Making good schools better
Courage for quality!
Working with the quality initiative of the German Association of Waldorf Schools. [more]
Making good schools better
Educational quality development in Waldorf schools
Every child, every young person carries their own experiences and abilities within them and looks for people, places and opportunities to practise, develop, nurture, discover and perfect them. Waldorf education offers itself as a development aid for this. [more]
Making good schools better
Time for media parents' evenings?
For many years, Waldorf schools have been dealing with the question of what exactly is meant by "media literacy", how it comes about and what can and should be done for it in school. Existing beliefs about the necessary maturity and the real, increasingly everyday use of digital technology for homework and the like are increasingly diverging, leaving room for uncertainty and the uncomfortable need to avoid telling the teacher the truth about actual media consumption at home. [more]
Self-administration at Waldorf schools
Rudolf Steiner and self-governance at the first Waldorf school
At the end of 1918, a small initiative group of Stuttgart entrepreneurs led by Emil Molt decided to launch a campaign for social renewal. It met with Rudolf Steiner in Dornach at the end of January 1919 to prepare a concept for the project. [more]
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No day like another – chief executive of a Waldorf School
Waldorf schools are like small or medium-sized businesses. Everything, from teaching to bookkeeping and balance sheets, from building maintenance to waste disposal, has to be managed. The management is responsible for providing a suitable infrastructure so that the educational operation can run smoothly. Meeting the needs of the school community is its challenging and varied, but also exciting task. [more]
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The power of images and the Waldorf Peace Network
War in Europe. This was unimaginable for most of us until Russia's attack on Ukraine. Just as the war of aggression in Europe has shaken us adults, it has also made the pupils, children and young people pause in their everyday lives. [more]
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What to do in the face of this unbelievable aggression?
Around 5,000 Waldorf upper school pupils in digital conversation with experts on the war in Ukraine. [more]
Waldorf & Science
Calm down! Interview with Harald Lesch
Harald Lesch, born 1960, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, lecturer in natural philosophy at the Munich School of Philosophy. TV presenter for programmes such as "alpha Centauri", "Leschs Kosmos" or the Youtube channel "Terra X Lesch & Co". Knowledge transfer and education are particularly important to him. Since 2018, he has been patron of the Weimar Children's University. [more]
Waldorf & Science
Anthroposophy under fire
One feature that is characteristic of coronavirus and its time is the fissures, rifts and divisions that run through the various groups in society. [more]
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