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Doing what’s necessary. Biography rescues the founder of the first Waldorf school, Emil Molt, from obscurity
There would be no Waldorf schools without the entrepreneur Emil Molt (1876-1936). Through his activities he preserved the “spirit” of the Waldorf school and became the real founder of a worldwide school movement. It was Molt who asked Rudolf Steiner to take over as educational director of a school for the children of his workers. In doing so, Molt risked everything – and almost lost everything. [more]
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Brainy brain structures
Brain research is currently booming and has become the new faith. Wherever the prophets of this new revelation appear – on television, in lecture halls, in books or newspaper interviews – they can expect a large audience and a community of believers. But is what they reveal to us tenable? [more]
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Generation porno?
Let me say one thing in advance: my favourite educational themes are others! But as a teacher I stumble across the subject of pornography and sexuality in school almost on a weekly basis. [more]
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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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Frustrated but proud. Uprising of Arab youth
Julia Gerlach, a freelance correspondent in Cairo, read from her new book Wir wollen Freiheit. Der Aufstand der arabischen Jugend (We want freedom. The uprising of Arab youth) at the Free Waldorf School in Kiel. Thomas Müller-Tiburtius, upper school teacher of history and English, asked her about the Arab Spring and its consequences. The interview was conducted before the most recent unrest in Egypt and relates to the transformation in the Arab world in 2011, which has now continued in 2012. [more]
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Occupy Mammon. The end of the competitive economy
The worldwide actions in the crises of the present time show that increasing numbers of young people want to take responsibility for economic and political events. All people in the world community are dependent on one another by destiny. Social imagination and competence is in demand to restructure conditions on the basis of solidarity. [more]
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