The IASWECE “Birth to Three” Working Group has compiled the following collection of articles, quotations and research material to assist colleagues who would like to organize a conference or a training course on the theme of sleep:
A. Articles by Waldorf educators
- Toward Human Development: The Physiological Basis of Sleep – Lisa Gromicko
- Sleep as a Task of Waldorf Education – Peter Loebell
- Sleep – Helle Heckmann
- The Afternoon Program: Working on Inner Quiet and Other Benefits of This Work – Aniko Gereb
- Sleep and Warmth – Palm Hale
- A Waldorf Inspired View of Sleep – Part One and Part Two of an article from the blog: ‘The Parenting Passageway”
- The Importance of Sleep – Susan Johnson
- Gentling your Child into Sleep – Diana Marshall Mei
B. Articles by other authors
- New Study Reveals Alarming News About Toddlers Who Use Smartphones – Katina Beniaris, April 2017
- Nap-dependent Learning in Infants – Almut Hupbach, Rebecca L. Gomez, Richard R. Bootzing, Lynn Nadel (Department of Psychology, The University of Arizona, USA)
- Sleep Research Study Finds Daytime Naps Enhance Learning in Preschool Children – University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
- Napping Facilitates Word Learning in Early Lexical Development – Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Better Ways to Learn – Tara Parker – Pope (New York Times, October 2014)
- Naps Promote Abstraction in Language-Learning Infants – Rebecca L. Gomez, Richard R. Bootzin, and Lynn Nadel (University of Arizona)
- Children with regular bedtimes less likely to misbehave, research shows – Alexandra Topping (The Guardian, October 2013)
- Daytime Sleep and Parenting Interactions in Infants Born Preterm – A. J. Schwichtenberg, Thomas F. Anders, Melissa Vollbrecht, Julie Poehlmann
- Sleep and Attachment in Preterm Infants – A. J. Schwichtenberg, Prachi E.Shah, Julie Poehlmann
- Timely Sleep Facilitates Declarative Memory Consolidation in Infants – Sabine Seehagen, Carolin Konrad, Jane S. Herbert, and Silvia Schneider
- Sleep Helps Process Traumatic Experiences – University of Zürich
- Sleep, Learning and Memory – Robert Stickgold
- Study Finds Naps May Help Preschoolers Learn – Article Published in “Neuroscience”, February 9, 2017
- Sleep is the New Status Symbol – Article published in the New York Times, April 9, 2017
- The Purpose of Sleep? To Forget, Scientists Say – Article Published in the New York Times, February 2, 2017
- How To Sleep Better Without Spending any $ on Sleep Mediaction – Post on the Website NestMaven
C. Collection of Rudolf Steiner quotations
- Sleep – a Collection of Quotations from Rudolf Steiner, selected by the “IASWECE Birth to Three Working Group”
D. Texts in other languages
Portuguese:
- A Importância do Sono e a Pedagogia – Derblai R. Sebben
Russian:
- Влияние дневного сна на процесс раннего развития ребенка – М.Б.Коробицына, У.В.Варнава
- Сон и режим – Вера Герасимова
- О вреде раннего развития – А.В.Семенович
Spanish: