Spotlight, Educate for peace
School autonomy. Education between self-organisation and external control
School autonomy – this former motto of school reform seems to have turned into a simple concept of control and heteronomy. While the original idea was to give schools freedom of choice, e.g. in the use of financial resources as a basis for productive educational action, something quite different can be observed today: schools have been forced to submit “autonomously” to the paradigm of standardisation, evaluation and accountability. This development is increasingly spreading to independent schools. [more]
Spotlight, Rethinking curriculum
Online grooming
Online grooming is increasingly entering the public consciousness but the term doesn’t always mean a great deal to a lot of people. [more]
Spotlight, Generations
The technological Sphinx
There are enviable strokes of luck in publishing: the comprehensive and very readable book by the Stuttgart media teacher Edwin Hübner – Menschlicher Geist und Künstliche Intelligenz. Die Entwicklung des Humanen inmitten einer digitalen Welt (Stuttgart 2020) – was published just in time for the outbreak of the pandemic, even though it is the fruit of decades of reflection. [more]
Spotlight, Rhythm of life
I in the digital sphere?
I encounter a fellow human being. I perceive them as an other, a foreign self, but also equally as a being endowed with a self as much I am. This elementary perception of the foreign I happens instantly and goes beyond gestures, sounds, words, images and thoughts. Without this happening, an encounter would not be human in the true sense of the word. [more]
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No life in freedom and dignity without risks
Interview with Michaela Glöckler, paediatrician and former head of the Medical Section at the Goetheanum. [more]
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We take it very seriously
Interview with Henning Kullak-Ublick, board member and spokesperson of the German Association of Waldorf Schools, about racist tendencies in society, the Waldorf schools and in the work of Rudolf Steiner. [more]
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The inexhaustible source of humanity
Interview with Henning Kullak-Ublick, board member and spokesperson of the German Association of Waldorf Schools. [more]
Spotlight, It sings and sounds
Anthroposophy and right-wing extremism? The conduct of the Waldorf schools in the “Third Reich”
After the demonstration against the coronavirus measures in Berlin on 29 August 2020, various magazine articles appeared once again accusing anthroposophy and Waldorf schools of being close to right-wing extremism. [more]
Spotlight, Magic of beginning
About coronavirus
The transformation of our lifeworld through human beings and the retroactive effect on humans. [more]
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