Discovery, Discourse, Diversity

Erziehungskunst

As 2025 draws to a close, Melbourne Rudolf Steiner Seminar launched the inaugural edition of Seminar Conversations, a publication for Steiner / Waldorf teachers and the school community.

The conference 100 Years of Waldorf Early Childhood in North America will take place from February 6th to the 8th, 2026 in Spring Valley, NY. Registration opens December 15th.

In an age when most students can type faster than they can write, it’s easy to wonder whether learning handwriting and cursive is still relevant. Yet a growing body of neuroscience suggests these «old-fashioned» skills are anything but obsolete.…

Creating, implementing, and sustaining a feedback culture: Bringing your leadership team to the next level of collaboration and performance.

A conference open to anyone working out of the creative impulse of Waldorf education – teachers, school leaders, support staff, parents, partners, ...

Mumbulla School for Rudolf Steiner Education in New South Wales, Australia, has announced the awarding of its second full financial scholarship, supporting a new Kindergarten student starting in 2026.

Interested in becoming a trained Waldorf teacher or know someone who is curious about Waldorf education? Then this online event on November 3rd is for you.

Balancing Outer Awareness and Inner Resilience: The Link Between First-Grade Readiness and Pubertal Well-Being with Adam Blanning, M.D. on November 17th, 2025.

The Waldorf Movement Worldwide

1 million

Students

40,000

Teachers

1,270

Schools

80

Countries

Daniela von Pfuhlstein,

Aaron Crook won the 6633 Arctic Ultra, a 620-kilometer ultramarathon through the Arctic Circle in northwestern Canada. Crook, a former Waldorf student, raised money for young people with mental health issues during this extreme challenge. He spoke to…

Our author is a mathematics and science teacher at the Freie Waldorfschule Magdeburg. He recently returned to Germany from China and views the Waldorf world with the benevolent gaze of someone who is familiar with different cultures.

Susanne Bregenzer,

Are we turning our children into outsiders by not giving them smartphones? Or are we protecting them from loneliness disguised as an infinitely large virtual circle of friends? Our author does not take a definitive stance, but instead proposes a…

Dil Maya Adhikari,

At the Tashi Waldorf School in Nepal, children and young people from Hindu, Buddhist, and Christian backgrounds learn together. Our author Dil Maya Adhikari reports on how the school manages to give each religion its own space without imposing…

Albert Schmelzer,

In most Waldorf schools, it is customary to separate children and young people for religious education according to their religious affiliation and to have them taught by different teachers. Our author explains why the Intercultural Waldorf School in…

Angelika Lonnemann,

People have apparently always been prone to lying, cheating, abusing power, and violence. That is why, around 3,000 years ago, Moses had to establish rules that everyone should follow. Buddhism also has ten basic rules, and Islam has five. Despite…

Matthias Nikolaus Eckstaedt,

Our author spent a year doing voluntary service at a social institution in the Colombian capital Bogotá. He worked at the Corporación Educativa y Social (CES) Waldorf, located in a neighborhood in the south of the city that is marked by conflict and…

It lies between rolling hills and seemingly endless grasslands in southwestern South Dakota: the Lakota Waldorf School (LWS). Our author tells how the only indigenous Waldorf school in the USA has become an example of social and cultural renewal for…

Ann-Katrin Neundorf,

Political scientist and mediator Christine Laude wrote the brochure «Bullying and Cyberbullying – Invisible Violence» for the Bund der Freien Waldorfschulen (Association of Waldorf Schools Germany). She spoke to Erziehungskunst about the complexity…

Gabriele Ebeling,

You don't always have to travel far away to experience something special. It can also be possible in your own neighborhood if you simply change your perspective. Our author spent seven hours walking through her hometown at night with her ninth-grade…

At most Waldorf schools, formal craft lessons only begin in fifth or sixth grade. Our authors advocate an earlier start to crafting and refer to Rudolf Steiner.

Jürgen Beckmerhagen,

At the Freie Waldorfschule Frankfurt/Oder, computer science teacher Sören Leonhardt shows his upper school students how they can rethink technology and the future – beyond formulas and dry programming. In a region where some young people are hopeless…

Jürgen Beckmerhagen,

Geometric shapes, AI and the creativity of young people and trained musicians – these are the components of a project in Potsdam that has resulted in a unique symphony. Classes six and seven from the Freie Waldorfschule Werder/Havel also helped…

Jürgen Beckmerhagen,

«Do atoms really exist?» This question makes you pause and think. In an innovative project, a physicist and a chemist open up new paths to understanding atoms for students and teachers. Using modern technology, they immerse themselves in the world of…

We share our earth with all the other people who live on it, and we only have this one. Class teacher Nina Luckner wants to convey this to her students. To do this, she combined four subjects and, among other things, built globes out of balloons and…

Our author Luka Mescher never had any contact with people with disabilities – until he completed a social internship during eleventh grade. Luka deliberately chose a workshop for people with disabilities because he «wanted to experience something…

Angelika Lonnemann,

In the lower and middle school at Waldorf schools, learning takes place in the protected space of the school. Skills are tested, tried out and practiced in the safety of the classroom. In the upper school, from ninth grade onwards, students are sent…

Angelika Lonnemann,

In the Kant anniversary year – but not only then – it is nice to remind ourselves of the questions from which Immanuel Kant developed his philosophy: «What can I know? What should I do? What can I hope for? What is man?» The questions remain…

Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation

Susanne Bregenzer,

Raising one's own children to be peaceful inhabitants of the world – many parents see this as an important task. Is this even possible in the face of our own countless inner demons, and in this violent and torn world to boot? On a Tuesday morning,…

Miriam Margareta Gimm,

These are dangerous times for good soil: more and more land is being built on or is threatened by erosion. In Germany alone, an area the size of 90 soccer fields is sealed every day. Yet soils are the focus of many of the United Nations' explicit…

Renee Herrnkind,

It was ridiculed for a long time, repeatedly defamed as esoteric nonsense and yet became the blueprint for organic farming, which has long been regarded worldwide as a sustainable model for healthy nutrition: the Demeter biodynamic farming method.…

Angelika Lonnemann,

For several years, our family was part of a car pool for Demeter milk. Once a month, we drove to the Birkmeier farm in Pöttmes by car, tapped 40 to 50 liters of milk there and brought the healthy cargo to the Waldorf school, where the other families…

Noor Khatib-Thorn,

«What if I would have been on the other side?» Noor Khatib-Thorn asked herself this question as a little girl in Jerusalem. Today, she is an English teacher at the Intercultural Waldorf School in Mannheim. In her lessons, the woman with Palestinian…

Petra Mühlenbrock,

Why is the class eight play part of the Waldorf curriculum? Our author, a teacher, explains based on the example of Michael Ende's Momo which she performed with her class, which processes are tiggered by such a large stage project and how they enable…

Hiltrud Kamolz,

As one of the oldest crafts in the world, basket weaving is an integral part of the ninth grade curriculum. However, tradition alone is not enough to justify its existence. In her article, our author Hiltrud Kamolz explains how adolescents come into…

Jürgen Beckmerhagen,

Pupils at a Hamburg Waldorf school immerse themselves in Russian lessons. In doing so, they not only discover a new language, but also valuable lessons about tolerance and respect. Our author explains how learning a language can become a commitment…

Jürgen Beckmerhagen,

As part of his year project, 17-year-old Waldorf pupil Ilian Rosenbruch launched a weather balloon he had built himself into the stratosphere to explore the secrets of the weather. However, the launch brings more challenges than expected: official…

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