Series, Sources of health
Calm in the maelstrom
Many feet scuffling, many hands rustling, many mouths chattering – there is always something going on in a class. So how can the children learn anything at all? We need quiet and activity. The class teacher, with their close connection to the pupils, has a number of things they can do. [more]
Editorial
Free spaces
We start 2021 with somewhat mixed feelings. What did we wish for at New Year? What did we resolve to do? Will the New Year bring the longed-for return to normality, as it once was in 2019? What of our wishes goes beyond that? [more]
Publisher's View, Birth and Spirit
The hamster wheel at rest
For centuries, life in our latitudes was shaped by the recurring change of the four seasons. [more]
Series, Birth and Spirit
“Parent work” – from the class teacher’s perspective
What actually is “parent work”? How does it become apparent and what role does the teacher play in it? An overview of this essential task is given by a class teacher of 20 years’ standing. [more]
Editorial
Between appearance and reality
We were sitting at our evening meal. A time to talk about what occupied us during the day. [more]
Publisher's View, It sings and sounds
Freedom not arbitrariness
Let’s talk about freedom. There is a wonderful picture we often used in 2019 – remember that year? – to explain Waldorf 100: three Pakistani boys are balancing in their school uniforms on what remains of an emergency bridge over the brown waters of a wide and fast-flowing river which separates their village from their school. What is so compelling that they are willing to make this risky crossing twice a day? [more]
Editorial
Actually ...
... what we imagined the life of a Waldorf school to be like and what we experienced in pre-Corona times no longer happens – despite all the imaginative education we might feel called upon to develop: the risk-free personal encounter, the exchange between people without fear, the bubbly togetherness. [more]
Publisher's View, Interculturality
Vaccine against distrust
A virus is on the loose! Without a vaccine it makes us ill, us and our democratic culture. Its name: distrust. The USA is currently showing us how its would-be emperor with his permanent effusion of hate and resentment is quite cleverly hiding from us how naked he really is. [more]
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