Spotlight, Waldorf sustainability
The virus: war and peace. Notes on corona
“Nous sommes en guerre!” We are at war – the words of the French president in his address to the nation summon up resistance, literally. What we need now is empathy, solidarity and responsibility says the German chancellor in her speech. Both are probably true. Yet the enemy is invisible, lives within us. [more]
Spotlight, Truth and Lie
Not playing along anymore
It is striking: the two people who on a global “hero ranking” probably occupy the top places could at first sight not be more different. [more]
Spotlight, Getting digitalised
Goodbye Michael House School. The second English Waldorf school closes
The second oldest Waldorf school in the heart of England between Derby and Nottingham will stop operating at the end of the school year. The decision, taken by the school’s trustees with a heavy heart, was notified on its website on 1 March 2019. [more]
Spotlight, Trust
Education to freedom in digital change
We live today not just in a world of digital devices, we also increasingly live in a digital world. This world is more and more experienced as actual primary life in contrast to our urban or natural environment. [more]
Spotlight, Meditation
1968: impulses and consequences
It is fifty years since the 1968 movement: in the retrospectives which can be found to celebrate this anniversary in the various media the assessments are highly controversial. If some see it as the great emancipatory start into a better world, others speak at the extreme end of the spectrum of the uprising of unworldly and mislead “do-gooders” – with a socially destructive effect which has lasted to the present day. [more]
Spotlight, Meditation
Transhumanism – the end of the human being?
An unusual conference took place at the Goetheanum from 7-9 September: a cultural conference on the subject of the transhumanist vision of the future. Unusual not just because of the location where it was held, but also because speakers spoke about this highly relevant subject whose fields of work could not be more different. [more]
Spotlight, Pure Garments
Cursive handwriting belongs in class 1
A response to the article “One step at a time. An experience report on introducing cursive handwriting” by Ludger Helming-Jacoby, Erziehungskunst 11/2018. [more]
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Children need a private life!
“Have we got off now, Mum?” – “Yes.” – “Two days?” – “Two days and this afternoon.” The shoes fly off, followed by the clothes. [more]
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Young people online
Twenty-first century lifeworlds between digitalisation and sensory integration. [more]
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Removing the stain of esotericism
With meanwhile more than a thousand schools, Waldorf education can now be counted as one of the most successful movements within the context of so-called progressive education. Despite this fact it remained ignored by academic education studies for decades. [more]
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