Rhythm of life
Rhythm creates health
Rhythms are of great importance for the healthy development of the human being, for their mental wellbeing and their cognitive performance. Whereas the importance of rhythms in education and medicine tended to be underestimated in the past, they are now coming to the fore again, especially in the age of coronavirus. [more]
Rhythm of life
Teaching is rhythm
The young Romanian writer Lavinia Braniste describes her experience of lockdown in her story “Corona has aged us all”. We are living in “a nebulous, confusing time” that no longer supports and sustains us, which is immobile and uniform, in which everything has become indistinct. Many doctors report that there have never been so many patients who have forgotten their appointments as they have lost their sense of time. [more]
Publisher's View, Rhythm of life
Brand and quality
Since the early 1980s, Waldorf has been a registered trademark. Trademarks have a strong brand recognition value and consistent quality, the latter especially when they are located in the premium sector. [more]
Spotlight, Rhythm of life
I in the digital sphere?
I encounter a fellow human being. I perceive them as an other, a foreign self, but also equally as a being endowed with a self as much I am. This elementary perception of the foreign I happens instantly and goes beyond gestures, sounds, words, images and thoughts. Without this happening, an encounter would not be human in the true sense of the word. [more]
Series, Rhythm of life
Confronting the capacity for polarisation. The courage for transformation in middle school
When young people in middle school break free from the “gold background” of childhood and undergo strong transformations in their soul, they also challenge their teachers to transform themselves. The unfolding of the personal feeling life in the transition to adolescence also includes the increasing ability to polarise. [more]
Column, Rhythm of life
A revolutionary heart
Henning Köhler died on Thursday, 8 April 2021. Since October 2009, he delivered his succinct and trenchant texts for the “Kolumne K” column month after month – which annoyed some readers and were missed by others when he had to take a few months off due to illness. [more]
Media, Rhythm of life
Stuttgart pioneers
To say it from the outset: this work is based on a deeply and thoroughly researched and understood remembrance in the spirit. And it has another a special merit. [more]
Editorial
Beyond the crisis
Among the adults, parents and teachers at Waldorf schools, the spectrum of attitudes and opinions on the pandemic measures is as diverse as it is in wider society. If this were not so, we would be living in an educational bubble and not in reality. [more]
Teamwork
Relationships above subjects. New forms of cooperation
This article draws on experiences of the first lockdown and shows a possible form of cooperation between teaching staff that has already been successfully implemented in several schools. [more]
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