment as a reality of life within communities and to make them communicable,
2. to elaborate the developmental issues and impulses contained therein, and
3. to sketch out the first attempt at a broader understanding of inclusion and self-determination in the context of anthroposophical communities, based on an overview and in-depth study of the forms of communal living that have been found.
The project documented in this volume explores the central themes of participation and inclusion in the contemporary issues of social change, social justice, and a jointly shaped human future.

Pim Blomaard

Beziehungsgestaltung in der Begleitung von Menschen mit Behinderungen
Aspects of professional ethics in supportive education and social therapy

 

Edition Anthropos: Supportive education and social therapy from an anthroposophical perspective, edited by Rüdiger Grimm, vol. 3
New edition – available again
ISBN: 978-3-89896-494-4

 

This book adopts the perspective of the professional carer who wants to shape their relationship with people with intellectual disabilities on the basis of equality and recognition. The dialogical principle is based on thinkers such as Buber, Steiner, Rogers, Mac Intyre and Haeberlin and is ethically evaluated with practitioners such as Gröschke, Theunissen, Köhn and Flosdorf. The author develops a virtue ethics that establishes disability care as a professional practice and presents exercises that caregivers can use to prove themselves in difficult situations. This is how a professional ethic is created that combines the image of humanity with the professional image. At the same time, the independent position of the person being cared for is taken into account, in that the carer contributes as a person and develops through the interaction. The asymmetrical relationship can thus be transformed into an equal one.

Bernhard Schmalenbach (Hg)

Dimensionen der Heilpädagogik
Development support, community building and inclusion | Festschrift for Rüdiger Grimm

 

Edition Anthropos: Supportive education and social therapy from an anthroposophical perspective, edited by Bernhard Schmalenbach, vol. 61.
Edition 2016
ISBN: 978-3-7235-1571-6

 

This volume brings together a wealth of contributions from a range of topics and fields of work in supportive education: practical suggestions, explorations of the history of supportive education, community building and inclusion – in a dialogue between theory and practice and from a range of perspectives, including those of anthroposophical supportive education and social therapy. In this commemorative publication dedicated to Rüdiger Grimm, 23 authors provide reports on their experiences and food for thought.

Bernhard Schmalenbach
unter
Collaboration with Sören Roters-Müller

 

Heilpädagogische Perspektiven auf das Alter
Suggestions for training and further education for people who work with people with disabilities

 

Edition Anthropos: Supportive education and social therapy from an anthroposophical perspective, edited by Rüdiger Grimm, vol. 51.
Edition 2016
ISBN 978-3-7235-1561-7 (Verlag am Goetheanum)
ISBN 978-3-89896-623-8 (ATHENA-Verlag)

 

Bernhard Schmalenbach’s supportive education perspectives focus on the need for professionally sound assessments of the knowledge and skills that employees of supportive education institutions should possess in order to provide appropriate support for older people with disabilities.

Volker Frielingsdorf; Rüdiger Grimm; Brigitte Kaldenberg

Die Geschichte der anthroposophischen Heilpädagogik und Sozialtherapie
Development lines and fields of endeavor 1920-1980

 

1st edition 2013
ISBN 978-3-7235-1478-8

 

The history of supportive education and social therapy is not just a way of developing a holistic method of supporting and caring for children, young people and adults from the spiritual-scientific view of humanity in anthroposophy. It is also part of the history of the profession in its difficult path through the 20th century and beyond, an initiative movement in which the development of anthroposophy is also expressed in its eventful history.

Jan Christopher Göschel

Der biografische Mythos als pädagogisches Leitbild
Transdisciplinary funding planning based on the children’s conference in anthroposophical supportive education

 

Edition Anthropos: Supportive education and social therapy from an anthroposophical perspective, edited by Rüdiger Grimm, vol. 11
2012 edition
ISBN: 978-3-89896-492-0

 

In response to the instrumental rationality of a positivist disability education, the author develops a transdisciplinary approach to supportive education that uses the guiding principle of individual biography as an integral principle of the child’s life. This “biographical myth” is used as a model for pedagogical and therapeutic action that is committed to the integrity of the developing biography. By incorporating elements of phenomenology, hermeneutics, narrative and image theory, as well as contemplative humanities, the author creates an epistemological and methodological basis, along with a guideline for the practical design of transdisciplinary funding planning processes in the context of supportive and special needs education.

Andreas Fischer

Zur Qualität der Beziehungsdienstleistung in Institutionen für Menschen mit Behinderungen
An empirical study in connection with the QM procedure “Ways to Quality”

 

Edition Anthropos: Supportive education and social therapy from an anthroposophical perspective, edited by Rüdiger Grimm, vol. 21.
2012 edition
ISBN: 978-3-89896-493-7

 

Heilpädagogik und Sozialtherapie gründen in ihrem eigentlichen Kern immer auf Beziehungen zwischen zwei Menschen. Diese Beziehungen beinhalten die Gefahr der Einseitigkeit, denn die Voraussetzungen der Beteiligten sind unterschiedlich. Der eine benötigt Hilfe und Unterstützung in der praktischen Lebensbewältigung, der andere versucht, ihm diese Unterstützung und Hilfe zu geben.
Der Autor untersucht die Frage nach einer adäquaten und dialogischen Beziehungsgestaltung, die den Menschen mit Unterstützungsbedarf größtmögliche Selbstbestimmung und Autonomie ermöglicht. Bezugspunkt ist dabei das anthroposophisch orientierte Menschen- und Weltverständnis. Gleichzeitig wird anhand einer breiten Befragung aufgezeigt, dass das Qualitätsmanagementverfahren »Wege zur Qualität« Hilfestellungen bietet, die Beziehungsarbeit so zu gestalten, dass sie den Bedürfnissen der Menschen mit Unterstützungsbedarf Rechnung trägt und gleichzeitig den innersten Anliegen anthroposophischer Heilpädagogik und Sozialtherapie entspricht.