Magic of beginning
The magic of the beginning
Parents whose children are starting school this year needed a bit more imagination than usual in recent months when they attempted to picture schooling at a Waldorf school. The thought of the magic of the first day at school did not quite fit with schools covered in direction signs and floor markings. The enveloping atmosphere on entering a Waldorf school gave out a scent of disinfectant rather than wood and wool in recent weeks. [more]
Magic of beginning
From Monte Azul to Erftstadt
When I set foot in the Erftstadt Free Waldorf School about eight years ago, I did not yet know that my life would fundamentally change – after twelve years of secondary school without any contact with Waldorf education and at the beginning of training as a primary school teacher. [more]
Magic of beginning
Untapped freedoms. School experiences from the perspective of teachers and parents
It is almost twenty-nine years ago that I first stood in front of a Waldorf school class, or at least half of one. Monday afternoon, 2pm, the time of greatest digestive activity, in the pizza box-lined room of class 10. German lesson. [more]
Magic of beginning
Why teachers need parents
The relationship between parents and teachers changes in the course of a child’s time in school. In a certain sense the closeness and distance of the parents to and from the teachers reflect the connection of the parents with their child and also their attempt to exercise some influence. The view of parents of the teachers is shaped by the child who at home talks about what they have done and who lets their parents partake in their experiences at school through their eyes, ears and understanding of events at school. [more]
Living Teachers, Magic of beginning
Pär Play – learning intuitively and playfully from life
Teachers who practice Intuitive Pedagogy know the extent to which it trains the ability to form educational relationships and inner flexibility. The Nuremberg Teacher Training Seminar includes in its training provision a one-week course on Intuitive Pedagogy in the Easter holidays which is also open to colleagues from other Waldorf schools. Course leader Dieter Schwartz, a pupil of Pär Ahlbom and Iris Johansson, explains his approach. [more]
Spotlight, Magic of beginning
About coronavirus
The transformation of our lifeworld through human beings and the retroactive effect on humans. [more]
Adolescence – Know yourself!
The I awakening. Youth motifs in Waldorf education
Youth as a phase of life with a separate and positive meaning has only been referred to in the last hundred years or so, that is since the time in which Rudolf Steiner also published initial ideas about the anthropology of and education in adolescence. [more]
Adolescence – Know yourself!
A committed affair with here and now – young people and teaching
Under the title “Is school too stupid for our children?” the publisher and education expert of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper, Jürgen Kaube, published a number of provocative hypotheses in June 2019. [more]
Adolescence – Know yourself!
The future lies in the hands of young people
That being young should be the subject of an academic discipline, an independent field of learning and research, was comprehensible only to a few people at the beginning when Rudolf Steiner brought the “Section for the Spiritual Striving of Youth” into being as a department of the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum in Dornach. [more]
Adolescence – Know yourself!
The initiation of young people. A little known task in Rudolf Steiner’s art of education
The night from 10 to 11 January 1881 was a bitterly cold Vienna winter’s night. Rudolf Steiner remained up late, sat in his room, reflected on a number of philosophical questions and then turned back to a concern which had occupied him for the whole of his life: self-knowledge and self-experience. He had read the following in the philosopher Schelling: “In all of us there is a secret, wonderful ability to withdraw from the change of time into our innermost (...) self and there (...) look at the eternal in us.” [more]
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