Prof. Dr. phil. Rüdiger Grimm

2009 // Professor of Theories and Methods of Special Needs Education at Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences

1995-2017 // Secretary of the International Conference for Curative Education and Social Therapy, Medical Section, Goetheanum Dornach

1988-1995 // Director of the Camphill School Community Brachenreuthe, Überlingen

Work as a teacher, residential home director, and musician in special needs education institutions

Doctorate at Martin Luther University Halle

Diploma in Educational Science at Reutlingen University of Education / University of Tübingen

Studies in General Education and Special Education at the Universities of Education in Weingarten and Reutlingen

Waldorf Teacher Training Seminar Stuttgart

Training as a curative education assistant at the Camphill Seminar Überlingen

* 1952

Monographs

With Volker Frielingsdorf and Brigitte Kaldenberg (2013): History of Anthroposophic Curative Education and Social Therapy. Oberhausen, Dornach: Verlag am Goetheanum; ATHENA-Verlag (Edition Anthropos, 4).

(1995): Perspectives of the Therapeutic Community in Special Needs Education. A Place of Shared Development. Univ., Diss.–Halle, 1994. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt.

(1991): The Therapeutic Community in Special Needs Education. The Cooperation of Parents and Special Needs Educators. Stuttgart: Verlag Freies Geistesleben (Praxis Anthroposophie, 3).

Editorship

With Götz Kaschubowski (2008): Compendium of Anthroposophic Curative Education. With 16 illustrations and 8 tables. Munich: Reinhardt.

With Maximilian Buchka and Ferdinand Klein (eds.) (2002): Biographical Portraits of Important Female and Male Special Needs Educators in the 20th Century. 2nd ed. Munich: Reinhardt.

(1998): Self-Development of the Educator in Fields of Special Needs Education. The Idea of Self-Education in H. Nohl, P. Moor, J. Muth, J. Korczak and R. Steiner. Lucerne: Ed. SZH/SPC (Dornach Series, ed. by Rüdiger Grimm, Volume 2).

(1998): Self-Development of the Educator in Fields of Special Needs Education. The Idea of Self-Education in H. Nohl, P. Moor, J. Muth, J. Korczak and R. Steiner. Lucerne: Ed. SZH/SPC (Dornach Series, ed. by Rüdiger Grimm, Volume 2).

Contributions to edited volumes and journals

(2016): Self-Development and Everyday Practice in Special Needs Education. Meditative Elements in Rudolf Steiner’s “Curative Education Course.” In: Michaela Glöckler (ed.): Meditation in Anthroposophic Medicine. A Practical Guide for Doctors, Therapists, Caregivers, and Patients. 1st edition. Berlin: Salumed Verlag, pp. 87–101.

(2016): The “I” in Body and World. Aspects of Its Development. In: Seelenpflege in Heilpädagogik und Sozialtherapie 35 (3/4).

(2015): Epilepsy around 1924. A Historical Study on the Context of Rudolf Steiner’s “Curative Education Course.” In: Seelenpflege in Heilpädagogik und Sozialtherapie 34 (4), pp. 18–46.

(2013): Inclusion and Educational Practice. The Importance of Relationship Building for Successful Education and Special Needs Education. In: Thomas Stöckli (ed.): The Anthroposophic Social Impulse. Solothurn and Zurich, pp. 37–46.

(2013): “Child Hysteria.” A Historical Study on Rudolf Steiner’s “Curative Education Course.” In: Seelenpflege in Heilpädagogik und Sozialtherapie 33 (4), pp. 39–58.

(2011): The Polar Approach in Rudolf Steiner’s Special Needs Education. On the Interpretive History of the “Curative Education Course” with Regard to Lectures Three to Five. In: Seelenpflege in Heilpädagogik und Sozialtherapie 31 (3), pp. 40–61.