editorial

Angelika Lonnemann

Waldorf teachers urgently needed

What is it that makes a Waldorf school special? The special architecture? The smell of wood and beeswax in the classroom? The felted dolls on the…
What is it that makes a Waldorf school special? The special architecture? The smell of wood and beeswax in the classroom? The felted dolls on the seasonal table?
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Angelika Lonnemann

School must be a safe place

I will never forget what it was like when my ten-year-old son came home from school, crying and unable to tell me for many hours what dramatic thing…
I will never forget what it was like when my ten-year-old son came home from school, crying and unable to tell me for many hours what dramatic thing had happened at school. Terrible images went through my mind at that time!
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Angelika Lonnemann

Natural and artificial intelligence

I simply gave it a try. I created an account at open.ai and a few clicks later found myself in dialogue with Chat-GPT, that artificial intelligence…
I simply gave it a try. I created an account at open.ai and a few clicks later found myself in dialogue with Chat-GPT, that artificial intelligence (AI) that can do homework and pass school-leaving exams.
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Angelika Lonnemann

Come on in!

When I first came to Wagenburgstraße in Stuttgart and saw the house with the number 6, I was very surprised about how small the house is where the…
When I first came to Wagenburgstraße in Stuttgart and saw the house with the number 6, I was very surprised about how small the house is where the German Association of Waldorf Schools (BdFWS) has its home.
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Platzhalter
Angelika Lonnemann

Waldorf Diversity

When I took my youngest daughter to kindergarten for the first time, two girls, about four years old, came running up, pointed at her and called out,…
When I took my youngest daughter to kindergarten for the first time, two girls, about four years old, came running up, pointed at her and called out, "We will never let you play with us!" My maternal heart bled. A short time later, another, older…
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Angelika Lonnemann

Accompanying growing up

In the summer of 1914, there were unusual protests in Great Britain: women fighting for suffrage and equality went for works of art with meat cleavers…
In the summer of 1914, there were unusual protests in Great Britain: women fighting for suffrage and equality went for works of art with meat cleavers and hammers. Four years later, they were granted the right to vote (at first only wealthy women…
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Angelika Lonnemann

Images that bear messages

With children in the house, the period from mid-November onwards is a comparatively restless time of the year. Making and filling Advent calendars,…
With children in the house, the period from mid-November onwards is a comparatively restless time of the year. Making and filling Advent calendars, baking biscuits, preparing St Nicholas rituals, cooking for the bazaar at the Waldorf School,…
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Angelika Lonnemann

Waldorf schools: no place for Nazis!

Some people who are politically far on the right believe that Waldorf schools are the right schools for their children. Or that they are the right…
Some people who are politically far on the right believe that Waldorf schools are the right schools for their children. Or that they are the right places where they can work unimpeded as people with right-wing convictions.
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Angelika Lonnemann

Using smartphones as humans should

What would you do if you had to prepare a presentation for school on Sophie Scholl? In the past, libraries were the only knowledge exchanges where you…
What would you do if you had to prepare a presentation for school on Sophie Scholl? In the past, libraries were the only knowledge exchanges where you could get information from books. Today, Google lists over nine million results when you type in…
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Angelika Lonnemann

Do you speak Waldorfish?

For those who do not come from anthroposophical families or who did not go to a Waldorf school themselves, many terms used at Waldorf schools are, to…
For those who do not come from anthroposophical families or who did not go to a Waldorf school themselves, many terms used at Waldorf schools are, to begin with, vocabulary in a foreign language that has to be learned. Here, for example, words like…
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