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Keep developing. Initial findings of the WEIDE study
A comprehensive survey of Waldorf parents was undertaken for the first time in 2015; 117 schools and 3,685 parents participated. The results have now been released and an academic publication is planned for 2017. We asked professors Steffen Koolmann and Lars Petersen from Alanus University, who carried out the study together with Petra Ehler, about the most important findings. [more]
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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]
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Creating a future for Palestinian children
Waldorf initiatives in the Arab world are rare. The initiative started by the German political scientist Wiebke Eden-Fleig in Beirut is thus all the more remarkable. Since last autumn, a kindergarten has started in the Shatila Palestinian refugees camp which works on the basis of Waldorf education. NNA spoke with its founder. [more]
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Benefitting from resistance
Teachers and pre-school teachers from 51 countries met at the Goetheanum. [more]
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Class teachers worldwide. First results of a survey
The International Conference of the Waldorf movement has set itself the topic of the class teacher. Rudolf Steiner considered it particularly important that one class teacher should look after a class for as long as possible. [more]
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100 years of anthroposophical art
The exhibition Aenigma – A hundred years of anthroposophic art at the Halle Museum of Modern Art shows works by more than 125 artists. There has never before been such a panorama. [more]
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Waldorf school in an Indian reservation. With the Lakota in Pine Ridge
There has been a Waldorf kindergarten with a Waldorf school in Pine Ridge, the second largest Indian reservation in the USA, since the 1990s. The land is extreme, the conditions are extreme under which the Lakota people fight for a decent living. [more]
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Between war and school. Waldorf education in Ukraine
Waldorf education gained a foothold in Ukraine twenty years ago. Elena Killge, who comes from Kiev, reports about how the Waldorf schools began in this now war-torn country. [more]
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Do we have to change the system or ourselves? A Dornach conference
Human development occurs not in a linear fashion but in phases and metamorphoses. Do we have to reorganise school to do justice to these metamorphoses? Or do we have to learn to transform ourselves with the child and adolescent? The international education conference “Transitions” has caused the author to ask some basic questions. [more]
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School social work at the Berner Oberland Rudolf Steiner School
School is a place to communicate values and form protective layers. Their tasks keep growing. Teachers alone are hardly able to manage them any longer. The Berner Oberland Rudolf Steiner School took action and has integrated school social work as a firm part of school life. [more]
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