Who educates whom?
Fear, ambition and love in the classroom
When I was studying Waldorf education, I was smitten with an advertising poster that was hanging in the seminar building. It showed a picture of the young Rudolf Steiner which had the words above it in large letters: “There are only three educational tools: fear, ambition and love. We dispense with the first two …” [more]
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The clown in the teacher
Two freshly-baked teachers describe how theatre clowning during their teacher training was able to give them a taste of freedom – a freedom they seek each day anew as they stand in front of their class. [more]
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Tracks of the crocodile
Waldorf 100 anniversary conference “The first teachers’ course” at the Goetheanum. [more]
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With eurythmy and Chinese in Colombia
Walter Boris Liebenthal (1933–2011) left a rich literary and artistic legacy for the Chinese Waldorf school movement. [more]
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Misunderstanding
We’re all familiar with it, be it at home, in class or in the car: loud, arguing children, hitting and scratching one another, screaming and shouting as they climb over tables and benches, ignoring all instructions, and, to cap it all, answering back. [more]
Editorial, Threefoldness
Three things
Threefoldness is a structural principle of living things. No development would be possible without a third element, everything would rigidify in polarities. [more]
Threefoldness
Systemic threefolding and the question of body, soul and spirit
Human thinking, feeling and the will are mirrored in three different physiological processes. Rudolf Steiner first described this in 1917. But they are also related to the trinity of body, soul and spirit and the four so-called human constitutional elements. [more]
Living lessons, Threefoldness
Class trip with media fasting
For the past fourteen years, Hans-Wolfgang Roth from the Stade Free Waldorf School has undertaken an at least three-week long art trip with class 12. Over the years, there have been a lot of changes, both in the itinerary for the trip and in the behaviour and every-day habits of the pupils. One of the greatest changes concerns the use of media, particularly the communication media. They disrupt the “vision search with creative means”, so they are done without. [more]
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It could become one. A Waldorf school initiative in Marrakesh
At Easter 2019, Isabella Geier, teacher of French, history and social studies at the Augsburg Free Waldorf School, visited the small Waldorf school with daycare and a kindergarten in Marrakesh which was founded in September 2017. She gave two workshops for staff there and used the opportunity for a conversation with founder Sophie Dielissen. [more]
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