Series, Hands intelligence
"We would like to have grades so we know where we stand."
Do grade reports really help to find our position? [more]
Publisher's View, Hands intelligence
What do they mean: the free intellectual life or the fundamental right to freedom of expression?
When Rudolf Steiner introduced the ideas of the threefold social organism into the discussion on a new social order in 1917 – at the same time as the violent implementation of a new order in Russia – he took up the ideals of the French Revolution and specified them by assigning freedom, equality and fraternity to areas in which they each had a focus: liberty to intellectual life, equality to legal life and fraternity to economic life. [more]
Editorial
Commitment to freedom
One can have ideas even though they do not correspond to the facts. But one can also postulate something as a fact and form false ideas about it. For example, that there is no spiritual world. [more]
Editorial
Rethinking school
Professor Giovanni Maio, head of the Institute of Ethics and History of Medicine in Freiburg, recently spoke out clearly in an interview with the newspaper Badische Zeitung (23 September 2021) about the social exclusion of people who are not vaccinated, their worse position in health care and their financial disadvantage. [more]
Editorial
The child is the curriculum
Initially there was no Waldorf curriculum, only Rudolf Steiner’s suggestions. Caroline von Heydebrand summarised them for the first time in 1925, EA Karl Stockmeyer systematised them by subject in 1955. Several editions of the so-called Richter curriculum followed, which is still in constant development as a project today. The information and recommendations on the horizontal and vertical curriculum have grown over the decades into a book of over 700 pages. [more]
Editorial
An unconventional understanding of the human being
Anthroposophists and friends of Waldorf are not infrequently ridiculed by the public, or indeed viewed by critics to be “pre-Enlightenment cranks” because of their worldview. Some critics say that parents, who have come to know and appreciate Waldorf education because they have experienced in their children and in themselves that it is simply beneficial, should be protected from anthroposophical indoctrination. [more]
Editorial
Wherever your journey takes you
Holiday time – travel time. Some take their homes with them, others stay in standardised accommodation – only the scenery changes like the tropical wallpaper in the living room at home. And still others radically expose themselves to abroad, i.e. in the people they meet on the way or at the destination of their journey. [more]
Publisher's View
“Go forth my heart …”
“... and seek joy ...” - how the great hall shook when the school community sang this song on the last day before the summer holidays; full of anticipation for a time without the routine of school and full of curiosity for adventures near and far. Then, when I was home, on that day I literally let everything fall away from me. Threw my satchel into the corner – holidays at last! [more]
Publisher's View, Generations
Intense topics!?
There is currently a lot of tension in the air. More than usual. How do we experience it and deal with it in a constructive way? [more]
Series, Generations
A look into the mobile classroom
Since the “mobile classroom” was developed at the Bochum-Langendreer Waldorf School about 20 years ago, many Waldorf schools have taken up this form of teaching and implemented it in their own way. Thus you can now find the typical benches and seat cushions in many classes 1 and 2 nationwide. [more]
Bund der Freien Waldorfschulen e.V.