The Power of Images
Permanence in change
Class teacher Hiltrud Kamolz takes great pleasure in creating the seasonal table and incorporates the seasons daily in short narratives at the beginning of class in the form of a meaningful story. The story can be entirely focused on the seasonal happening in nature and sometimes also contains a little moral lesson in pictures. [more]
The Power of Images
The image in education
One of the fundamental features of Waldorf education is the work with images. Language can create images in people that remain powerful and unforgettable. Christoph Wiechert describes how parents and teachers can use them for successful education. [more]
The Power of Images
Archetypes of human existence in the course of the year
The cycle of festivals of the year not only reflects astronomical events such as the solstice or the equinox. Natural events evoke soul and spiritual experiences which are expressed through pictorial narratives. Religion and class teacher Stefan Grosse explores the educational significance of these narratives. [more]
The Power of Images
Images grow with you
Friederike Gläsener explains why pictorial teaching shapes the soul and stimulates its development. Images are mobile, alive, changeable, individual and never quite finished. They create meaning, which does not diminish with growing understanding of their significance but actually increases. [more]
The Power of Images
This side and the other side of the equator
The equator separates the northern from the southern hemisphere. At the same time, however, it also connects them with each other. What does it mean when images created in one culture are transferred to another? Do they connect or do they divide? [more]
Against the Right, Editorial
Waldorf schools: no place for Nazis!
Some people who are politically far to the right believe that Waldorf schools would be the right schools for their children. Or that they would be the right places where they could work unimpeded as people with right-wing convictions. [more]
Against the Right
It starts at home and at school. A Waldorf culture critical of racism
Next to the family, school is considered the most important place where right-wing extremism can first be prevented. What does it mean to really take responsibility, where is work urgently needed, and how can we together develop a Waldorf culture that is sensitive to bias? [more]
Against the Right
Building blocks for a diverse, anti-racist Waldorf education
How can anti-racism be anchored in the curriculum of Waldorf education so that pupils are sensitised to exclusion and defamation? In addition to generally making empathy part of education, the authors advocate, among other things, addressing racial theories that emerged in the age of the European Enlightenment. They suggest classes nine and twelve for this, when the great ideas of freedom, equality and solidarity are also addressed. [more]
Information Literacy
Information literacy as an educational task
Media education in Waldorf schools ideally begins on the first day of school. For the author thinks that the anthroposophical understanding of the human being and media education are not contradictory. In his opinion, age-appropriate teaching that gradually trains the individual power of judgement must be complemented by appropriate developmental support in feeling and volition. [more]
Information Literacy
We need the ethics of communication as a school subject!
Bernhard Pörksen, born in 1969, is professor of media studies at Tübingen University. In 2008 he was voted “Professor of the Year” and honoured for his teaching. He has researched and written about scandals, truth and lies, and communication as an art of living. Pörksen warns against the democracy-destroying way in which information flows have become polluted and pleads for a new educational campaign, which has to start with children. [more]
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