Imagination and technology
Imagination and technology are two elemental forces which clash in the modern world in an unprecedented way. The cultural philosopher Martin Spura shows what happens when the world of the imagination is coupled with technology. [more]
Images grow and change. The development of the quality of images in childhood and youth
Images are created in the life of the human imagination. They vary in character and are as much connected with personal and individual prerequisites as with the characteristics of general human development. [more]
Early childhood
The media and small children - or where we can find the musicians in the radio
We all know that television makes you stupid – particularly children do. But we do not take our knowledge seriously. Television is part of every-day life. “Just a bit won’t matter,” many parents tell themselves. You can’t be serious, says Waldorf child care worker Philipp Gelitz. [more]
Publisher's View
Who owns the Waldorf school?
We have lived with the tradition that schools are a public task for such a long time in Germany that we forget that we are the public: the state has considered public life to be its property since absolutism spread across large parts of Europe in the eighteenth century, and thus it sees itself as being entitled to manage the school system. [more]
Spotlight
Waldorf education in Silicon Valley
At the end of October 2011, an article appeared on the front page of the New York Times about a Waldorf school in Silicon Valley, the Californian centre of the software and computer industry, which provoked a major response in the American media landscape. The school has many parents who work in high-tech industry. What makes it different is that it refuses to use precisely those technologies with which the parents earn their money. The parents think that is a good thing. Erziehungskunst spoke with David Mitchell from the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America about the reasons for this strong response. [more]
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