The Age of Discovery Charles Kovacs ISBN: 0863154514 Book (Paperback) Floris Books, Waldorf Education Resources Series $20.00 272 pages August 2004

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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. Charles Kovacs was born in Austria. He left his native country in 1938 at the time of the Anschluss 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 is the author of Parsifal and the Search for the Grail (2002); Ancient Greece (2003); The Age of Revolution (2003); and Ancient Rome (2005).       See all titles by this author

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