Cream topping or existential basis? Waldorf education and art
100 years of Waldorf education! This grand anniversary in 2019 will look at the founding motivation for initiating a comprehensive cultural impulse with the Waldorf school. What does that mean in relation to today? What must happen for an idea to turn into an impulse? [more]
The main lesson as a work of art
Main lessons are one of the particular features of Waldorf education. For several weeks a class deals with a subject which is worked through with the teacher from all different aspects. A main lesson is all the more successful the more the lesson turns into art. [more]
Publisher's View
Daughter of freedom
In 1819 the Swiss educator and social reformer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi wrote to James Pierrepont Greaves, a British educator, socialist and mystic: “I need not remind you of the importance of music because it is able to generate and support the highest feelings of which human beings are capable.” [more]
Early childhood
Learning to grasp the body
When there is talk about education in early childhood it can make us wince inwardly because what is meant by that is early learning. People talks about “support” in a well-meaning way. [more]
Waldorf worldwide
How children thrive. International Early Childhood Conference in Dornach
“The human being should affirm the world!” Florian Osswald exclaims, encapsulating the objectives of Waldorf education in a single sentence. [more]
Editorial
Who’s actually learning here?
For us, parents and teachers, the wellbeing of our children is the most important thing: that they should be able to develop in accordance with the talents they bring with them, their own individual possibilities – and not in accordance with ours. [more]
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