This is a combined edition of two resources that came into being just before and after the international gathering of Waldorf early childhood educators in Dornach, Switzerland in 2005.On the Play of the Child was compiled by Freya Jaffke from the works of Rudolf Steiner to serve as study material for the conference. To this new edition five lectures from the 2005 conference have been added, on the theme of Playing, Learning, Meeting the Other.