Spotlight
Young people online
Twenty-first century lifeworlds between digitalisation and sensory integration. [more]
Media
12 really essential Qualities
This book uses ‘12 essential qualities’, or values, to go on a journey in parenting children. The author encourages us to firstly look at the habit patterns we have, both of word and deed, and how appropriate they are and, where necessary, to transform these in order to create a world that is more nurturing for the children in our care and as a result of these changes less stressful for us. [more]
Editorial
Support mania
No question: of course we want to help and support every child. It is our firm belief that every child can do it! And if a child cannot yet do something, then we will help them with all the educational expertise at our disposal to reveal their still hidden skills. [more]
Young writers
“I never fell in love with a chimpanzee”
Anna Luna Scheibe in conversation with the primatologist Jane Goodall. [more]
Waldorf worldwide
Waldorf in Vietnam. The decolonisation of the Waldorf cultural contribution
Now that Waldorf education has spread throughout the world, the time has come for the different countries to associate their own culture with Waldorf education. Its understanding of the human being must be seen in the context of the specific culture. Let us take a look at Vietnam. [more]
Living Teachers
The man from Gando
The internationally respected architect Francis Kéré is building a Waldorf school. [more]
The art of the pendulum
The line between challenging and overtaxing a child, between support and demanding too little is not easy to recognise and often fluid. At the teacher training seminar, a teacher can absorb the ideal of teaching individually and not tar all the children with the same brush. But really seeing the difference in the children is an art which has to be learnt, an art of attentiveness. Attentiveness is the gold of the future. How can we obtain the skill to be aware what is a challenge and what is overtaxing? [more]
Children learn of their own accord – if allowed to do so
The subject of learning support is on the agenda in all Waldorf schools. Additional learning support teachers are employed, learning support plans for various children and classes are developed, and additional therapy is offered. Here it is mostly a case of remedying certain learning and other deficits frequently identified as part of the so-called class 2 examination. [more]
How do I support my child in school?
Parents can go the wrong way about supporting their children. [more]
Publisher's View
Good news
It happens – rarely, but not never – that an article in Erziehungskunst really annoys me. That includes an interview with Daniele Ganser which was published in 2016 shortly after I had had cause to warn the Waldorf schools against inviting “any old conspiracy theorists” and instead appealed for well-founded social studies lessons. [more]
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