editorial

Ausgabe 03/25

Forms in the classroom

If parents did not attend a Waldorf school themselves as children, they will discover a number of unknown things in their children's everyday school life. A subject called form drawing!

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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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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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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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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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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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I'm going to take this in hand!

What does Waldorf education have to do with the early human being? Gesture and language, hand and word – they are interconnected, in human development…
What does Waldorf education have to do with the early human being? Gesture and language, hand and word – they are interconnected, in human development as well as in the learning process of the child. Waldorf education focuses on the connection…
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How can Waldorf schools be made better?

Is a good Waldorf school the one where as many pupils as possible graduate with a good university entrance qualification? Or is a good Waldorf school…
Is a good Waldorf school the one where as many pupils as possible graduate with a good university entrance qualification? Or is a good Waldorf school the one where all the pupils have learned blacksmithing, basket weaving and crocheting?
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Freedom and responsibility share the same attitude

A few years ago, a play was performed at my son's school in which the two slaves diabetes and hepatitis talked about freedom. While one wanted nothing…
A few years ago, a play was performed at my son's school in which the two slaves diabetes and hepatitis talked about freedom. While one wanted nothing more than to finally be the master of his own life, the other was scared to death of life outside…
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Waldorf helps the Ukraine!

For the dead, for the dying, for those who grieve and for those who are fleeing, war represents the end of all plans. War only creates victims – among…
For the dead, for the dying, for those who grieve and for those who are fleeing, war represents the end of all plans. War only creates victims – among adults and especially among children.
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Responding to climate change in an energetical and creative way

My daughter's boyfriend would «rather not have children one day» because he is afraid that these children would have to live in a future that would be…
My daughter's boyfriend would «rather not have children one day» because he is afraid that these children would have to live in a future that would be terrible due to climate change: water scarcity, collapsing mountains, floods, tornadoes, submerged…
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