Encountering the Self: Transformation & Destiny in the Ninth Year

It is between the ages of nine and ten that children begin to experience themselves as "I" for the first time―as separate individuals, different from their parents and peers and essentially alone. This inner experience is sometimes precipitated by the child's first encounter with death and the first notion that earthly life is fragile and temporary.

In this insightful book, Koepke offers the reader a lucid, accessible description of the outer signs and symptoms of this significant turning point in every child's life.

• Out of the Garden and into the Desert: The Nine-Year Change Through the Stories of the Third Grade Curriculum
• I Am Different from You: How Children Experience Themselves and the World in the Middle of Childhood
• Your Nine Year Old: Thoughtful and Mysterious
• And There Was Light
• Spelling by Hand: Teaching Spelling in a Waldorf School, a Guide for Class Teachers
• Painting and Drawing in Waldorf Schools: Classes 1 to 8
• Authentic Parenting: A Four-Temperaments Guide to Your Child and Yourself
• Towards Creative Teaching: Notes to an Evolving Curriculum for Steiner Waldorf Class Teachers
• The Seven-Year-Old Wonder Book
• How to Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation (Classics in Anthroposophy)