Discovery, Discourse, Diversity

Erziehungskunst

On April 16, 2025, during the International High School Conference in Kassel, the Modern Teacher team hosted the final of 60 weekly sessions of “Waldorf 360: Global High School Network”. The initiative was born out of a breaktime conversation at the…

The Alliance for Public Waldorf Education will host an online event in July.

OASA, the Online Academy for Social Art, is an online hub for accessible webinars that bring people together across Africa and various time zones.

The Australian Newcastle Waldorf school hosts teachers and class ten students from Manyuan Hangzhou Waldorf School in China, supported by the Beijing Depu Cultural Exchange.

International conference and workshop to take place in Kassel from April 12th to the 17th.

In this workshop, we will use theories of the archetypes from analytic psychology to shine a new light on Steiner’s indications for a story-based developmental curriculum. We will take a courageous look at the historical and social contexts for those…

Neurodiversity is a popular word in education right now. Virtually all children are facing challenges which may hinder their learning. Join us to experience things to do with your whole class which may be targeted for individuals and are also very…

Steiner Education Australia launched a podcast series. Steiner Voices will be a forum for some of the varied voices of Steiner school communities and their people around the country, of teachers, parents and students.

The Waldorf Movement Worldwide

1 million

Students

40,000

Teachers

1,270

Schools

80

Countries

Arefeh Rezvanmanesh,

At the beginning, there wasn’t even a toilet—just mulberry trees and grapevines. Today, the «Garden of Childhood» in Iran has become a second home for a hundred people. Our author recounts its development.

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…

Angelika Schmitt,

Our author is the director of the Rudolf Steiner Archives in Dornach. Here she explores Rudolf Steiner's concept of love. Steiner understands love as a creative force and links it to thinking and cognition. He emphasizes the intuitive nature of…

Anne Brockmann,

Education only succeeds through relationships. In other words, relationships are the basis of all education. But how do teachers get into a relationship with the children and young people entrusted to them and what does an appropriate relationship…

Angelika Lonnemann,

What does love have to do with Waldorf education? When one of my children transferred from a state school to a Waldorf school and her school experience there was completely different from before, I had the impression that teachers at the Waldorf…

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.

The Pädagogische Forschungsstelle (Pedagogical Research Center) at the Bund der Freien Waldorfschulen (Association of Waldorf Schools Germany) has completely revised its website and now offers a platform that is specially tailored to the needs of…

Elisa Weinkötz,

Elisa Weinkötz is a German teacher in the upper school. She reads everything that has been read at Waldorf schools for decades, from the Song of the Nibelungs to Faust, with her students. She enjoys doing this, but she wonders what else is important…

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…

Jürgen Peters,

What is the state of resilience among teachers at Waldorf schools? This was the subject of a study conducted by Alanus University around ten years ago. Our author Jürgen Peters outlines the results and relates them to the current situation.

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