The only real challenge is doing something for other people
Hans Hutzel from the Emil Molt Academy in Berlin and Peter Schneider from Alanus University in Alfter report on how job and school, learning and working in a business can be integrated. [more]
Creating prospects in Namibia
In Namibia more than a third of school leavers become unemployed. In order not to abandon them in this situation, the Windhoek Waldorf School has since 2013 offered its pupils vocational training alongside the general schooling. As a result its graduates obtain a dual qualification. It means that on successful completion they can choose either to go to university or move directly into a job or attend further training. [more]
Early childhood
Therapy with stories. How to wean children off pilfering things
Billy is a bright child. Recently things have started disappearing when he is around. Once, when Billy was ill, that stopped again. It quickly becomes clear that Billy steals. What to do? The admonition that stealing is bad has no effect. And yet this obvious step is not completely wrong. It just depends on the nature of the admonition. [more]
Living lessons
Reflections. Invitation on a journey of discovery in the curriculum of the Waldorf schools
The curriculum of the Waldorf schools goes back to suggestions from Rudolf Steiner. In the course of the decades it has been considerably extended and adapted to the current requirements. It is a composition which is attuned to the anthropological and developmental psychological needs of children and young people. Like in a musical score we can identify the developmental arcs, reflections, recapitulations and variations. [more]
Living Teachers
Johannes Matthiessen – artist of the earth. An obituary
Johannes Matthiessen was an artist through and through. He studied architecture, taught art in Waldorf schools, was a visual artist, social artist and an artist of the earth – but above all he was a person who lived and worked with incredible intensity. [more]
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